Activities in Bangladesh

History of JICA in Bangladesh

1973	Beginning of Japanese Technical Assistance to Bangladesh by dispatching Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs)
1974	The first ODA Loan to Bangladesh Establishment of JICA Bangladesh Office
1988	Establishment of OECF (antecedent of JBIC) Representative Office in Dhaka
1995	Exceeding 500 billion yen as total commitment of ODA Loans to Bangladesh
2003	Exceeding 1,000 Experts dispatched from Japan Debt Cancellation (1,58.90 million yen)
2006	Exceeding 5,000 Participants joining trainings in Japan
2008	Merger of JICA and JBIC
2009	Exceeding 1,000 JOCVs dispatched from Japan 1,190 billion Japanese Yen as a total amount of Japanese ODA