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Kenan Institute Asia (Kenan), the operational name for the Kenan Foundation Asia, is a leading Thailand based non-profit organization which serves the sustainable development needs of the Greater Mekong Subregion (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand,Yunnan Province in southern China), and Vietnam. Founded in 1996, Kenan works to address the challenges facing South East Asia through free enterprise mechanisms, boundary-spanning partnerships and expertise gained through practical development experience. The organization specializes in designing, managing and implementing programs in five main areas: public health; youth development and innovative education; entrepreneurship; sustainable tourism; business and economic development; and Corporate Social Responsibility. ==History== Evolving from a project funded by theUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Thailand, Kenan was founded in 1996 with an endowment provided by USAID, the Thai government, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, part of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun serving as the founding chairman, the Institute initially focused on fostering development partnerships between U.S. and Thai organizations based on the belief that challenges facing South East Asia could best be addressed through free enterprise mechanisms, boundary-spanning partnerships and expertise gained through practical development experience. Within its first few months of its existence, Kenan was faced with responding to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It did so through the American Corporations for Thailand (ACT) Program, launched in 1998 chaired by former Prime Minister of Thailand and the then-current Kenan chairman Mr. Anand Panyarachun and Dr. Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State. The project worked with major U.S. companies in Thailand to support human resource development, retraining those left unemployed by the crisis. Ten donor companies and organizations contributed US $1.1 million for ACT’s first three years. The donors provided another $700,00 for the project in 2001 to expand the program to include secondary and environmental education. In total, ACT awarded over 50 grants on a competitive basis to Thai universities, non-profit and government training organizations throughout the country, training approximately 700 trainers and 2,700 trainees.〔Jiravisitkul, Jarusri. "American Corporations for Thailand Program: Combined Corporate Action for Human Resource Development". Asian Development Bank In 1999 the U.S. government provided Kenan with a cost-shared grant for a program of economic recovery and reform for Thailand called "Accelerating Economic Recovery in Asia" (AERA) as part of the Thailand Competitiveness Initiative, with a specific focus on development of cluster competitiveness.〔USAID. "Final Report: Thailand Competitiveness Initiative- Accelerating Economic Recovery in Asia." < http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACG139.pdf>〕 The project had three objectives: 1) creating and saving jobs, 2) improving the targeting and coverage of safety nets, and 3) improving economic governance. The institute worked towards these goals through technical assistance and training complementing ongoing structural adjustment loans funded by the International Monetary Fund or multilateral development banks. Partnering with a wide variety of local organizations, the program had significant impact, particularly in the areas of competitiveness, economic governance, financial and corporate debt restructuring.〔USAID. "ANE Regional Activities: Activity Data Sheet". 29 May 2002〕 The program was renewed several times to implement projects that ranged from cross-border public health cooperation to trade capacity building for small companies. By the time it was concluded in 2008, AERA had supported development projects with more than $25 million in USAID funds along with more than an equal amount of cash and in-kind donations made by the Thai government and other Thai organizations. When the 2004 tsunami devastated the coast of southern Thailand, Kenan implemented the Tsunami Recovery Action Initiative (TRAI), with core funding provided by the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust and the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise along with a variety of smaller donors. With program funding continuing into 2010, TRAI implemented sustainable development based on environmentally and socially friendly tourism. It worked with local government, villages and professional associations to help local people make decisions on the type of tourism they wanted to see thrive. It helped local communities develop the capacity to plan and implement small eco-tourism businesses and to protect the seashore and forest environments that were the main tourism attraction in the area. Total funding, from a variety of donors totaled more than $2 million. Today, Kenan’s team of professionals draws upon the expertise and experience gained over more than a decade of activities to support sustainable development throughout Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenan Institute Asia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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