Category: JICA contributions

The last two members of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) mission to Moldova for the purpose of providing assistance to displaced persons in Ukraine and neighboring countries in the field of emergency humanitarian assistance and healthcare needs assessment returned to Japan on May 1, completing their field survey activities. The first survey team, which…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on May 4 in Colombo for the technical cooperation project “Capacity Building for Oil Spray Response for Marine Disaster Control and Marine Environment Protection The project is a technical cooperation project to…

JICA prepares and publishes annual project evaluation reports in order to publicize its project evaluation efforts and evaluation results in an easy-to-understand manner. The latest edition of the “Project Evaluation Annual Report 2021,” which summarizes the evaluation results for fiscal year 2021, is now available on the JICA website. © Source JICA Read More Auto…

Target 11.2 of SDG 2030 states that “By 2030, improve transport safety through, among other things, the expansion of public transport, with particular attention to the needs of vulnerable groups, women, children, persons with disabilities, and older persons, to provide all people with safe, affordable, easily accessible and sustainable transport Provide access to systems.” and…

JICA’s Sadako Ogata Peace and Development Institute publishes working papers on some of the results of research it is currently undertaking, with the aim of stimulating active discussion. Working Paper No. 228, “Perceived Home and Host Country Institutional Environment Pressures by Bilateral Development Cooperation Agency’s Constituents,” a working paper No. 228, “Perceived Home and Host…

The Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies (JICA Ogata Institute) has launched the JICA Ogata Institute Report “Human Security Today” as a flagship report to be published regularly. This report analyzes and researches the concept of human security and its practice from a variety of perspectives, and aims to communicate to the world…

Ms. Yukako Nagamura, researcher at JICA’s Ogata Research Institute, served as moderator. On March 10, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) co-hosted the online course “Migration History and Multicultural Understanding Online Course – Understanding ‘Others’ from History” with JICA Yokohama Migration Museum. The lecture was part of…

Ms. Yukako Nagamura, researcher at JICA’s Ogata Research Institute, served as moderator. On February 21, 2022, JICA Sadako Ogata Research Institute for Peace and Development (JICA Ogata Research Institute) co-hosted an online course on “Migration History and Multicultural Understanding: Understanding ‘Others’ from History” with JICA Yokohama Museum of Overseas Migration. The lecture was part of…

Japan has been providing technical cooperation on environmental issues in many developing countries, but it was in Thailand that Japan started its cooperation in earnest, as the country’s rapid urbanization and industrialization from the 1960s brought serious environmental problems in exchange for economic development. At the time, however, Thailand lacked all the elements necessary to…

On May 8, the new Palau International Airport Terminal, constructed through the “Palau International Airport Terminal Expansion and Operation Project” (Overseas Investment and Loan), was fully opened at the Palau International Airport in Koror City, Republic of Palau. The opening ceremony was held in the presence of Palauan President Surangel S. Whipps and Japanese Foreign…