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On May 31, IDACA staff, Mr. Hiroshi Akutsu, gave a lecture on traceability activities in agricultural cooperatives in Japan at Visayas State University in the Philippines as part of a human resource development program organized by the ASEAN Secretariat.

In addition to the lecture, a workshop was also held, and about 60 students deepened their understanding of the agricultural cooperative system in Japan.

On May 15, 2024, IDACA training coordinator Mr. Toru Nakashima gave a lecture on “Agricultural Cooperatives and Rice Production and Supply in Japan” to five government officers from Senegal at the JICA Tokyo Center in response to a JICA training request from Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.

The lecture focused on the development of Japanese agriculture and the characteristics of agricultural cooperatives.

The participants commented that "the Japanese agricultural cooperative system is an excellent model that they would like to refer to in their own country”. The training program is organized from May 14 to 25, and the participants will visit Niigata Prefecture for on-site training to inspect rice production sites in Japan.

The 2023 ICA/IDACA Follow-up Guidance and Survey was held in Kenya, on the African continent, for the first time since the establishment of IDACA, from April 8 to April 12, 2024. With the cooperation of the ICA Africa Regional Office in Kenya, we used a hybrid style combining in-person and online sessions, where trainees from Africa who have participated in ICA training courses over the past three years were asked to report on the progress of the action plans, they had developed.

Ms. Naomi Wanjiku Ngobe of the Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters (KCCE), whose Action Plan has been selected as a Best Practice, came to the ICA Africa office to present the progress of her Action Plan, which is now in its final stages. In addition, the following day, the ICA/IDACA team had the opportunity to visit her cooperative in person and observe its activities.