International co-creation and innovation project

Hokkaido University

Summer Institute 2024

Hironori Sasada

sasada@oia.hokudai.ac.jp

Lec. 7-8: Final presentation

• Solution proposal

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• Conclusion

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• Final report

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• Final presentation

Solution proposal

• How do you plan to achieve your goals?
• Policy tools, measures
• Main actor: gov, NGOs, corporations, communities, etc.

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• Attainability
• How realistic is the proposal?
• Enough resources?

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• Show an example
• Application of your approach to an actual case
• Specific information, goals, solutions

Conclusion: Your assessment of the plan

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• Benefits from the reform
• Positive/negative impacts on other areas
• Obstacles
• Trade offs
• E.g., Minimum wage ⇔ employment rate
• Adverse effects
• Possible backlash, oppositions
• Who would disagree? Why?
• How would you cope with them?

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• Limits
• What can or cannot be done?
• Who is left out?

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Poverty

Politics

Economy

Education

Environment

Culture

Community

Crime rate

Natural disaster

Family value

Discrimination

Recession

Civil war

Exploitation

Corruption

Religion

Shortage of schools, teachers

Social division

Epidemic

Welfare policy

Poverty among single mothers in Japan

• Current situation
• Poverty rate: 50.9% percent (2019)
• Ave. income 3.4 million yen: less than half of married couple (8.1 mil)
• Root causes
• Limited career opportunity (non-regular employment: 52%)
• Welfare system (lack of childcare support)
• Goal setting
• Improve regular employment rate to 70%
• Childcare for all single parents at no cost

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Timeline: 5 years

Poverty among single mothers in Japan

• Solutions
• Main actor: Government [Ministry of Health and Labor]
• Subsidies to companies that employ single parent with regular contract
• Mandate childcare centers to give priority to single parents, reform in requirements

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• Conclusion
• Obstacles: Prejudice against single mothers
• Limits: Difficulties in urban areas
• Benefits: Improvements in labor shortage, fertility rate, gender equality

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Assessment of presentation (rubric)

• Clarity of explanations

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• Quality of research

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• Compelling argument

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• Presentation skills

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Some heads-up's

• Be aware of time limit: 20 min

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• Avoid redundancy, cut irrelevant information

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• From a big picture to details

Peer review at the final presentation

Final presentation

Presentation (20 min)

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• Introduction
• Current situation
• Root causes
• Goal-setting
• Solution proposal
• Conclusion

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Timetable

Group work -12:00

Lunch 12:00-13:00

Group work 13:00-14:00

Presentation 14:00-

Final report

• Due Sep 5^th
• Two topics
• Word limit: 700 words each
• Google form in the course website

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• How did the class advance your understanding of SDGs?

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• What did you learn from the group work?
• How did your groupmates help you?
• What difficulties did you face? How did you overcome them?

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