Category: JICA contributions

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…

On September 5, 2024, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Indonesia, held the Indonesia-Japan Human Resources Forum at the JICA Ichigaya International Conference Hall, which was attended by approximately 340 people both on-site and online. At the first forum, a Memorandum of Cooperation was…

Project Outline JICA is committed to providing young people, who will be responsible for the future, with easy-to-understand information about our international cooperation projects, A “manga version” of the project history, which summarizes the trajectory and results of the project, is being published. The first half of the event will feature one of the manga…

The final round of “Kosen Open Innovation (KOI) -Challenges from Africa 2024-” (Kosen OI), a hackathon for technical college students conducted by JICA and Nagaoka University of Technology (Nagaoka University of Technology), was held on August 20 in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture. About 40 students from 10 teams of 8 colleges of technology from all…

September 11, 2024 In response to a request from the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide emergency relief supplies to the country in response to the damage caused by torrential rains as follows record damage from the earthquake and tsunami Typhoon YAGI made landfall in the…

Professor Oki Daikan of the University of Tokyo, who this year received the Stockholm Water Prize, known as the Nobel Prize in the field of water, has been working with JICA on research toward resilient development that can cope with water disasters and other disasters caused by climate change. As the risk of climate change…