Category: JICA contributions

reporter Name Affiliation Title Junko Morizane Global Environment Department Environmental Management & Climate Change Group summary Date: November 15, 2024 Organized by UN Secretary-General’s Zero-Waste Advisory Board, African Clean Cities Platform (ACCP), and UN-Habitat Venue (Pavilion Name)：Multilevel Action & Urbanization Pavilion speaker Name Affiliation Title Shiho Jono UN-Habitat Waste Management Specialist Christina Jager Yunus Environment…

summary Conference Title: The 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2024 (HSR2024) Dates: November 18 – 22, 2024 Co-organizers (host site steering committee): JICA, Nagasaki University, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Nagasaki City, WHO Research Center for Health Development (Kobe), Japan Center for International Exchange, Global Health Civil Society Network, Nagasaki International…

reporter Name Affiliation Title Koji Fukuda Long-term Expert (Chief Advisor), SPI-NDC Project, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) summary Date: November 20, 2024 Organized by: Ministry of the Environment Co-sponsored by: Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) SPI-NDC, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC) Name of venue (pavilion name)：Japan Pavilion speaker Name Affiliation…

reporter Planning Department, Global Environment Department summary Date: November 13, 2024 Organized by JICA Name of venue (pavilion name)：Japan Pavilion speaker Name Affiliation Title Katsura Miyazaki, Vice President, JICA Fatima Yasmin, Vice President for Sectors and Themes, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Kazunori Watanabe, Vice Finance Officer, Ministry of Finance Yutaka Matsuzawa, Deputy Director for Global…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Grant Agreement (G/A) with the Government of Pakistan on December 17 in Islamabad for the “Mother and Child Healthcare Equipment Development Project in the Flood Affected Areas and Surrounding Areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province”. The agreement was concluded with the government of Japan. Signing Ceremony A summary…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Grant Agreement (G/A) with the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on December 17 in Islamabad, the capital of the country, for the “Strengthening Flood Management in the Indus River Basin. Signing Ceremony A summary of the business is as follows Project Name Plan for Enhanced…

reporter Name Affiliation Title Yasuko Inoue Project Long-term Expert, Sustainable Forest Management and Landscape Restoration for Forest Sector Strengthening and Community Climate Change Resilience (SFS-CORECC) Project, Kenya, JICA summary Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 12:00-13:30 (local time) Co-organized by the Kenyan Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forests (MECCF) and Kenya Forest Service (KFS), Japan…

JICA President Akihiko Tanaka met with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) President Achim Steiner at JICA headquarters on December 16. At the beginning of his remarks, President Tanaka welcomed President Steiner’s visit on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Japan’s international cooperation, and noted that the collaborative relationship with UNDP is evolving further and…

reporter Name Affiliation Title Yasuko Inoue Project Long-term Expert, Sustainable Forest Management and Landscape Restoration for Forest Sector Strengthening and Community Climate Change Resilience (SFS-CORECC) Project, Kenya, JICA summary Date: November 14, 2024, 17:00-18:00 (local time) Co-sponsored by the Government of Kenya (MECCF (Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forests, Kenya) and NT (Ministry of…

JICA President Akihiko Tanaka met with Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yuliya Sviridenko at JICA headquarters on December 16. During the meeting, President Tanaka stated that Japan will continue its support for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Ukraine with a view to sharing Japanese knowledge and technology, and emphasized that Japan…