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(Annex 3)

Japan's Support for the Consolidation of Peace in Africa:
Policy Guidelines by Sector

February 2006
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

The Government of Japan will steadily implement its expanded support for peace consolidation in Africa announced at the G8 Gleneagles Summit based on the following policy guidelines. This includes Japan's assistance amounting to approximately US$60 million announced at the TICAD Conference on Consolidation of Peace.

Security

  • Actively contribute to demobilization, disarmament and reintegration (DDR), focusing on reintegration of ex-combatants with emphasis on vocational training, as well as of ex-child soldiers or families of ex-soldiers.
  • Actively support security sector reform, especially reform and capacity building of the police, in close collaboration with DDR programs to ensure security at the community level.
  • Strengthen the control and reduction of small arms and light weapons (SALWs), which is indispensable to security, through regional arrangements such as the Nairobi Protocol and through the ECOWAS.
  • Focus on the collection of SALWs and awareness raising at the community level through such programs as Arms for Development, and to support the strengthening of the national legal system, export-import and border controls and capacity building for enforcement.

Political Governance and Transition

  • Actively support elections and capacity building of administrative and legal experts, where the relevant parties are strongly committed to restructuring of political governance and judicial system.
  • Actively extend support to national reconciliation, especially to truth and reconciliation commissions or war crime tribunals agreed on by all relevant parties based on firm ownership, as well as to co-existence projects for reconciliation or peace education.

Community Reconstruction and Socio-economic Development

  • Strongly support seamless assistance from humanitarian to reconstruction phases, focusing on human security, by actively participating in UN Peacebuilding Commission, as well as in close collaboration with other development partners.
  • Promote self-sustained efforts through such activities as vocational training, with due respect to ownership and initiatives for reintegration and reconciliation by the local community to accommodate refugees, returnees and ex-combatants.
  • Implement multi-sector assistance through such initiative as African Village Initiative, focusing on basic human needs such as water, sanitation and health, as well as education and agriculture.
  • Focus on demining, victim support and risk education based on national development planning in the area of mine action.
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