Month/Year	Major Developments in Japanese Aid	Month/Year	International Developments in Aid
Jan. 1998	Council on ODA Reforms presents its final report.
Feb. 1998	Emergency economic stabilization measures for Southeast Asia are announced.
May 1998	Suspension, in principle, of new grant aid and yen loans to India and Pakistan because of their nuclear tests.
Jun. 1998	Enactment of the Basic Law on the Administrative Reform of the Central Government.
Oct. 1998	2nd Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD II) is held.
Oct. 1998	New Miyazawa Initiative is announced.
Nov. 1998	Japan dispatches an SDF unit to hurricane-devastated Honduras in its first overseas deployment as a Japan Disaster Relief Team.
Nov. 1998	Overseas Economic Cooperation-related ministries and agencies agree on the promotion of transparency and efficiency of ODA.
Nov. 1998	Japan-China summit meeting is held. A joint announcement is issued on Japan-China Environmental Cooperation Toward the 21st Century, and agreement is reached on the “latter two-year” portion of the fourth round of Yen Loans to China.
Dec. 1998	Special Yen Loan facility to assist economic structural reform is announced.
Mar. 1999	Trust Fund for Human Security is established in the United Nations.
Jul. 1999	LDP Special Committee on External Economic Cooperation announces its proposal for strategic implementation of economic cooperation toward the 21st century.
Aug. 1999	Medium-Term Policy on Official Development Assistance is announced.
Aug. 1999	House of Councillors Committee on Oversight of Administration adopts a resolution on ODA.
Sep. 1999	1st group of ODA Citizen-Monitors is dispatched.
Oct. 1999	Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is established.
Oct. 1999	The Overseas Economic Cooperation Operations implementation guidelines for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) are formulated and announced.
Apr. 2000	Japan announces additional debt-relief measures for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries.	2000	Apr. 2000
Apr. 2000	Cultural Aid for Cultural Heritage and Grant Assistance for Cultural Grassroots Projects start.
Apr. 2000	Start of Grant Assistance for NGOs’ Emergency Relief Projects (combined with NGO grant assistance in April of fiscal year 2000).
Apr. 2000	Measures to prevent improper and inappropriate activities that pertain to ODA projects are introduced.
Jul. 2000	2nd Japan-South Pacific Forum Summit Meeting is held in Miyazaki.
Jul. 2000	“Action from Japan on ‘Conflict and Development,’” “Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society,” “Japan’s Comprehensive Cooperation Package to Address the International Digital Divide,” and “Okinawa Infectious Diseases Initiative” are announced at the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit.
Aug. 2000	Japan Platform is established.
Oct. 2000	Ceremony to commemorate 20 years of Japan-China economic cooperation is held in Beijing.
Nov. 2000	“A New Framework for Japan-CARICOM Cooperation for the Twenty-first Century,” announced at the 1st Japan-CARICOM Ministerial-Level Conference in Tokyo.
Dec. 2000	Okinawa International Conference on Infectious Diseases is held.
Jan. 2001	Amendments to the MOfA Establishment Law take effect.
May 2001	1st Meeting of the Second Consultative Committee on ODA Reform is held.