Africa

Working Papers

No.230 Risk Management for Smallholder Farmers: An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Weather-Index Crop Insurance in Rural Kenya

Fukumori Keiko , Arai Ayumi , Matsumoto Tomoya

Policy Notes

No.9 Toward a Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Otsuka Keijiro, Mano Yukichi, Takahashi Kazushi

Books and Reports

Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

Cedric de Coning, Muto Ako, Rui Saraiva

Books and Reports

Promoting Quality and Productivity Improvement/ Kaizen in Africa

Jin Kimiaki、Ohno Izumi

Publishing date：February, 2022

Books and Reports

Policy Learning for Industrial Development and the Role of Development Cooperation

Ohno Izumi、Amatsu Kuniaki 、Hosono Akio

Publishing date：February, 2022

Other

The Impact of Better Access to Improved Water Sources on Health, Schooling, and Water Collection of Girls and Boys in Rural Zambia

Shimamura Yasuharu、Shimizutani Satoshi、Taguchi Shimpei、Yamada Hiroyuki

Publishing date：February, 2022

Working Papers

No.226 The Importance of Farm Management Training for the African Rice Green Revolution: Experimental Evidence from Rainfed Lowland Areas in Mozambique

Kajisa Kei、Trang Thu Vu

Publishing date：December, 2021

Other

Economic Valuation of Safe Water From New Boreholes in Rural Zambia: A Coping Cost Approach

Shimamura Yasuharu、Shimizutani Satoshi、Taguchi Shimpei、Yamada Hiroyuki

Publishing date：December, 2021

Working Papers

No.223 Evaluating the Robustness of Project Performance Under Deep Uncertainty of Climate Change: A Case Study of Irrigation Development in Kenya

Narita Daiju 、Sato Ichiro 、Ogawada Daikichi 、Matsumura Akiko

Publishing date：August, 2021

Project History

Peace and Unity Through Sports: South Sudan’s First “National Unity Day” and Its Inaugural Olympic Participation

Furukawa Mitsuaki

Publishing date：August, 2021

Working Papers

No.220 An Inquiry into the Process of Upgrading Rice Milling Service: The Case of Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

Mano Yukichi 、Timothy Njagi Njeru、Otsuka Keijiro

Publishing date：March, 2021

Other

Assessing Context-Specific Peacebuilding Approaches in Contemporary Armed Conflicts: From High-Level Mediation to Middle-Out Linkage in Syria and from Adaptive Mediation to Nationally-Owned Peacebuilding in Mozambique

Ako Muto、Rui Saraiva

Publishing date：November, 2020

Working Papers

No.210 Help-seeking Pathways and Barriers of GBV Survivors in South Sudanese Refugee Settlements in Uganda

Kawaguchi Chigumi

Publishing date：March, 2020

Working Papers

No.206 Integrative Economic Evaluation of an Infrastructure Project as a Measure for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Irrigation Development in Kenya

Daiju Narita、Ichiro Sato、Daikichi Ogawada、Akiko Matsumura

Publishing date：March, 2020

Working Papers

No.205 The Variety of People in Refugee Settlements, Gender and GBV: The Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Northern Uganda

Tobinai Yuko

Publishing date：March, 2020

Working Papers

No.204 Does Learning the Social Model Improve Behavior towards Persons with Disabilities? A Randomized Experiment for Taxi Drivers in South Africa

Igei Kengo

Publishing date：March, 2020

Working Papers

No.200 Economic Viability of Large-scale Irrigation Construction in 21st Century Sub-Saharan Africa: Centering around an Estimation of the Construction Costs of the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya

Kikuchi Masao、Mano Yukichi、Timothy Njagi Njeru、Douglas J. Merrey、Otsuka Keijiro

Publishing date：January, 2020

Working Papers

No.196 Technology Adoption, Impact, and Extension in Developing Countries’ Agriculture: A Review of the Recent Literature

Kazushi Takahashi、Rie Muraoka、Keijiro Otsuka

Publishing date：October, 2019

Books and Reports

From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures: Reflections on Africa

Hiroyuki Hino、Arnim Langer、John Lonsdale、Frances Stewart

Publishing date：August, 2019

Books and Reports

Field Research Report “The Help-seeking Pathways and Barriers: Case of South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda”

Chigumi Kawaguchi

Publishing date：August, 2019

Books and Reports

The Quality of Growth in Africa

Ravi Kanbur、Akbar Noman、Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publishing date：August, 2019

Working Papers

No.193 The Impact of Microcredit on Agricultural Technology Adoption and Productivity: Evidence from Randomized Control Trial in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano、Eustadius F. Magezi

Publishing date：June, 2019

Working Papers

No.192 Obtaining a Second Chance Education in Post-conflict Rwanda: Motivations and Paths

Miho Taka

Publishing date：March, 2019

Working Papers

No.188 Second Chance Education in Northern Uganda: Pathways and Motivation

Marion MacLellan

Publishing date：March, 2019

Policy Notes

No.5 Evidence-Based Strategy for a Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Publishing date：March, 2019

Policy Notes

No.4 Effective Continuum of Care for every mother and child: Implementation research in Ghana

Makimoto Saeda、Shibanuma Akira、Hagiwara Akiko、Yamagata Ritsuko

Publishing date：September, 2018

Working Papers

No.176 Capacity Development in Environmental Management Administration through Raising Public Awareness: A Case Study in Algeria

Mitsuo Yoshida

Publishing date：August, 2018

Books and Reports

Applying the Kaizen in Africa: A New Avenue for Industrial Development

Keijiro Otsuka、Kimiaki Jin、Tetsushi Sonobe

Publishing date：August, 2018

Other

General Budget Support in Tanzania: Implications of late disbursements for service delivery

Mitsuaki Furukawa、Junichiro Takahata

Publishing date：July, 2018

Working Papers

No.174 Spillovers as a Driver to Reduce Ex-post Inequality Generated by Randomized Experiments: Evidence from an Agricultural Training Intervention

Kazushi Takahashi、Yukichi Mano、Keijiro Otsuka

Publishing date：June, 2018

Working Papers

No.168 Were the Adverse Effects of Disability on Employment Mitigated during 2002-2015 in South Africa?: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Kengo Igei

Publishing date：March, 2018

Working Papers

No.167 Stagnation of Integration in Aid Administration in South Africa —Choices Between Norms, Interests and Power Balance—

Hisahiro Kondoh

Publishing date：March, 2018

Working Papers

No.166 Enlightening Communities and Parents for Improving Student Learning Evidence from Randomized Experiment in Niger

Eiji Kozuka

Publishing date：March, 2018

Working Papers

No.161 Long-term and Spillover Effects of Rice Production Training in Uganda

Yoko Kijima

Publishing date：February, 2018

Working Papers

No.157 Contract Farming, Farm Mechanization, and Agricultural Intensification: The Case of Rice Farming in Cote d’Ivoire

Yukichi Y. Mano、Kazushi Takahashi、 Keijiro Otsuka

Publishing date：November, 2017

Other

Training-Infrastructure-Finance (TIF) Strategy for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Group on Strategic Support for Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa、KITANO, Naohiro、ODAJIMA, Ken、SHIMADA, Go

Publishing date：November, 2017

Working Papers

No.153 Impact of Universal Primary Education Policy on Out of School Children in Uganda

Kamal Lamichhane 、Takahiro Tsujimoto

Publishing date：April, 2017

Working Papers

No.149 The Discourse of Japanese Development Assistance and the Scaling-up of Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in Ghana

Kweku Ampiah

Publishing date：March, 2017

Working Papers

No.142 Untangling Disability and Poverty: A Matching Approach Using Large-scale Data in South Africa

Kengo Igei

Publishing date：March, 2017

Working Papers

No.140 Toward an Accounting of the Values of Ethiopian Forests as Natural Capital

Daiju Narita、Mulugeta Lemenih、Yukimi Shimoda、Alemayehu N. Ayana

Publishing date：February, 2017

Working Papers

No.141 Effect of School Factors on Gender Gaps in Learning Opportunities in Rural Senegal: Does School Governance Matter?

Mikiko Nishimura

Publishing date：February, 2017

Books and Reports

Efficiency, Finance and Varieties of Industrial Policy

Akbar Noman、Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publishing date：November, 2016

Other

Exploring User Incentive Mechanisms for Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management – An Institutional Analysis of Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal

Hanatani Atsushi

Publishing date：August, 2016

Working Papers

No.133 Examination of Poverty in Northern Mozambique:A Comparison of Social and Economic Dimensions

Naoko Shinkai

Publishing date：July, 2016

Books and Reports

Transformative Innovation for International Development: Operationalizing Innovation Ecosystems and Smart Cities for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction

Helen Moser、Charles Rice

Publishing date：May, 2016

Working Papers

No.119 Outsourced Technical Cooperation Reconsidered: Agency Problems in the Support of Decentralized Public Service Delivery in Sierra Leone

Satoru Mikami、Mitsuaki Furukawa

Publishing date：March, 2016

Working Papers

No.120 Election, Implementation, and Social Capital in School-Based Management: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on the COGES Project in Burkina Faso

Yasuyuki Sawada 、Takeshi Aida、Andrew S. Griffen、Eiji Kozuka、Haruko Noguchi、Yasuyuki Todo

Publishing date：March, 2016

Working Papers

No.121 The Motivation of Participants in Successful Development Aid Projects: A Self-Determination Theory Analysis of Reasons for Participating

Nobuo R. Sayanagi、Jiro Aikawa

Publishing date：March, 2016

Books and Reports

Background Paper for African Transformation Report 2016: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture

Publishing date：March, 2016

Working Papers

No.113 Measuring the Quality of Education Policies and Their Implementation for Better Learning: Adapting World Bank's SABER Tools on School Autonomy and Accountability to Senegal

Takako Yuki、Kengo Igei、Angela Demas

Publishing date：February, 2016

Working Papers

No.115 Can School-Based Management Generate Community-Wide Impacts in Less Developed Countries? Evidence from Randomized Experiments in Burkina Faso

Yasuyuki Todo、Eiji Kozuka

Publishing date：February, 2016

Working Papers

No.112 How Can Community Participation Improve Educational Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a School-Based Management Project in Burkina Faso

Eiji Kozuka、Yasuyuki Sawada 、Yasuyuki Todo

Publishing date：January, 2016

Books and Reports

In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution: Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields

Keijiro Otsuka、Donald F. Larson

Publishing date：January, 2016

Working Papers

No.109 Measuring Quality of Policies and Their Implementation for Better Learning: Adapting the World Bank's SABER Tools on School Autonomy and Accountability to Burkina Faso

Takako Yuki、Kengo Igei、Angela Demas

Publishing date：December, 2015

Books and Reports

Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

Joseph E. Stiglitz、Akbar Noman

Publishing date：September, 2015

Working Papers

No.106 Convergence of Aid Models in Emerging Donors? Learning Processes, Norms and Identities, and Recipients

Hisahiro Kondoh

Publishing date：July, 2015

Working Papers

No.105 On the Determinants of High Productivity Rice Farming in Irrigated Areas in Senegal: The Efficiency of Large Compared with Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes

Takeshi Sakurai

Publishing date：April, 2015

Working Papers

No.90 The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Productivity of Rice Farming in Tanzania: Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective?

Yuko Nakano、Takuji W. Tsusaka、Takeshi Aida、Valerien O. Pede

Publishing date：March, 2015

Working Papers

No.86 Constraints on Rice Sector Development in Mozambique

Kei Kajisa

Publishing date：December, 2014

Working Papers

No.82 Management of the International Development Aid System and the Creation of Political Space for China: The Case of Tanzania

Mitsuaki Furukawa

Publishing date：October, 2014

Working Papers

No.83 Aid Fragmentation and Effectiveness for Infant and Child Mortality and Primary School Completion

Mitsuaki Furukawa

Publishing date：October, 2014

Working Papers

No.80 Enhancing Rice Production in Uganda: Impact Evaluation of a Training Program and Guidebook Distribution in Uganda

Yoko Kijima

Publishing date：September, 2014

Books and Reports

Confronting Land and Property Problems for Peace

Shinichi Takeuchi

Publishing date：May, 2014

Working Papers

No.69 Inter-Ethnic Hostility and Mobility of Political Power:Changing Influences of Perceived Horizontal Inequalities

Satoru Mikami

Publishing date：March, 2014

Working Papers

No.71 To What Extent Does the Adoption of Modern Variety Increase Productivity and Income? A Case Study of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano、Kei Kajisa

Publishing date：March, 2014

Working Papers

No.74 Effects of Transport Corridor Development on Firms'Locational Choice and Firms' Perception of Business Environment: A Preliminary Analysis of Transport Corridors in Mozambique

Yasuo Fujita、Asami Takeda

Publishing date：March, 2014

Working Papers

No.64 Is Country-system-based Aid Really Better than Project-based Aid?Evidence from Rural Water Supply Management in Uganda

Mitsuaki Furukawa、Satoru Mikami

Publishing date：January, 2014

Books and Reports

AFRICA 2050　—Realizing the Continent's Full Potential—

Theodore Ahlers、Hiroshi Kato、Harinder S. Kohli、Callisto Madavo、AnilSood

Publishing date：January, 2014

Other

The impact of a shade coffee certification program on forest conservation using remote sensing and household data

Yasuyuki Todo、Ryo Takahashi

Publishing date：January, 2014

Other

Designing Youth Employment Policies in Egypt

Akira Murata

Publishing date：January, 2014

Other

Sustainable growth and structural transformation in Africa: how can a stable and efficient financial sector help?

Akio Hosono

Publishing date：December, 2013

Books and Reports

Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa: Inequalities, Perceptions and Institutions

Yoichi Mine、Frances Stewart、Sakiko Fukuda-Parr、Thandika Mkandawire

Publishing date：October, 2013

Policy Briefs

No.11 For the Aid Effectiveness through General Budget Support

Publishing date：September, 2013

Working Papers

No.62 Achieving the Millennium Development Goals:Lessons for Post-2015 New Development Strategies

Jeet Bahadur Sapkota、Sakiko Shiratori

Publishing date：August, 2013

Books and Reports

The Coalition for African Rice Development Progress in 2008-2013

Hiroyuki Kubota、Keijiro Otsuka、Kei Kajisa、Yoko Kijima、Yuko Nakano、Yukinori Ito、Ellen Payongayong

Publishing date：June, 2013

Books and Reports

WORKING PAPERS Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force Meeting with Prof. Joseph Stiglitz ～JICA and IPD (Columbia University)～

Joseph E. Stiglitz、Julia Cagé、Ha-Joon Chang、Sakiko Fukuda-Parr、Stephany Griffith-Jones、Akio Hosono、Danny Leipziger、Shahid Yusuf、Akbar Noman、Annalisa Primi、Go Shimada

Publishing date：May, 2013

Books and Reports

Development Challenges in Africa Towards 2050

Publishing date：May, 2013

Books and Reports

For Inclusive and Dynamic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hiroshi Kato、Kei Yoshizawa、Koji Makino、Keijiro Otsuka、Jiro Aikawa、Go Shimada、Toru Homma、Hiromichi Murakami、Yasuo Fujita、Ippei Tsuruga、Asami Takeda、Kaori Matsushita、Ikuo Takizawa、Kazuro Shibuya、Tomonori Sudo、Ryutaro Murotani、Shunichiro Honda、Yukimi Shimoda

Publishing date：April, 2013

Working Papers

No.55 Impact of a shade coffee certification program on forest conservation: A case study from a wild coffee forest in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi、Yasuyuki Todo

Publishing date：March, 2013

Working Papers

No.56 Conflict Analysis in Virtual States (CAVS): 　A New Experimental Method Based on the Extensive Use of Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) and Geographical Information System (GIS)

Takuto Sakamoto

Publishing date：March, 2013

Working Papers

No.58 The Determinants of Technology Adoption:The Case of the Rice Sector in Tanzania

Yuko Nakano、Kei Kajisa

Publishing date：March, 2013

Working Papers

No.50 Is GBS Still a Preferable Aid Modality?

Mitsuaki Furukawa、Junichiro Takahata

Publishing date：January, 2013

Books and Reports

How Can Africa Flourish with Ethnic Diversity? : Synopsis of the Fifth Kobe University/JICA Conference on Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa

Hiroyuki Hino、John Lonsdale、Taylor St. John

Publishing date：January, 2013

Working Papers

No.49 Expansion of Lowland Rice Production and Constraints on a Rice Green Revolution: Evidence from Uganda

Yoko Kijima

Publishing date：December, 2012

Working Papers

No.48 General Budget Support in Tanzania, Late Disbursement and Service Delivery

Mitsuaki Furukawa、Junichiro Takahata

Publishing date：November, 2012

Working Papers

No.47 Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country

Ryuji Kasahara、Keitaro Aoyagi、Masahiro Shoji、Mika Ueyama

Publishing date：August, 2012

Books and Reports

Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Hiroyuki Hino、John Lonsdale、Gustav Ranis、Frances Stewart

Publishing date：July, 2012

Working Papers

No.46 Regional Integration in East Africa Diversity or Economic Conformity

Junichi Goto

Publishing date：June, 2012

Working Papers

No.42 Do Community-Managed Schools Facilitate Social CapitalAccumulation? Evidence from the COGES Project in Burkina-Faso

Yasuyuki Sawada、Takaharu Ishii

Publishing date：March, 2012

Books and Reports

Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies

Akbar Noman、Kwesi Botchwey、Howard Stein、Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publishing date：March, 2012

Policy Briefs

No.8 "Prevention of Violent Conflict in Africa"

Publishing date：March, 2012

Working Papers

No.38 Do Export Costs Matter in Determining Whether, When, and How Much African Firms Export?

Wim Naudé and Marianne Matthee

Publishing date：February, 2012

Other

Linking Resource Users' Perceptions and Collective Action in Commons Management – An Examination of Water Supply Systems in Southern Senegal

Hanatani Atsushi

Publishing date：February, 2012

Working Papers

No.37 Ethnic Networks and Technical Knowledge Learning in Industrial Clusters

Yessica, C.Y. Chung

Publishing date：January, 2012

Working Papers

No.35 Evidence from Spatial Correlation of Poverty and Income in Kenya

Nobuaki Hamaguchi

Publishing date：November, 2011

Policy Briefs

No.6 Social Science Approach for Sustainable Water Use and Management in Africa

Publishing date：October, 2011

Working Papers

No.34 Assessing Effectiveness and Sustainability of Community-managed Informal Irrigation in Africa　—A Comparative Institutional Analysis of "Temporary" Irrigation in Malawi—

Atsushi Hanatani、Mine Sato

Publishing date：August, 2011

Working Papers

No.31 Impact of Community Management on Forest Protection: Evidence from an Aid-Funded Project in Ethiopia

Ryo Takahashi、Yasuyuki Todo

Publishing date：July, 2011

Working Papers

No.32 Gacaca and DDR: The Disputable Record of State-Building in Rwanda

Shinichi Takeuchi

Publishing date：July, 2011

Working Papers

No.30 Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Income and Skills: Evidence from an Aid-Funded Project in Rural Ethiopia

Yasuyuki Todo、Ryo Takahashi

Publishing date：May, 2011

Working Papers

No.28 Empirical Study on Industrial Cluster in Africa, the Role of Space, Infrastructure, Human Resource and Social Capital 　— Location Choice and Performance of Furniture Workshops in Arusha, Tanzania—

Megumi Muto、Yessica, C.Y. Chung、Shinobu Shimokoshi

Publishing date：March, 2011

Working Papers

No.25 On the Possibility of a Lowland Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa:　Evidence from the Sustainable Irrigated Agricultural Development (SIAD) Project in Eastern Uganda

Yoko Kijima、Yukinori Ito、Keijiro Otsuka

Publishing date：December, 2010

Policy Briefs

No.4 On a Direction of Assistance for "Fragile States"

Publishing date：December, 2010

Working Papers

No.22 Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

Bruce J. Berman

Publishing date：November, 2010

Working Papers

No.23 Exploring the Causal Mechanism of Collective Action for Sustainable Resource Management　— A Comparative Analysis of Rural Water Supply Systems in Senegal —

Atsushi Hanatani

Publishing date：November, 2010

Working Papers

No.24 Linking Resource Users' Perceptions and Collective Action in Commons Management—An Examination of Water Supply System in Southern Senegal—

Atsushi Hanatani、Kana Fuse

Publishing date：November, 2010

Working Papers

No.20 Ethnic Patriotism and Markets in African History

John Lonsdale

Publishing date：September, 2010

Working Papers

No.19 Will China's Recovery Affect Africa's Prospects for Economic Growth?

Jean-Claude Maswana

Publishing date：July, 2010

Working Papers

No.17 The Green Revolution and Its Significance for Economic Development　—The Indian Experience and Its Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa—

Koichi Fujita

Publishing date：June, 2010

Working Papers

No.18 Challenge for the OVOP Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa　—Insights from Malawi, Japan and Thailand—

Kiyoto Kurokawa、Fletcher Tembo、Dirk Willem te Velde

Publishing date：June, 2010

Working Papers

No.15 The Global Financial Crisis and Recession —Impact on and Development Prospects for Africa—

Jean-Claude Maswana

Publishing date：April, 2010

Working Papers

No.6 Diversity of Communities and Economic Development: An overview

Gustav Ranis

Publishing date：March, 2010

Working Papers

No.7 Market, Democracy, and Diversity of Individual Preferences and Values

Satish K. Jain

Publishing date：March, 2010

Working Papers

No.8 Stability of the Market Economy in the Presence of Diverse Economic Agents

Anjan Mukherji

Publishing date：March, 2010

Working Papers

No.1 Conflict and Land Tenure in Rwanda

Shinichi Takeuchi、Jean Marara

Publishing date：September, 2009