JAPAN'S COOPERATION FOR AFRICA BY FIGURE

ODA

Official Development Assistance
ODA is a premise of activities for economic cooperation led by the governments of industrialized countries aiming at the economic and social development, the improvement of welfare, and the stabilization of human life.
The DAC (Development Assistance Committee) indicates the ODA standards as follows:
1 The fund is supplied by a government or a governmental agency; 2 the objective of the funding is to contribute to the development of economy and the improvement of welfare in developing countries; and 3 in order to eliminate the hardship of developing countries, the grant element (indicator of assistance when a untied grant is counted as 100%) should be over 25%.

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DAC

Development Assistance Committee
One of the three major committees of the OECD (Organization for Economic Corporation Development).
In 1960, the USA advocated for the erection of the DAG (Development Aid Group), and in the following year when the OECD was founded the DAC was erected anew. As of September 2003 the DAC consists of 22 economically developed countries and the European Committee countries. (Japan joined the DAG prior to its joining into the OECD in 1964.)
The DAC holds executive meetings as necessary to discuss various issues, such as the exchange of aid-related information, policy adjustment, an evaluation of international assistance programs and policies by member countries. It periodically publishes Chairman's Reports.

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Technical Cooperation

The term refers to part of the economic cooperation aiming at technical diffusion and improvement of its standard toward the people living in various areas in developing countries. According to the classification by the DAC, technical cooperation on government bases is regarded as a bilateral aid.
Bilateral technical cooperation is conducted by the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The technical assistance of the JICA includes dispatching experts, invitation of trainees to Japan, "technical cooperation project" combined with loans of equipments essential for technical assistance,"development-related research"' to help formulate public development projects which contribute to developing countries' social and economic development, and volunteer activities such as dispatching JOCV and senior overseas volunteers. As for technical cooperation aside from activities programmed and executed by the central government, Japan invites trainees and dispatch experts through operations at over thirteen ministries.

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Grant Aids

Grant Aid is a form of monetary assistance involving the provision of funds to the governments of developing countries without the obligation of repayment. The Japanese government provides funds, instead of equipments and facilities. Target fields eligible for grant aids are basically limited to the BHN (Basic Human Needs), with low profit, such as medical care and other health- and sanitation-related matters, water supply, primary and secondary education, agriculture and agricultural development, environment and human development, all of which are difficult to assist through loan aids.

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