The Value Frontier provides the following services.Please feel free to contact us for any business consultation, question, or comment.
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1.Consultations on international cooperation projects
Governments, private firms, and NGOs/NPOs as members of international society play important roles in various international cooperation projects in developing countries. There are, eports orunfortunately, projects that do not have any effects and sustainability due to many reasons, while there are ones that have significant effects and sustainability. The Value Frontier provides the following services in a way to assure effects and sustainability of international cooperation projects that are implemented in developing countries.
Planning on sustainable international cooperation projects
To make international cooperation projects effective and sustainable, the Value Frontier provides technical and local know-how at the stage of planning based on information that is obtained from new research results around the world and human network over 80 countries. The Value Frontier also provides at the stage of implementation, on behalf of executing entities, total management of international cooperation projects in a way to assure effects and sustainability.
Evaluation of international cooperation projects　
The Value Frontier examines current and future prospect of effects and sustainability of international cooperation projects in developing countries through e.g. mid-term and ex-post evaluation, and then draws practical lessons and recommendations which are useful both in the concerned projects and the planning of similar projects in the future.
2. Climate Change Consultation
Climate change is gaining ever growing global attention in recent years. In the international context, the developed countries are constitutionalizing laws to reduce GHGs through the framework of Kyoto Protocol. Some major studies suggest that the developed countries must reduce their GHGs emissions by more than 50% to avoid serious climatic changes, which is far beyond the Kyoto targets. The Value Frontier provides to promote actions against global warming the following services, in the context of international and domestic projects.
Research on Clean Development Mechanism Projects
In order to ensure the long-term benefit for the host counties of CDM, it is vital to plan and implement projects with high sustainability from the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. It is also important to monitor and evaluate them. The Value Frontier conducts researches on the planning and evaluation of the CDM projects, as well as the related policies and frameworks.
Consultation on GHG (CO2) reduction
The GHG emissions have been increasing in Japan, especially in sectors such as transportation, services, and households. The Value Frontier puts a particular focus on service sector, where there is still a great potential for reduction as a whole.
3. Policy research and translation (English-Japanese/Japanese-English)
The Value Frontier conducts study and reserch for policies related to sustainable development, speicalized in environment and energy economics, water supply and sanitation, integrated water resources management. We also provide translation services for related academic, technical papers.
4. Educational contents development
The Value Frontier develops educational contents of environment and development that comprise a mixture of text, movies and web for the use of on-line as well as field seminars.
