The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
The Japan Environmental Education Forum
Community waste management improvement project using waste-pickers in Khulna, Bangladesh - aiming to build environmentally-friendly and socially-considerate societies in South Asia
Activity grant
- Project Description
Waste management improvement project in Bangladesh using waste-pickers
This project aims to create a socially-considerate and environmentally-friendly society for waste-pickers in Khulna, Bangladesh. Specifically, this involves reducing social prejudice against these waste-pickers by including them as active participants together with local people in community waste management activities and promoting environmental education in regards to waste management, demonstrating that waste-pickers are a valuable waste management resource. With this activity , the project aims to improve community waste management in Khulna through cooperation between government, waste-pickers and local residents. [Project No. K15-0075]
- Fields
- Relationship between People and Society
- Grant year
- FY2015 Activity Grants
- Grant term
- 3 years
October 2015 - September 2018
- Grant amount
- 7,200,000 yen
- Activity region
- Khulna, Khulna District, Khulna Division, Bangladesh
Overview of the Organization
- Project organization
- The Japan Environmental Education Forum
- Representative
- Tadashi Kawashima, president
- Establishment
- 1992
- Establishment purpose
- In 1987, a national meeting was hosted by the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project from Kiyosato, Yamanashi, to discuss environmental education and the promotion of nature schools, and the Kiyosato Environmental Education Forum was established as a continuation of this meeting. In 1992, the Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF) was launched as a voluntary organization, and in 1997 it was incorporated as an organization under the Ministry of the Environment. In 2010 it made a new start as a public interest incorporated association based on the new Public Interest Incorporated Associations act.
- Recent activities
- JEEF is an NGO comprising a network of individuals involved in environmental education with the goals of 'promoting nature in schools', 'promoting environmental education', and 'supporting environmental education in developing countries'. Recently it has been expanding its range of activities, and is engaged in a broad scope of environmental education initiatives centered on nature experiences with the aim of creating a sustainable society. Specific activities include cultivating people who can lead nature experiences, implementing initiatives in collaboration with companies, making government recommendations, and supporting environmental education internationally.
- Staff
- 15 full-time members
- WEB site
- http://www.jeef.or.jp
- Representatives comment
- We aim to improve life for waste-pickers in Khulna by reducing discrimination and prejudice rooted in dealing with waste, and hope to create a model case for effective waste management through cooperation between government, local people, and waste-pickers.