Japan's Official Development Assistance White Paper 2007
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(3) Collaboration between Government and Implementing Agencies
Implementing assistance efficiently and effectively requires not only collaboration among related government ministries and agencies but also systematic, integrated collaboration among the government and implementing agencies.
The government establishes clear strategies for each country, region and sector through discussions held in the Overseas Economic Cooperation Council and formulates diverse programs of international cooperation through the establishment of country-based assistance programs.
MOFA informs the implementing agencies of the priority objectives formulated for each fiscal year by MOFA based on the results of discussions by the Overseas Economic Cooperation Council, and collaborates with the implementing agencies so that these objectives can be reflected in the prompt implementation of assistance.
Systems must be built in order that the new JICA can provide assistance in a responsive and prompt manner consistent with the strategies and policies established by the government. For this reason, new organizations and operational procedures are being created in order that assistance can be implemented taking advantage the special characteristics of the three aid instruments and combining them organically. Since FY2006, MOFA, JICA and JBIC have been jointly advancing the design of these systems.
System design seeks the integration of new systems and organizational culture befitting a comprehensive assistance agency, and this integration is effected in accordance with three principles: efficiency and mobility, synergy effects, and unity, in order to create an organization suited to undertake the implementation of international cooperation in a new era.
The Three Principles of Integration
Efficiency and mobility: Simple and rational decision-making and a mechanism for responsive and prompt implementation
Synergy effects: An emphasis on systematic linkages between the three aid instruments
Unity: Realization of an organization where people from different backgrounds can feel unity
Efficiency and mobility: Simple and rational decision-making and a mechanism for responsive and prompt implementation
Synergy effects: An emphasis on systematic linkages between the three aid instruments
Unity: Realization of an organization where people from different backgrounds can feel unity