JICA Philippines Office

We are always truly thankful for your understanding and support to our aid activities.

With the merger of JBIC’s Overseas Economic Cooperation Operations to JICA in October 2008, a new JICA was established. We are now a premiere bilateral donor to the developing countries with project funds exceeding one trillion yen, employing more than 1,600 personnel and managing an operation network in some one hundred countries. In 20007, Japan was the largest donor to the Philippines in all three aid categories – technical cooperation, Japanese ODA Loans and grant aid. For this reason, we believe that our impact on the Philippines as well as our partnership in the country will continue to flourish.

With effective aid delivery as the new JICA’s founding principle, we at the JICA Philippines are focusing on the following four key points to enhance our efforts:

1. strengthening the strategic framework of aid in the Philippines,
2. increasing our aid predictability,
3. speeding up aid process, and
4. streamlining our cooperation to better meet current situation and needs in the Philippines.

To carry out our new vision of inclusive and dynamic development, the new JICA implements its international cooperation activities based on the following four strategies:

• Integrated assistance,
• Seamless assistance,
• Promoting development partnerships and
• Enhancing research and knowledge-sharing

By employing these strategies, we can achieve our missions of managing the issues brought about by globalization, poverty alleviation through equitable growth, improving governance and achieving human security.

Currently, Japan’s Country Assistance Program has identified three priority areas for the Philippines: economic growth to create more employment opportunities, improvement of sustainable living standards and self-reliance of the poor and peace and stability in Mindanao. We are establishing project groups, one for each concern, and are working on fully utilizing our aid through effective combination of aid modalities. Our staff shall work hand in hand with all stakeholders in a commitment to judiciously formulate, study, implement, monitor and evaluate projects that shall render JICA an organization sensitive to the real concerns of the developing countries.

Hence, we recognize that only with your cooperation can we truly operate in a distinct stance and character expected on the new JICA. In the same grain, all our best efforts are always linked with your utmost acceptance. We look forward to more years of fruitful partnership.

Norio Matsuda, Chief Representative
JICA Philippines Office