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JICA Partnership Program

JICA Partnership Program (JPP) is a technical cooperation program 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.

The main objectives of JICA Partnership Program is to meet diverse needs of developing countries by utilizing the knowledge and experience of various Partners in Japan for international cooperation activities strengthening the collaboration between communities of both developing countries and Japan by promoting the participation of Japanese citizens in such international cooperation activities. With these objectives, JICA select proposals from these Japanese entities, based on a review by JICA Brazil.

For Brazil, the Technical Cooperation for JICA Partnership Program must focus on areas:

• Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development: Environmental issues that not only involved the Amazon region, but also biomes that biodiversity had been threatened, such as Cerrados and Pantanal. The development of the local communities is also a focus of this matter.

• Assistance for socially vulnerable groups: The fact that Brazil have one of the worst rates of distribution of income in the world makes the country deals with serious social issues such as child labour, informal settlement growth, crimes committed by young people and teenagers.

• Community Development, especially in rural areas: Despite Brazil being a country with great farmers, the rural population suffers from lack of access to education, basic infrastructure and hospital care, which results in high rate of infant mortality in rural areas.

Components of JICA Partnership Project

Dispatch of persons from Japan and/or acceptance of persons from the recipient country for training in Japan are major components of JICA Partnership Program. Provision of equipment or the construction of buildings and facilities can be supported by JICA if they are included in the scope of the JPP Project. To know more about this program, please access the following web address:

http://www.jica.go.jp/english/schemes/citizen/part.html

Global Civil Society

The Japanese Government has various assistance programs to meet diverse needs of developing countries through Official Development Assistance (ODA). Even in international cooperation, the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) or local governments has become more important both in Japan and developing countries. Therefore, JICA Partnership Program was introduced by the executor agency for technical cooperation of the Government of Japan, JICA.

NGO-JICA Japan Desk

To help in this important task of consolidating international partnerships, the JICA provides service in Brazil a program so called NGO-JICA Japan Desk. One of the major tasks is to offer information about Brazil to Japanese entities.