Category: JICA contributions

It has been a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. There are ‘broadcasters’ in Ukraine who are trying to provide accurate and impartial information to the people of Ukraine, even though their lives are in danger due to repeated attacks,” says Atsushi Miyao of NHK International, who has extensive experience in training broadcasters….

The “One Village, One Product” Movement, which began in Oita Prefecture around 1980 and spread throughout Japan to promote regional development through the creation of local specialty products, has been supported by JICA in various developing countries. Last December, the project was adopted as a national project. We will find out why the project was…

Connecting Bangladesh, which has excellent IT human resources but is having difficulty finding work, and Japan’s regional cities, which are suffering from a shortage of digital human resources. This new form of international cooperation is attracting attention from local governments and companies nationwide. The catalyst for this new form of international cooperation is JICA’s IT…

Due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, research institutions in Ukraine have been severely damaged and many researchers have been forced to suspend their research activities. Under such circumstances, from July to December 2022, Fukushima University’s Research Institute for Environment and Radioactivity accepted young Ukrainian researchers and provided them with training.JICA, in collaboration with…

JICA has many people from various backgrounds who are tackling international issues with clear-cut passion in their respective fields. This issue of “People Tackling International Challenges” focuses on the passion of these people. In this second issue, we introduce Yasue Yoshinari, who is taking on international issues from within Japan as the Director of JICA…

Chocolate for a break from work, or cocoa for a breather. What if the cacao used as a raw material was harvested by children who worked in exchange for the time they were supposed to spend at school? In order to protect children’s educational opportunities, an initiative to eradicate child labor using blockchain technology has…

On July 29, Dr. Olena Bourdeau, a researcher from the Institute of Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, came to Japan from Ukraine. She will receive training at the Institute of Environment and Radioactivity Research (IER) of Fukushima University and other institutions for about 4 months until early December in order…

In order to achieve further economic growth, Japan will need about four times as many foreign workers in 2040 as in 2020. On the occasion of World Population Day on July 11, we will trace the pages of this report. In 2040, Japan will be short 420,000 foreign workers relative to demand The “Survey and…

The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) will be held in the United Arab Emirates from November 30 to December 12. In this second installment of a two-part series on JICA’s climate change initiatives, we focus on a forest conservation project in the Democratic Republic of…

On June 29, JICA held the first of a series of online seminars (four sessions planned) to share Japan’s knowledge and experience in disaster waste management with Ukraine, which is facing difficulties in dealing with the large amount of destructive waste* generated by the military invasion by Russia. In order to improve Ukraine’s capacity to…