December 1, 2011 : Visit : JICA Headquarters
6 weeks have passed very fast. Today was the second last day of the training in Japan. The participants from Honduras, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Rwanda and Timor Leste made a courtesy visit to the JICA headquarters in Yotsuya, Tokyo.
Upon arrival they were greeted by the manager of the disability division. After they introduced themselves, they listened to his lecture on JICA’s works in the area of disability. JICA operates a number of international co-operation projects in different ways. Most prominently, it operates programs agreed between the Japanese and the receiving governments. Half an hour later, his colleague from Hiroo Office arrived and talked about the JPP scheme, which directly funds domestic (i.e., Japanese) NGOs working closely with organizations abroad.
Having just presented their Actions Plans, the participants asked many questions about how to attract funding from JICA in their own countries. They received sincere replies and some very concrete advice from the JICA lecturers.
Many thanks to the JICA hosts for their time and useful advice…!
