AnnualReport
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At a Glance
Profile of JICS
Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) is a public-service foundation whose activities primarily focus on aid project supervision
within the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programs and other cooperation programs with developing
countries. JICS is the only public agency in Japan specializing in procurement operations within the field of international cooperation.
“Procurement” refers to the acquisition of and payment for goods and services necessary to achieve a specific objective. Since itsestablishment in 1989, JICS has appropriately and effectively carried out the selection and procurement of goods and services (i.e.,transportation, design, construction, etc.) needed in local areas where cooperation projects are being implemented.
JICS aims to be a leader in procurement-related operations, with capabilities for executing a full spectrum of international cooperation needs. JICS has set its sights for the future on expanding operations on behalf of a broad range of international agencies and organizations and is working to build up its base of expertise and knowledge while focusing on the development of its human resources.
P Revenue by Type of ODA (FY2009) (Unit: million yen)
Multilateral ODA

 Others ............ 4............. 0.1%

 Programs with international agencies andorganizations, etc.
...............180.............4.9%
Other activities related to grant aid(studies, research, etc.)
7.7%

P Revenue by Client (FY2009)
Grant aid for general projects 0.1%

MultilateralODA

Grant assistance for the foodsecurity project forunderprivileged farmers(2KR) 7.2%
Grant assistance forthe food aid project(KR) 6.5%

Program grant aid for environmentand climate change 2.0%
Grant aid for community empowerment
24.5%

Others 0.4%
International agencies
and organizations,etc. 4.9%

Cultural grant aid
4.1%

Ministry of Foreign
Affairs 2.0%

Japan InternationalCooperation Agency(JICA)
19.4%

Bilateral ODA

Counterpart governments 73.3%

Bilateral ODA
 Grant aid............ 3,120........... 85.9%
 Technical cooperation............... 213............. 5.9%
 Loan aid (ODA loan)...............117............. 3.2%

Non-project grant aid
26.0%

Emergency grant aid 2.8%
Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding 3.0%
Grant aid for disaster prevention and reconstruction 2.0%

The JICS Vision
JICS is a public-service foundation working to ensure the appropriate and effective procurement of goods and services required indeveloping countries, within the framework of the Japanese government’s official development assistance and other support fordeveloping countries. JICS endeavors to carry out its operations in accordance with the following precepts.
JICS plays a bridging rolein assistance projects

JICS puts its knowledge
and experience to workin assistance projects

JICS maintains an impartial stanceto ensure fairness and transparency

JICS endeavors to manage its operations appropriately
and to train capable personnel

Outline of JICS
Name of Organization:
Japan International Cooperation System (JICS)
Head Office: Shinjuku EAST Building, 10-5, Tomihisa-cho, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 162-0067, JAPANMain Contact Information and Website:
Tel: +81-3-5369-6960
Fax: +81-3-5369-6961
E-mail: jics@jics.or.jp
URL: http://www.jics.or.jp/jics_html-e/index.html
President:
Toru Nakatani
Palestine
Vice President:
Niger
Takashi SakamotoSenegal
Mali
Date of Establishment:
Burkina Faso
 April 12, 1989 (Established as aGhana
Beninpublic-service foundation authorized
Sudan
by the Minister of Foreign Affairs)
UgandaMozambiqueEndowment:
Lesotho¥387 million
Number of Employees:
204 (as of November 1, 2010)

P Project Offices (26 offices)

Afghanistan
Pakistan
Nepal
BhutanBangladesh

Djibouti
Ethiopia
Kenya

Laos
VietnamIndonesia

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Contents
2 A Message from the President
3 Part 1 Principal Activities in FY2009
4 Highlights of Operations in FY20096	Special Feature: JICS’ Current Rolesand Functions

6		Continuous Expansion of JICS’ Procurement AgentServices

8		Grant Aid for Community Empowerment			Lesotho: A ssistance in Alleviating a Shortage ofSecondary School Classrooms			Vietnam: A Multi-Component Project forCommunity Empowerment
10		
Program Grant Aid for Environment and Climate
Change			Solar electricity generation

11 The Role of JICS in ODA
15 JICS’ Major Activities in FY200915		
Iraq: Reconstruction Assistance			Ambulance handover ceremony held in Baghdad[Emergency grant aid]
15		Pakistan: Assistance for the Federally AdministeredTribal Area (FATA)			Delivery of ambulances receives coverageby the Pakistani media[Non-project grant aid]
16
Burkina Faso:			Contributing to the alleviation of chronic food shortages[Grant assistance for the food aid project (KR)]16 	
Rwanda:			Fertilizer procurement contributes to increased foodproduction[Grant assistance for the food security project for underprivileged farmers (2KR)]
17 	
Mexico: Emergency Assistance for Countermeasures
to Prevent the Spread of a New Strain of Influenza			Procurement of infrared thermographies helps
strengthen quarantine measures[Emergency grant aid]
17 	Bulgaria:			Follow-up study facilitates the continued use ofaudio equipment[Cultural grant aid]
18		Ethiopia:			Handover ceremony for fertilizer[Non-project grant aid]18 	Sudan:			Country works to entrench peace through thestrengthening of vocational training programs[Grant aid for conflict prevention and peacebuilding]19 	Peru:			All post-earthquake rebuilding works completed[Grant aid for disaster prevention and reconstruction]
19 	Project Sequel: Java, Indonesia			Rebuilt schools are highly regarded
by local communities[Grant aid for disaster prevention and reconstruction]20
Procurement Support to Meet a Diverse Arrayof Needs[Technical cooperation]
20 	
JICS Dispatches Lecturer to Give Seminars
in Morocco and Tunisia[Loan aid (ODA loan)]21		Projects Commissioned by International Agenciesand Organizations				Preparing for pandemics caused by new influenza strains				Working to bolster logistics efficiency in the ASEAN region

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25 Part 2 Description of Projects
26 Countries Targeted for JICS Main Projects
28 Revenue by Scheme and Client
29 Revenue by Function
30 Revenue by Type of ODA (FY1989–FY2009)31 Revenues and Expenditures by Fiscal Year
32 Project Results by Country in FY2009
35 List of Projects in FY2009
35	  Grant Aid42	  Technical Cooperation
43	  Loan Programs
43	Business Contributing to the Promotion of theAppropriate and Efficient Implementation of International Cooperation Programs Carried Out byInternational Agencies and Organizations, Foreign
Governments and Other Organizations Engagedin International Cooperation
44	  Follow-up and After-care Activities

44	Research and Studies on Methods to Efficiently
Implement International Cooperation

44	Education and Support Promoting International
Cooperation

44	Other Activities Necessary to Achieve the Purposes of the Foundation

45 Reference Materials
45 FY2009 Business Report
46 FY2009 Statement of Revenues and Expenditures
47 FY2009 Balance Sheet
48 FY2009 Statement of Net Equity Increase (Decrease)
49 FY2009 Cash Flow Statement
50 A Brief History of JICS
51 Executive Management/Board of Trustees
52 Organization Chart
53	The Articles of Foundation of Japan International
56

Cooperation System (JICS)
Compliance

JICS Recent Events
Social Activities of JICS

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A Message from the President

A Message from the President

2In April 2009, Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) celebrated the20th anniversary of its establishment.
JICS was able to reach this importantmilestone thanks to the unwavering
support and cooperation it has received
from stakeholders in Japan and abroad.
Now in its 21st year of operation, JICS
remains focused on realizing its ultimate goal of becoming a procurement
agency that is recognized internationally as a leader in its field. As it strives tofurther enhance the quality of execution of international cooperation, JICS
is committed to fulfilling its role from astandpoint of fairness and impartiality
within the Japanese government’s ODA
programs, particularly bilateral grants.
As a procurement agency, by carryingout each project appropriately and efficiently, JICS aims to fulfill the missionthat society has set for it.
Within the Japanese government’s
ODA programs, the operations performed by JICS have focused primarilyon the procurement of goods andservices as part of grant aid, as wellas the provision of support for goodsand equipment procurement that isrelated to technical cooperation. From
this base, JICS has expanded the scopeof its operations to the broader fieldof international cooperation, including such areas as initial screening ofprocurement-related documentation
submitted by recipient countries as partof Japanese ODA loan procedures, aswell as operations not directly related toJapanese ODA, such as contracts commissioned by the ASEAN Secretariat
and other international agencies andorganizations. In retrospect, JICS went
through a period in which it was attempting to define its expanded role.
It took on new operations that went
beyond the organization’s traditionalambit. For example, in 2002 we began
reconstruction assistance operationsin Afghanistan, and then in 2004 we
commenced reconstruction assistance
operations in Iraq. Subsequently, in2005 we launched full reconstruction
assistance operations in response to
the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake andtsunami. With regard to these projects,
I wish to thank all of our stakeholders for their efforts, which I believe
were instrumental in the success weachieved in carrying out our duties. In
any case, the opportunity to undertakesuch large-scale projects represented
a major challenge for JICS and turned
out to be an important turning point forthe organization and the direction of its
operations.
The new roles JICS took on as partof the aforementioned reconstruction
projects included not only procurement of services but also supervisionof overall project execution in facility

restoration projects and a wide arrayof infrastructure construction projects.
These projects saw an expansion of thebreadth and depth of our operations
while the methods required for theexecution of such operations were also
vastly different to our traditional projects, which had been principally limited
to goods and equipment procurement.
We needed not only to fulfill our primary function of providing appropriate procurement operations that metquality assurance requirements but also
to act swiftly and flexibly in response
to a diverse range of needs, issues andproblems based on the requirementsof counterpart governments. We established a critical presence at eachproject execution site, and in doing so
the entire JICS organization focused onproviding the highest quality services
possible. We learned a great number oflessons through these experiences, andas a result I believe that JICS was able tobolster its capabilities and roles.
In recent years, based on our involvement in reconstruction assistanceprojects, we have been commissioned
to carry out procurement agent services related to grant aid schemes
newly established by the Japanese
government—“Grant aid for community empowerment” and “Grant aid fordisaster prevention and reconstruction” established in 2006 and “Program
grant aid for environment and climatechange” established in 2008. We havealso been commissioned to undertake
individual projects by international
agencies and organizations and foreign governments. While utilizing thestrengths we have accumulated to date,
we are working to further enhance theJapan International Cooperation System Annual Report 2009quality of our international cooperation
operations. Although our capabilities
are still relatively modest in scale, we
aim to contribute to the greatest extent
possible.
Meanwhile, as the environment
faced by public-service foundations inJapan undergoes significant changes,
the social mission that JICS must fulfill
goes beyond project supervision indeveloping countries. It is only properthat we should be fully accountable tothe people of Japan for what we do. To
this end, we must strive to provide thepublic with a high level of understanding of our role and the way in which we
carry out our operations. As part of thisprocess, we are working to strengthen
our organizational systems in such areas
as information disclosure, complianceand public relations.
As interest in ODA among the Japanese public and people working within
related institutions increases year byyear, we must spare no effort to live up
to the expectations of all of our stakeholders. In the future, in accordancewith the JICS Vision and the JICS Codeof Conduct, we must respond appropriately and expeditiously to various issues
and changes as we strive to steadily
implement our operations. We are committed to becoming an organization
capable of winning an increased levelof confidence among stakeholders inJapan and abroad. In these endeavors,
we look forward to your continued
guidance and encouragement.
Toru Nakatani
President
Japan International Cooperation System (JICS)