Category: JICA contributions

Emergency relief supplies provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for forest fire damage in the Plurinational State of Bolivia have been delivered to the country. The emergency relief supplies to be provided to Bolivia will be a set of firefighting uniforms, equipment, and materials for the firefighting teams that are working on the…

TSUBASA, JICA’s startup support program in Latin America and the Caribbean, is co-sponsoring with BRIDGE the “Innovators Go! Global” event series on the theme of startups going global. On October 15, “Startups from Academia” will be held as the third part of the series, as follows. Startup companies from academia that are expanding overseas will…

summary Date: October 2, 2024 Co-organizers: JICA, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) Location: JICA Takebashi Meeting Room and online (hybrid event) Main Participants Opening Remarks: Naoki Ando, Director, JICA Keynote Speech: Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Secretary of AUDA-NEPA Amin Idris Adom, Director, Trade, Connectivity and Infrastructure, AUDA-NEPAD Outline of TICAD 30th Anniversary Draft Report Naoki Yanase, Director,…

On September 23, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the government of Plurinational State of Bolivia in La Paz on the technical cooperation project, “Capacity Enhancement of Satellite Imaging for Forest Fire Fighting”. Signing Ceremony A summary of the business is as follows Project Name Project to Strengthen…

JICA President Akihiko Tanaka visited the U.S. from September 17 to 21 to discuss development issues and responses to global challenges with representatives of international organizations and U.S. government agencies, as well as to communicate Japan’s development cooperation on the 70th anniversary of international cooperation through lectures at think tanks. meeting with representatives of development…

JICA invited representatives of development cooperation organizations from ASEAN countries to Tokyo on September 30 and October 1, 2024 for a round table meeting at JICA Headquarters to reflect the voices of ASEAN and Japan on international trends in development cooperation. From ASEAN countries, Indonesian AID and its International Development Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign…

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will participate as a founding member of the Asia GX Consortium, which was officially launched on October 2. The Consortium will develop a practical common approach based on examples of investments and loans, and study methods to promote transition finance, which is finance for transition toward decarbonization, in Asia, including…

On September 23, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the government of Plurinational State of Bolivia in La Paz on the technical cooperation project, “Capacity Enhancement of Satellite Imaging for Forest Fire Fighting”. Signing Ceremony A summary of the business is as follows Project Name Project to Strengthen…

On September 22, 2024, Professor Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2014), visited the Uzbek-Japan Innovation Center of Youth (UJICY). UJICY was established in 2016 by agreement between the governments of Uzbekistan and Japan, and serves as a “hub” for industry-academia collaboration, promoting innovation through collaboration between research institutions,…

summary Seminar Title: How to Measure? Forests and Biodiversity – Current State of Visualization Technologies for Nature Positive Organized by: Platform to Change the World from the Forest Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024, 15:30~17:00 Method: Online speaker Overview of Remote Sensing in the Forest Sector Senior Researcher, Environmental Analysis Division, Research and Development Department, Remote…