JICA Partnership Program (JPP), is a technical cooperation program at the grassroots level, implemented to support Japanese Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), universities, local governments, and public corporations, etc (hereinafter "Japanese Partners ") to carry out international cooperation activities in order to directly support the locals in developing countries.
Specifically, JICA will examine and select projects to be implemented from proposals formulated and submitted by Japanese Partners. For selected projects, JICA will support and supervise the overall implementation based on approved plans.
Currently, this Program has been implemented in fields that help improve the lives and livelihoods of locals in many countries around the globe.
Projects implemented under this Program framework must meet three (3) conditions as below:
Depending on the activities and the working years of domestic and overseas experience of Japanese Partners, the funding provided for a project varies from 10 million yen to 100 million yen, with implement duration up to 3 years.
In Vietnam, since the commencement of this program in 2002 to July 2024, JICA has been implementing 155 projects in many fields such as improving water supply and drainage systems, strengthening response capacity of the community to natural disaster, agriculture and rural development including community-base tourism development, health care, environmental management and climate change, education and training, etc.
※Refer to following link for Good practices of JICA Partnership Program Projects in Viet Nam