Topical and Sectoral Studies

Practical Approaches towards the Environmental Challenges

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• Foreword
• Preface by the Chairperson
• Member List of the Second Study Committee on Development Assistance for the Environment
• Task Force
• Contents

I. Introduction

II. Summary of the original Japanese report (PDF/36KB)

III. Strategies for Japan's future environmental ODA (PDF/72KB)

• 1. Efforts to deal with complex global environmental problems
  • 1) Maximizing the social welfare of local communities and reducing vulnerability at the local level
  • 2) Providing active support for the international environmental legal framework
  • 3) Environmental assistance under a broad and comprehensive institutional framework
• 2. Assistance focused on outcomes
  • 1) Assistance that directly leads to solutions
  • 2) Region specific and country specific assistance based on their characteristics and economic levels
  • 3) Assistance concerned with achieving the most favorable environmental policies and technology
  • 4) Specifying the detailed activities and outcomes of projects
  • 5) Effective mobilization of excellent human resources
• 3. Strengthening partnerships
  • 1) Efforts to carry out activities in concert with NGOs, the private sector, other Japanese government agencies and donors
  • 2) Strengthening partnerships between JICA and NGOs
  • 3) Ensuring transparency and information dissemination

IV. The features of Japan's environmental cooperation: Its track record and policy agenda (PDF/128KB)

• 1. Review of Japan's ODA policies on environment
  • 1) Review of Japan's ODA policies on environment
  • 2) Policies to promote environmental ODA
  • 3) Initiatives for Sustainable Development toward the 21st Century
  • 4) Kyoto Initiative
• 2. Review of Japan's environmental cooperation
  • 1) Accomplishment of international commitments
  • 2) Broad environmental assistance
  • 3) Expansion of loan assistance projects for the environment
  • 4) Increase in technical cooperation in the environmental field
  • 5) Creating central facilities for integrated environmental management
  • 6) Technical training of overseas participants

V. Practical tactics for JICA's technical cooperation in the environmental field (PDF/56KB)

• 1. Effective technical cooperation
  • 1) The formulation of projects tailored to local conditions
  • 2) The formulation of projects according to the level of social and economic development
  • 3) Strengthening linkages and partnerships with affiliated institutions
  • 4) Delegation of some functions to JICA overseas offices
  • 5) Capacity development in environment
• 2. The improvement of JICA's individual cooperation schemes
  • 1) Dispatch of technical cooperation experts
  • 2) Development studies
  • 3) Project-type technical cooperation
  • 4) Technical training of overseas participants
  • 5) Other issues and collaboration with NGOs
• 3. Combinations of financial aid and technical cooperation
  • 1) Grant aid program
  • 2) Loan aid program

List of Tables

• Figure 1 Trends in the ODA of major DAC countries
• Figure 2 Cooperation between related projects and a comprehensive approach
• Figure 3 Cooperation between projects carried out by different donors and the introduction of a comprehensive approach
• Figure 4 Continuous assistance to environmental projects in specified areas or fields
• Figure 5 A gradual and comprehensive approach focusing on the linkages between small projects including NGO projects
• Table 1 Japan's economic cooperation in the environmental field: Commitments by type of aid
• Table 2 Japan's economic cooperation in the environmental field: Statistics for bilateral assistance in the environmental field
• Figure 6 ODA loans classified into environmental sectors on a commitment basis
• Figure 7 Expenditures on JICA's environmental cooperation from 1989 to 1999
• Figure 8 Achievements of JICA's environmental cooperation from 1989 to 1999
• Figure 9 Achievements of JICA environmental cooperation based on schemes and sub-sectors in 1999