Category: JICA contributions

On November 30, JICA President Akihiko Tanaka visited the Kyrgyz Republic’s Meeting with Prime Minister Akilbek Japarov, Chairman of the Cabinet and Secretary of the Presidential Administration, at JICA headquarters. President Tanaka noted that the OVOP project, launched in Issyk-Kul Oblast, Kyrgyzstan, with the cooperation of JICA, has led to the export of local Kyrgyz…

Passing the certification test at the highest level ever! The relentless challenge of the International Emergency Relief and Rescue Team Japan has been hit by numerous natural disasters such as earthquakes and typhoons. From November 8 to 11, 75 members of the Japan Disaster Relief Team (JDR) took part in an international evaluation test of…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Grant Agreement (G/A) with the Government of the Republic of Rwanda on December 6 in Kigali City for a grant of up to 3,005 million yen for the “Water Supply Service Improvement Project in North Central Kigali City”. This project aims to improve water pressure and reduce…

In rural areas of Laos, many elementary schools operated with financial support from the local community due to inadequate capacity and budget for educational administration. In response, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MOES) established Village Education Development Committees (VEDCs) in each village to encourage school improvement with community participation. In this cooperation, we provided…

In Vietnam, due to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009, non-performing loans in the Vietnamese banking sector reached a serious level in the early 2010s, partly due to the poor performance of state-owned enterprises. The government has therefore identified the improvement of the legal framework and corporate finance mechanism for state-owned enterprises reform as a…

In India, the development of water resources and water supply systems has not kept pace with the increase in water demand due to population growth and economic development. The same situation applies to the development of sewage systems, which requires the development of hygienic sewage treatment facilities. Furthermore, the operation and maintenance of water supply…

After the approval of the 1994 decentralization law, the operation and maintenance of water supply facilities was transferred to the State Water Companies (SWCs), but most of the states were facing serious problems such as lack of budget, human resources, and equipment. However, most of the states were facing serious problems such as budget shortfalls,…

Malawi was facing many challenges in the quality of education, such as a low pass rate in the Secondary School Completion Certificate Examination (MSCE) due to a shortage of secondary education teachers. Under these circumstances, the Japanese government implemented a series of technical cooperation projects related to Strengthening Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (SMASSE) and…

In the Cuban fisheries industry, aquaculture accounted for about half of the total production of marine products, with about 30,000 tons produced annually through aquaculture. The Ministry of Fisheries (MIP) has been able to independently conduct parentage rearing of native saltwater fish through the Japan-Chile joint “saltwater fish aquaculture” cooperative project at the Fisheries Research…

In Cambodia, the lack of logical and critical thinking and application skills in primary and early secondary education and the poor quality of science and mathematics classes were identified as factors that would hinder industrial and economic development and other opportunities in the long run. This cooperation contributed to the improvement of the quality of…