2024 Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 1-7
The establishment of Region Management Organizations (RMOs) has progressed in rural Japan. In order to establish an RMO, a coordinator is needed to stand between the local government official and the community leader and provide support. However, the lack of coordinators to set up RMOs has become a problem. This study focuses on the initial establishment of an RMO in the Meiji district of Taketa City, Oita Prefecture. It aimed to present a new hypothetical model that will enable the establishment of a resident-led organization, based on a case study of intermediary organization with young, inexperienced coordinator. Interview surveys were conducted on community leaders, the coordinators of intermediary organization, and local government official to clarify the mechanism by which human resource development and the establishment of an RMO can be carried out simultaneously. We showed that the capacity of the young coordinator and community leaders develops simultaneously. Additionally, expert coordinators' support was found to directly and indirectly influence the capacity growth of young coordinator and community leaders, respectively. Based on those finding, we have proposed a new hypothetical model for building an RMO in which community leaders, young coordinators, and expert coordinators repeat the Plan, Do, Check/ Support, Action cycle to learn from each other. The key to proceeding this model is that all concerned understand the young coordinators are still in training and development.