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What is Japan Desk?

What is the NGO JICA Japan Desk?

NGO-JICA Japan Desk is an activity of JICA which the main purpose is to promote the participation of Japanese group, organization, public institutions and individuals in implementing international cooperation activities.
NGO-JICA Japan Desk was established in 2002 and is now present in more than 20 countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America. In Brazil, NGO-JICA Japan Desk started its operation in São Paulo in June 2004. Now, it is established in Brasília, since March of 2006.

What is the role of NGO-JICA Japan Desk?

1. Supporting the activities of NGOs and other Japanese partners in Brazil.

• Provide basic information about Brazil, its laws and govern regulations on the activity of NGOs and other Japanese partners in Brazil.
• Provide information on Brazilian NGOs, and expose them to possible Japanese partners.
•Diminish doubts about JICA Partnership Program.

2. Facilitate the implementation of projects with the cooperation of NGOs and other Japanese partners.

• Linking Community Projects developed in Brazil that could be the object of partnership.
• Promote training of human resources involved in these projects.

3. Strengthen cooperation between NGOs and other Japanese partners and JICA.

• Provide information of trained human resources through JICA, such as alumni program.
• Promote exchange through seminars and workshops.

About JICA Partnership Program - JPP

JICA Partnership Program is a modality of technical cooperation implemented by JICA to contribute to the social and economic development of developing countries at the grass-roots level in collaboration with partners in Japan, such as NGOs, universities, local governments and public interest corporations.

Dispatch of persons from Japan and/or acceptance of persons from the recipient country for training in Japan are major components of JPP.

JPP can be carried out in 3 manners:

Support Type - JICA will support the activities of Japanese NGOs and partners that have development activities in Japan, but still do not have experience in international cooperation.

Partnership Type - JICA will support the activities of Japanese NGOs and Japanese partners that already have some experience in international cooperation.

Regional Proposal Type - JICA will support the activities of local governments in Japan that put into practice their knowledge and experience at the grassroots level in developing countries.

What are the main areas to JPP?

The main areas to JPP are those aimed at the improvement of living conditions in the communities. As instance, we can list the following areas:

• Community Development (rural communities, fisheries).
• Support for vulnerable groups in society, such as elderly, disabled, children, women and refugees.
• Medical care (community health, maternal and child health, public health, nutrition improvement, primary health care, reproductive health, HIV / AIDS).
• Assistance for income generating (incentive to traditional production and craftsmanship and also to cooperatives).
• Education (training of teachers, literacy, informal education, improvement of basic education, vocational qualification).
• Combating environmental degradation (combating pollution of water and air, treatment of solid waste).
• Sustainable use of natural resources (recovery of deteriorated land, control of forests and monitoring of water).

Priorities to Brazil

The following issues are the priorities to Brazil in terms of modality JICA Partnership Program

1. Environmental protection for sustainable development

Brazil, one of the largest countries in the world, has not only the Amazon rainforest, but biomes like Cerrado and the Pantanal. In this perspective, Brazil has valuable vegetation and biological diversity. An environmental protection and the improvement with sustainable development for the livelihood of local residents has become an urgent task to preserve such diversity.

2. Support (with education, health, income improvement, development to local industries, community development, etc.), to vulnerable groups in society.

Brazil is a country classified as middle-income country. However, Brazil has the world's largest gap between rich and poor. The poor doesn’t have the necessary social infrastructure. In general, child labor, underage involvement in drug crimes, street children and many other social problems are current.

3. Regional development (rural development)

Brazil also has high regional disparities between urban and rural areas. Small farmers account for a large part of the rural population. In rural areas, we can see people excluded from public services, low quality of basic education and health services. Also, illiteracy rate, infant mortality rate is very high.