JICA Vice President Junichi Yamada delivered a lecture titled “Africa and Japan under Complex Crises: Toward TICAD8” at the TICAD8 Preview Symposium “New Trends in African Business: Diverse Approaches and Keys to Success” organized by Nikkei BP and Nikkei Inc. on June 22. For the lecture information, please click the link below (link to Nihon…
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Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Samoa’s independence and the 50th anniversary of the JICA volunteers in Samoa.
JICA Special Advisor Shinichi Kitaoka delivered remarks at the Samoa Embassy in Tokyo’s ceremony held on June 15 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Samoa’s independence and the 50th anniversary of the dispatch of JICA volunteers to Samoa. © Source JICA Read More Auto Amazon Links: No products found.Auto Amazon Links: No products found.
Contributing to the expansion of private investment and the promotion of logistics in Kenya
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Grant Agreement (G/A) with the Government of the Republic of Kenya on June 16 in Mombasa for a grant of up to 6 billion yen for the “Infrastructure Development Project in Mombasa Special Economic Zone in Dongokundu Region. Based on the “Mombasa Special Economic Zone Development Master…
Improving Quality of Local Medical Services: Bangladesh Ship International Hospital
On June 18, an opening ceremony was held in Dhaka City, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, for Ship International Hospital, which was established through the East West Medical College Hospital Project (funded by an overseas investment and loan). In addition to a video message from Bangladesh Minister of Health and Family Welfare Zahid Malek, many Bangladeshi…
“Life Security” Sadako Ogata’s Aspirations
Sadako Ogata’s Aspirations and “Human Security” Today June 20 is “World Refugee Day,” a day designated to raise awareness and support for those who have been forced to become refugees due to conflict and other reasons. Sadako Ogata, who served as UN High Commissioner for Refugees and President of JICA, has advocated the concept of…
Takumo Hydroelectric Power Plant Expansion Project
Electricity demand in Vietnam has increased rapidly with economic development, and the average annual growth rate of national electricity consumption from 1996 to 2002 was 14.6%. Electricity demand in the southern region of Vietnam was expected to increase at a rate of 13.8% annually by 2010. In particular, electricity demand in the northeastern southern region…
Atiak-Nimule road project
Uganda’s Amuru District is located approximately 350 km northwest of the capital Kampala and borders South Sudan. The region has lagged behind in the development of production, livelihood, and social infrastructure due to years of civil war. South Sudan is rich in mineral resources such as crude oil and fertile arable land, but its landlocked…
Bangkok Waterworks Project phase 8
The Bangkok Metropolitan Region, consisting of the Bangkok Special Municipality and five surrounding provinces, is the political and economic center of Thailand, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Corporation operated the water supply system in the Bangkok Special Municipality as well as two surrounding provinces. The maximum water demand in the region was 5.13 million cubic meters/day…
Cajamarca Water Project
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…
Haripur Power Plant Project
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….