Development Co-operation Reviews: Japan 1999 [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1999.
Japan is the leader in volume among DAC donors, but it ranks 19th out of 21 bilateral Members in terms of ODA as a percentage of GNP. Compared to other Members, its aid programme has a higher proportion of loans, with preference towards Asia and lower middle-income countries, and a heavy emphasis on assistance for economic infrastructure as opposed to the social sectors. Japan is making major efforts to improve its aid programme through an administrative reform, piloting the new international development strategy, a country-focused approach, and a push towards increased quality, transparency, and efficiency. The DAC encourages these developments and recommends that Japan should: - strengthen staffing and decentralisation; - enhance NGO involvement; - mainstream cross-cutting issues such as poverty, gender, and governance; - design and evaluate projects with a view towards cost-efficiency, sustainability, technological appropriateness, and socio-economic impact; - and ensure policy dialogue with recipient countries.
 Summary and Conclusions  -- Chapter 1. Overall Framework and New Developments  -- Overview -- ODA Charter and Japan’s philosophy on aid -- ODA reforms -- Administrative reform -- Support for the international development strategy (IDS)  -- Country strategy approach  -- Council on ODA Reform -- Transparency and efficiency -- OECF/JEXIM merger -- Asian crisis -- The Second Tokyo International Conference on African Development  -- Chapter 2. Organisational Structure and Aid Management  -- Overall structure  -- Economic Co-operation Bureau (ECB) of MOFA  -- Implementing agencies  -- JICA -- OECF -- Aid co-ordination with other donors -- NGOs -- MOFA support to NGOs -- Postal Savings for International Voluntary Aid (POSIVA) -- Situation of Japanese NGOs  -- Information and public opinion  -- Public information efforts  -- Information disclosure  -- Local governments  -- Japan Overseas Co-operation Volunteers (JOCV)  -- Public opinion  -- Chapter 3. Sectoral, Cross-Cutting and Effectiveness Issues -- Health  -- Education -- Environment -- Water and sanitation  -- Basic human needs -- Poverty -- Gender equality -- Governance and corruption -- Evaluation and effectiveness  -- Chapter 4. Policy Coherence  -- Introduction  -- Institutional framework -- Trade patterns  -- Market access for developing countries  -- Agriculture -- Fisheries  -- Manufactured products— Footwear and Textiles -- The Generalised System of Preferences  -- Investment flows -- Policies  -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Basic Profiles  -- ODA volume -- Contribution to multilaterals -- Main categories of the programme -- Instruments  -- Geographical distribution  -- Income distribution  -- Sectoral distribution  -- Tying and procurement  -- Debt relief -- ANNEX I. &nbsp;EXCERPTS FROM JAPAN’S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE CHARTER ADOPTED BY THE CABINET IN 1992 -- ANNEX II CHINA REPORT -- ANNEX III GHANA REPORT -- ANNEX IV COUNCIL ON ODA REFORMS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (EXCERPTS FROM SUMMARY OF FINAL REPORT)  -- ANNEX V THE OUTLINE OF THE MEMORANDUM ON ENHANCEMENT OF TRANSPARENCY AND EFFICIENCY OF ODA(27 NOVEMBER 1998) -- ANNEX VI JAPAN’S NEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME FOR AFRICA IN LINE WITH THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT (TICAD) II AGENDA FOR ACTION -- ANNEX VII STATISTICS OF AID AND OTHER FLOWS  -- PRESS RELEASE OF DAC PEER REVIEW OF JAPAN -- DESCRIPTION OF KEY TERMS
Japan is the leader in volume among DAC donors, but it ranks 19th out of 21 bilateral Members in terms of ODA as a percentage of GNP. Compared to other Members, its aid programme has a higher proportion of loans, with preference towards Asia and lower middle-income countries, and a heavy emphasis on assistance for economic infrastructure as opposed to the social sectors. Japan is making major efforts to improve its aid programme through an administrative reform, piloting the new international development strategy, a country-focused approach, and a push towards increased quality, transparency, and efficiency. The DAC encourages these developments and recommends that Japan should: - strengthen staffing and decentralisation; - enhance NGO involvement; - mainstream cross-cutting issues such as poverty, gender, and governance; - design and evaluate projects with a view towards cost-efficiency, sustainability, technological appropriateness, and socio-economic impact; - and ensure policy dialogue with recipient countries.
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