Official Development Assistance (ODA)

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Foreword (PDF)

Table of Contents (PDF)

Part I The 60th Anniversary of Japan's ODA:Its Achievements and Future Directions

Chapter 1 The Track Record of Japan's ODA (PDF)

• Section 1 The Trajectory of Japan's ODA
• Section 2 What Japan's ODA Achieved in 60 Years

Chapter 2 The Future of Japan's Development Cooperation (PDF)

Part II Official Development Assistance in FY2013

Chapter 1 Japan's Official Development Assistance in Terms of Disbursement (PDF)

Chapter 2 Specific Initiatives of Japan's Official Development Assistance (PDF)

• Section 1 Measures for Each Priority Issue
  1. Poverty Reduction (PDF)
  2. Sustainable Growth (PDF)
  3. Addressing Global Issues (PDF)
  4. Peacebuilding (PDF)
• Section 2 Assistance for Each Region (PDF)
  1. East Asia (PDF)
  2. South Asia (PDF)
  3. Central Asia and Caucasus (PDF)
  4. Middle East and North Africa (PDF)
  5. Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)
  6. Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF)
  7. Oceania (PDF)
  8. Europe (PDF)
• Section 3 Operational Status of the Principle of Assistance Implementation (PDF)
• Section 4 Formulation and Implementation of the Development Cooperation Policy (PDF)
  1. Formulation and Implementation of Development Cooperation Policy
  2. Increasing Public Participation
  3. Requirements for Implementation of Strategic and Effective Assistance

Part III Statistics and Reference Materials

Chapter 1 Japan's ODA Budget (PDF)

Chapter 2 Japan's ODA Disbursements (PDF)

Chapter 3 List of Bilateral Assistance Projects (PDF)

Chapter 4 ODA Disbursements through Multilateral Institutions (PDF)

Chapter 5 Reference Materials on Japan's ODA (PDF)

(Reference) Other Countries' ODA Disbursement (PDF)

Abbreviations (PDF)

Stories from the field

1. Giving people who missed out on an education a second chance (PDF)
   - Promoting a "Non-formal Education" in Pakistan Stories from the field
2. Building a dam to ensure a stable supply of water through community involvement (PDF)
   - Grass-roots assistance for the construction of a sand dam in Makueni County, Kenya
3. Dried fish business empowers women in Sri Lanka (PDF)
   - Support for women struggling against poverty in a Sri Lankan fishing village
4. Next-generation human resources fostered by Japanese-style management and business (PDF)
   - The Myanmar-Japan Center for Human Resources Development
5. A Japanese attempt to bring back an African wetland (PDF)
   - Residents of Uganda place high hopes on a wetlands management project
6. How the disaster management technology of Japan, a disaster-prone nation, saved 5,000 villagers from flooding (PDF)
   - Japanese engineers struggle against natural dam collapsing in Indonesia
7. The techniques and spirit of Japanese Judo contribute to the improvement of security in Afghanistan (PDF)
   - Support for the training of the Afghan National Police in Turkey
8. The construction of Southeast Asia's longest raw water transfer tunnel to alleviate water shortage problems in Kuala Lumpur (PDF)
   - How a Japanese general contractor successfully dug a tunnel under a Malaysian mountain range
9. Japanese Kaizen Methods: Improving Quality, Improving Productivity (PDF)
   - A Kaizen Promotion Project to Support the Manufacturing Sector in Ethiopia
10. The Japanese abacus and the children of an island country (PDF)
    - Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers teach the abacus in Tonga
11. Helping IDPs to become self-reliant and get along with local residents in a land shaken by conflict (PDF)
    - Cooperation by an NGO for the development of vegetable fields and wells in Sudan, Africa

Master Techniques -From Japan to the World-

1. A Japanese SME's attempt to save infants in a developing country (PDF)
   - Improving the diagnosis level of neonatal jaundice in Viet Nam
2. A social business provides safe water for all through the sale of rainwater tanks (PDF)
   - Promoting the use of rain water tanks across Bangladesh, a country with worsening water problems
3. A unique construction method to avoid traffic congestion (PDF)
   - A proposal for construction innovation in Indonesian sewage pipe infrastructure
4. Alleviating urban traffic jams with an IT-driver information distribution system (PDF)
   - A trial in Gujarat, India, by a Kyoto-based venture company
5. A heat-resistant camera that can give a clear image of the insides of high-temperature furnaces contributes to economic development and environmental protection in India (PDF)
   - A feasibility study and pilot project at a national steel and power plant in India
6. Japanese recycling methods contribute to the improvement of the environment in Africa (PDF)
   - How an SME from Ishikawa Prefecture introduced eco-friendly automobile recycling in Nigeria
7. Bringing vegetation back to the denuded land around a volcano (PDF)
   - An industry-academia collaboration tends the soil in Indonesia in order to green and revitalize the land

ODA Topics

1. The Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Initiatives of Japan (PDF)
2. Creating a society in which all women shine (PDF)
3. International Cooperation for Disaster Risk Reduction (PDF)
   (The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction)
4. The 50th Anniversary of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (PDF)
   - The Countless Possibilities Brought About by JOCVs
5. Highlights from the Annual Report on Japan's ODA Evaluation 2014 (PDF)
   - For Improving ODA through Evaluation