Japan's Official Development Assistance White Paper 2013
(2) Partnership between the Government and Implementing Organizations
MOFA works with the implementing organization JICA to enable the prompt utilization of each type of ODA implementation policy such as the Priority Policy Issues for International Cooperation that MOFA formulates each fiscal year.
In October 2008, JICA, which had promoted implementation of technical cooperation and 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 development loans, 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 ODA implementing organization that provides technical cooperation, loan aid, and grant aid, in an integrated manner.