Category: JICA contributions

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…