Overview of
Japan's Medium-Term Policy on Official Development Assistance
February 4, 2005
1. Medium-Term Policy
- positioned under the ODA Charter
- focuses mainly on issues that Japan needs to present its position at home and abroad
- explains Japan's approach and actions to address urgent development challenges such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and peace-building
- a driving force to realize the ODA Charter
2. Perspective of "human security"
- describes Japan's position and approach to adopt the perspective of "human security" in ODA
- presents concrete examples in the appendix [PDF]
[Text Version]
- promotes understanding of "human security"
3. Priority issues
- describes Japan's position, approach and specific actions regarding poverty reduction, sustainable growth, addressing global issues and peace-building in accordance with the ODA Charter
- presents Japan's approach to poverty reduction which is a core issue of the MDGs
- presents actions for sustainable growth based on the experience of development in East Asia and policies for making use of ODA to assist economic partnerships
- demonstrates comprehensive and coherent actions for disaster prevention in view of the major earthquake occurred off the coast of Sumatra and tsunami in the Indian Ocean
- presents Japan's approach and specific actions for peace-building
4. Measures to ensure the efficient and effective implementation of assistance
- describes efforts to strengthen functions at the field level in order to enhance the policy-making and implementation system
- explains specific actions for strengthening functions of ODA Task Forces, composed of Japanese embassies and the local offices of aid agencies such as JICA and JBIC
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