September 2005
JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION SYSTEMSCHEME Grant Aid for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding is intended for assisting reintegration of former soldiers, helping recover small arms, and promoting ethnic
reconciliation in developing countries. It provides funds for procuring the necessary
equipment and services for conflict prevention and peacebuilding programs indeveloping countries.
This grant aid has been provided since FY2002 as a scheme within non-project
grant aid.

JICS’ Role
Since FY2002, in accordance with contracts withdeveloping countries’ governments, JICS has been
serving as a procurement management agent,
managing funds and overseeing and supporting
activities appropriate to various program formats.

Sierra Leone A vocational training class.
Many of the students areformer soldiers

Sierra Leone Boats were repaired, making it possible to transport
people and goods again

Sierra Leone A young girl pumping water from a well installed as partof support activities

Sierra Leone Repairs to water channels made it possible to flood
paddy fields and fill ponds at fish farms

SCHEME Grant Aid for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding

Flow of Operations
Requests for aid
from developing
countries

Screening by
Ministry ofForeign Affairs

Cabinet decision

Agreement
betweengovernments

Project management
serviceCompletion

Operations handled by JICS

Project Results
Project NameCountryYear

Sierra Leone

2002

Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding

Cambodia

2002

Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding (Peacebuilding and Comprehensive Small Arms Management Programme)

Cambodia

2004

Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding (Peacebuilding and Comprehensive Small Arms Management Programme)

Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding (Sierra Leone) FY2002● Project outline:

in support of the British government’s Community Reintegration Programme Phase 2 (CRP2), JICS supervised
funds provided by the Japanese government and monitored program effectiveness and how funds were used.

Joint Japan-Britain project contributing torehabilitation in Sierra Leone
The Community Reintegration Programme Phase 2(CRP2) implemented by the British government in Sierra
Leone is intended to promote rehabilitation in theaftermath of civil war in Sierra Leone by assisting social
reintegration of former soldiers and offering support in a
broad range of areas such as education, health care,infrastructure and others. This project, in which theJapanese government provided grant aid to Sierra Leone
to support the activities of CRP2, was the first time that theJapanese and British governments had cooperated in thearea of conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
As a project management service agent, JICS
conducted local monitoring in September 2003 andJanuary 2004, inspecting implementation of the project ina large area in the northern part of Sierra Leone. At a
vocational training school inspected by JICS, former
soldiers now in training said that by acquiring skills they
hoped to contribute to their country’s rehabilitation.
At the time of the first inspection trip, few citizens were
aware that Japan was participating in the project, but by
the time of the second trip, people in most regions knew
about Japan’s contributions. More people were out andabout and street vendors were more numerous,
indications that support for the program has contributed torehabilitating local communities and helped ensurestability in daily life.

A vocational school
student describinga table he made to
JICS staff (left) andBritish aid personnel (right)

Students holding their course completion certificates, whose design includes
the Japanese and British flags

Japan International Cooperation System (JICS)
Shinjuku EAST Building, 10-5, Tomihisa-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0067 JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-5369-6960 Fax: +81-3-5369-6961 E-mail: jics@jics.or.jp
URL: http://www.jics.or.jp/