Tag: JICA

South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, having gained independence from Sudan in July 2011. Since the year after the country was founded, JICA has continued to provide comprehensive cooperation in the agricultural sector. Ten years later, after overcoming a number of turmoil and hardships, including armed conflict and natural disasters, a new…

We need to show the world the presence of Japanese society while staying close to the local people.” President Akihiko Tanaka, who took office on April 1, stated this at his inaugural press conference and discussed the challenges JICA will tackle in the future and the background behind them. President Tanaka says, “It is my…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) conducted a practical comprehensive drill simulating actual search and rescue activities of the Japan Disaster Relief Team (JDR), which is dispatched to large-scale disasters overseas, from May 11 to 13 at the Hyogo Prefectural Disaster Prevention Center and Miki Disaster Prevention Park, following last November. The training was held…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on March 27 in Dhaka for the technical cooperation project “Capacity Enhancement Project for Special Economic Zone Management and Investment Promotion. This project aims to improve the investment environment in SEZs by establishing an…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Record of Discussions (R/D) with the Government of the Republic of Turkey on December 28, 2022, in Ankara, on the SATREPS (Note 1) “One Health Development for the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Especially Arthropod-Borne Infections in Turkey”. (Record of Discussions: R/D) on “One Health Development for…

On January 10, Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Akishino and Prince Hisahito visited the JICA Yokohama Museum of Overseas Migration’s 20th anniversary “Permanent Exhibition” and “Special Exhibition (Yuuhi Futatabi: History of Okinawan Migration and Uchinanchu Bonds)” and met with four Japanese Americans. At the Overseas Migration Museum, which was reopened last year, visitors were…

JICA President Akihiko Tanaka and JICA Special Advisor Shinichi Kitaoka (former JICA President) met with Mr. Carlos Dominguez, Minister of Finance of the Republic of the Philippines, at JICA Headquarters on April 25. At the beginning of the meeting, Minister Dominguez thanked Mr. Kitaoka for his long contribution as JICA President and for JICA’s past…

On January 23, two of the first Georgian Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, who will be the first members of Georgia’s Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, greeted Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Japan Timraz Rejava at JICA Headquarters before their departure. JICA opened its Georgia office in May 2017; a JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteer Dispatch Arrangement was…

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a US$90 million loan agreement with BRAC Bank Limited (BRAC Bank), a Bangladeshi financial institution, on January 10, 2023, and held a ceremony on January 12 to commemorate the signing. The funds from this loan will be used to finance projects that meet the green finance requirements of…

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) today announced the tentative pricing of its “JICA SDGs Bonds” (the 71st JICA Bonds (Domestic FILP Agency Bonds)) for retail investors as follows: Reservations will be accepted on January 10. The Bonds will be retail bonds. The “JICA SDGs Bonds” are bonds for individuals that will be used to fund…