Official Development Assistance (ODA)

The Committee for Proper Implementation of Grant Aid

January, 2006
Japanese

The Committee for Proper Implementation of Grant Aid was established under the auspices of the Director-General, Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in December, 2002 with the participation of specialists in finance, development economics, law and accounting as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to assure proper implementation of grant aid and to enhance its transparency.
The committee will hold discussions on various stages of project implementation such as the submission of the projects to the Cabinet meetings, tendering, actual phase of implementation of the projects and ex-post evaluation at project level. The discussion will take up a number of issues with particular emphasis on proper implementation of grant aid.
The outline of the meeting has been posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs official website.

1. Members

Kazuyuki Nishikawa: Chairman, Public Accounting Research Council (Former Secretary-General, Board of Audit of Japan)
Izumi Ono: Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Eiji Ogawa: Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University
Minoru Shikita: Chairman, Asia Crime Prevention Foundation (Former Chief, Nagoya High Public Prosecutor's Office)
Tsuneo Sugishita: Professor, College of Humanities, Ibaraki University
Masako Hoshino: Special Advisor, Japan International Volunteer Center

Akiko Seto: Deputy Principal, Japan College of Foreign Languages Director, Japan Overseas Cooperative Association (JOCA)

In principle to be held every two months (before the Cabinet meeting compiling grant aid projects)