STePP Industrial Vocational Training Programme in Africa and Asia

Transferring Japan’s sustainable technology to Africa and Asia

UNIDO ITPO Tokyo has launched the “Industrial Vocational Training Programme in Africa and Asia through Technology Transfer from Japan”, funded by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The programme aims to provide training to local engineers and technicians in Africa and Asia (India, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa, Morocco) on technologies from Japanese companies that contribute to sustainable development and disseminate the newly acquired knowledge within their home countries.

Be-A Japan, Ebara Corporation, ITOCHU Corporation, Hinode Sangyo Co., Ltd., Kaiho Industry Co., Ltd, SPEC Company Limited, Tromso Co., Ltd, CHUWA Industrial Co, Ltd, Mebiol Inc. were selected as the 9 companies to cooperate in this programme. The participating companies were chosen from the companies that have registered their technologies onto UNIDO ITPO Tokyo’s “Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform (STePP)”.

Schedule

The project period is from May 2023 to December 2025, and will be implemented in two major phases.

In Phase 1, instructors from the four countries are invited to Japan, where each selected company conducts training-of-trainers (ToT) activities relevant to their technology.
In Phase 2, the instructors return to their home countries and share the skills they acquired in Japan with local engineers and technicians in their home countries.

List of target countries, technologies, and companies in this project

Country	Technology to be transferred	Company
India	Imec film farming	Mebiol Inc.
Uganda	Environmentally friendly automobile recycling technology	Kaiho Industry Co., Ltd.
Ethiopia	Female sanitary shorts sewing techniques	Be-A Japan ITOCHU Corporation
Ghana	Paving technology with soil hardening agent	SPEC COMPANY LIMITED
Kenya	Environmentally friendly automobile recycling technology	Kaiho Industry Co., Ltd.
Tanzania	Environmentally friendly automobile recycling technology	Kaiho Industry Co., Ltd.
Madagascar	Rice husk solid fuel production technology	Tromso Co., Ltd.
South Africa	Pump technology for sustainable water distribution	Ebara Corporation
Morocco	Decentralized wastewater treatment system with microbubble generators	Hinode Sangyo Co., Ltd.
Morocco	Waste management services using smokeless incinerator	CHUWA Industrial Co, Ltd.

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India		Uganda		Ethiopia		Ghana


Kenya		Tanzania		Madagascar		South Africa


Morocco

※Listed in order of Japanese alphabets