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JICA in Brazil
Brazil is one of the biggest recipients of Japanese technical cooperation.
The total amount of JICA’s cooperation to Brazil until 2006 accumulated up to 94 billion yens, which put Brazil in the 6th place after Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, China and Malaysia.
The priority areas for assistance are conservations of environment, reduction of social disequality.
The Japan-Brazil policy dialogue held in 2004 resulted in the identification of six priority areas for assistance:
(1) the environment
(2) industry
(3) agriculture
(4) health
(5) social development
(6) tripartite cooperation.
Based on this, the following were identified as priority development issues: (1) environmental conservation (the natural environment, including the preservation of biodiversity and efficient utilization of natural resources, and the urban environment, including air and water pollution countermeasures and waste disposal); (2) enhancing international competitiveness (improving infrastructure to raise productivity, promote SMEs, and encourage exports); (3) regional and social development to correct interregional inequalities (priority development and enhanced public safety in northeast and north Brazil); and (4) promotion of tripartite cooperation (active implementation of third-country and collaborative training programs, promotion of the Japan-Brazil Partnership Program, and fuller use of third-country experts of Japanese descent).
