Category: JICA contributions

In the rural cities of Cajamarca, located in the mountainous region of northern Peru, water and sewage facilities were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, but since then, there has been no significant investment in new construction or renewal of facilities. As a result, by the late 2000s, the facilities were aging and did not…

In Bangladesh, demand for electricity was increasing in line with robust economic growth, but power generation capacity was not keeping pace with this growth in demand. Therefore, the government of Bangladesh had set a national goal of “providing a stable supply of affordable electricity to all citizens by 2020,” and was working on capital investment….

Conference Title: 50 Years of JICA Bangladesh Cooperation and Future Prospects Date: Friday, June 10, 2022 Organized by: Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo Place: Tokyo Bongo Bondo Auditorium (Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo) Main Participants Congratulatory Greeting Fatima Yasmin (video, ERD Undersecretary) Mari Akiyama (Country Development Cooperation Division 2, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign…

On June 17, Junichi Yamada, Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Sergiy Marchenko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, signed a Loan Agreement (L/A) to add 65 billion yen to the “Emergency Economic Reconstruction and Development Policy Loan”. The total amount of yen loan for this project is 78 billion yen. This…

JICA Vice President Junichi Yamada delivered a lecture (online) titled “JICA’s Challenges in Peacebuilding: Looking at Collaboration with International Organizations” at the third in a series of seminars on “Human Security and Peacebuilding” held by the Sophia University Global Education Center on June 14. The lecture information is available at the link below (link to…

JICA President Akihiko Tanaka met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tunisia Osman Gerandi at JICA Headquarters on June 2. At the beginning of the meeting, President Tanaka made a statement to Foreign Minister Djerandi that the Minister’s visit to Japan was a very important opportunity for deepening cooperation between Japan and…

In Brazil, damage from slope disasters such as floods, mudslides, collapses, and landslides has been increasing due to unauthorized land use and urban expansion into areas with high disaster risk associated with recent economic development. To reduce damage, it is important to reduce risk before disaster strikes, and this project follows on from JICA’s efforts…

Tajikistan is a landlocked country with 93% of its land area mountainous, with no outlet to seaports and underdeveloped air transportation, so 90% of transportation of people and goods is done by land. Therefore, in the country’s transportation sector, the construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure is an important development goal. In particular, many…

The cumulative number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in Senegal is 41,725 (1,150 deaths) (as of June 9, 2021, according to the Senegalese Ministry of Health). In Senegal, vaccination is positioned as the top priority in the fight against novel coronaviruses, and vaccination has been initiated. While it is necessary to establish a…

In the country of Bangladesh, both urban and rural areas had inadequate water supply facilities due to lack of capital investment. In Chottogram City, the second largest city in the country, the water supply and sewerage system had a low penetration rate of about 50%, which affected the living environment of residents and was a…