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The Technical Cooperation Project encompasses comprehensive and long-term cooperation that combines equipment provision, dispatch of experts, and holding of training programs based on bilateral agreements between Japan and recipient countries. The recipient country also provides facilities and operation expenses.
The Projects are implemented by JICA in collaboration with relevant authorities and additional support for terminated projects may be granted where needed.
Typical examples in the environmental field are the support to the Environmental Center in the countries in the above diagram. These technical cooperation projects have been implemented in association with the grant aid for facility and equipment, which does not require reimbursement.
Besides Environmental Center projects, the Japanese government executes a wide range of technical cooperation in various countries.
Experts in such areas as environmental monitoring, environmental administration, and nature conservation are dispatched to developing countries through JICA in collaboration with local governments, and other relevant organizations in order to promote technical cooperation to environmental administrative organizations, research institutes, etc.
The Ministry of the Environment, in collaboration with local governments, promotes training programs for human resource development, and human resource database construction for smooth dispatch of experts.
Environment Center
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The Environmental
Research and Training Center in Thailand |
Opened in March 1992 for integrated implementation
of environmental research, training, and monitoring. |
The Japan-China
Friendship Environmental Protection Center |
Opened in May 1996 to upgrade the level
of environmental observation and data processing and to implement
environmental research and training. |
The Environmental
Management Center in Indonesia |
Opened in August 1993 to establish environmental
monitoring, gather analyze, and supply environment data, and
to train government officials and private-sector engineers. |
The National
Center for Environment in the Republic of Chile |
Established by the University of Chile
as a non-profit organization for research, environmental information,
human resources development, and awareness education. The
center received assistance from Japan in the area of air and
water quality and waste disposal in a five-year plan starting
June 1995. |
The National
Center for Environmental Research and Training in Mexico |
Japan has been assisting the center established by Mexico for human resources development in the environmental field since July 1995. |
The Environmental
Monitoring Training Project in Egypt |
Support has been provided since September
1997 to the project by Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
aimed at building an environmental monitoring network, etc. |
The Biodiversity
Information Center in Indonesia |
Established in May 1997 for biodiversity
conservation. |
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