Japan's Official Development Assistance White Paper 2012
(2) Partnership between the Government and Implementing Organizations
MOFA works with the aid-implementing organization JICA to enable the prompt utilization of each type of aid implementation policy such as the Priority Policy Issues for International Cooperation that MOFA formulates each fiscal year.
In October 2008, JICA, which had implemented technical cooperation and promoted grant aid, and the overseas economic cooperation division of the former Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), which had been in charge of providing ODA loans and other loan aid, were merged into a new JICA. A portion of the work related to implementation of grant aid that had been handled by MOFA was transferred to JICA, making it a comprehensive aid organization that provides technical cooperation, loan aid, and grant aid, in an integrated manner.