Follow-up of TICAD IV (Progress of Assistance Measures Announced by Donors)

December 25, 2008
Japanese

TICAD IV

At the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) convened in Yokohama last May, the participants compiled the Yokohama Action Plan that lays out assistant measures to be implemented by countries or organizations. At the same time, the TICAD Follow-up Mechanism was established to regularly report on the progress of assistance measures announced through TICAD process, to review or evaluate them at ministerial level, and to issue new proposals.
The TICAD IV Secretariat, which was established under the Director-General for African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recently compiled a report on the progress of the assistance measures detailed in the Yokohama Action Plan (The report can also be seen on the MOFA’s website: (Japanese) (English)) It covers only the progress of the assistance measures reported so far and will be updated and published regularly.
The Government of Japan plans to hold a TICAD Process Monitoring Joint Committee (February 2009, in Tokyo) to compile a report based on the progress of each assistance measure and also hold a TICAD Follow-up Ministerial Meeting (March 2009, in Botswana) to discuss the implementation of the assistance measures based on the report. In addition, Japan has exchanged views regularly with members of the African Diplomatic Corps (ADC) in Tokyo. Japan intends to manage carefully the TICAD Follow-up Mechanism so that the assistance measures announced in TICAD IV will be steadily implemented.

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