Overview of Cooperation
We carry out the following procedures
to implement a project:
o Request
o Study
o Examination
o Implementation
o Follow-up.
Grant aid is a program where we
provide funds to the communities of developing countries without the obligation
of repayment. The aim is to support the self-help efforts of the recipient
community through the implementation of a local project.
Technical cooperation is implemented
jointly with the partner community. Ownership of the project lies strictly with
the partner community, and our status is that of a cooperating partner.
Therefore, the partner community needs to exercise ownership in the project.
Most technical cooperation projects thus incorporate participatory methods that
involve residents of a project’s target area for planning, administration, and
evaluation of the project.
Once the cooperation period is over,
the partner community is expected to continue the project alone. Scale and
implementation plans are drawn up after consideration is given to the financial
capacity of the local organization responsible for implementing the project in
the partner community and adoption of transferred technology after the
cooperation period has concluded.
We proactively respond to new
diversifying aid needs by grasping those needs specific to region and community
to draw up cooperation plans. From the viewpoint of stronger support for good
governance as well as cooperation for intellectual support for financial and
monetary policies and legal systems, we send advisors to a local organization
responsible for policy formulation, providing vigorous support for
organization-building in various areas.