Month/Year	Major Developments in Japanese Aid	Month/Year	International Developments in Aid
Mar. 2006	Announcement of Water and Sanitation Broad Partnership Initiative (WASABI) at the 4th World Water Forum and the Ministerial Conference.	Mar. 2006	Asia 2015 is held in London.
Ministerial Conference of the 4th World Water Forum is held in Mexico.
G8 International Conference on Infectious Diseases is held in Washington D.C.
Apr. 2006	Overseas Economic Cooperation Council established. Council of Overseas Economic Cooperation-Related Ministries is abolished following a Cabinet decision to establish Overseas Economic Cooperation Council.	Apr. 2006
May 2006	1st Meeting of Overseas Economic Cooperation Council.	May 2006	Special Summit of African Union on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (ATM) is held in Abuja.
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is held in Tokyo.
United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) is held in New York.
May 2006	Law about Promotion of Administrative Reform to Realize a Simple yet Efficient Government approved (provided that the JICA Law will be revised and JICA will succeed affairs of overseas economic assistance of JBIC in FY2008).	May 2006
Jun. 2006	2nd Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the "Central Asia plus Japan" dialogue is held in Tokyo. "Action Plan" signed.	May 2006
Jun. 2006	Central Asia plus Japan Dialogue/First foreign ministers' meeting is held in Tokyo.	May 2006
Jun. 2006	4th Japan-Pacific Islands Forum Summit Meeting is held in Okinawa (Pacific Islands Summit).	May-Jun. 2006
Jul. 2006	2nd Tokyo Conference on Consolidation of Peace in Afghanistan.	Jul. 2006	32nd G8 Summit (Saint Petersburg Summit).
Jul. 2006	Prime Minister Koizumi visits the Middle East and announces "Corridor for Peace and Prosperity."	Aug. 2006	International Donor Conference for Lebanon is held in Stockholm.
UNITAID (a new funding mechanism for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs) launched.
1st Meeting of "Friends of Human Security" is held in New York.
Aug. 2006	International Cooperation Bureau established within MOfA. Reinforcement of project planning, formulation capacity, implementation system, bilateral and multilateral cooperation regime of ODA.	Sep. 2006
Oct. 2006	2006 Asian Regional Forum on Aid Effectiveness is held in Manila under cosponsorship.	Oct. 2006
Nov. 2006	Enactment of the law to revise the law for Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Dec. 2006	International Symposium on Human Security is held in Tokyo. Ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the first dispatch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) to China is held in Beijing.	Mar. 2007	TICAD Ministerial Conference on Energy and Environment for Sustainable Development is held in Kenya.
Meeting of the World Bank/IMF Development Committee is held in Washington.
High-level Launch of the International Compact with Iraq.
Asian Development Bank 40th Annual Meeting is held in Kyoto.
33rd G8 Summit, Heiligendamm, Germany.
Mar. 2007	1st meeting of the Advisory Council on International Cooperation (five meetings are held through November 2007).	2007
Jun. 2007	Japan's inauguration as chair of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (one-year term).	Apr. 2007
Jun. 2007	Conference on DIAG for the Stabilization of Afghanistan: Coordination with Police Reform is held in Tokyo.	May 2007
Sep. 2007	Start of the Pilot Program for Human Resource Development in Asia for Peacebuilding.	May 2007
Oct. 2007	Opening of United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) Hyogo Office in Kobe.	Jun. 2007
Nov. 2007	Policy Speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura: Global Health and Japan's Foreign Policy - From Okinawa to Toyako (in Tokyo).	Sep. 2007	Ministerial-level conference by the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for Assistance to the Palestinian People (AHLC) is held in New York.
Paris Pledging Conference on aid to the Palestinians is held in Paris.
Dec. 2007	Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza is held in New Delhi.	Dec. 2007	Paris Pledging Conference on aid to the Palestinians is held in Paris.
Dec. 2007	End of new ODA loans to China.	2008
Jan. 2008	Keynote speech by Prime Minister Fukuda at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos (announcing the policy speech for the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit and the Cool Earth Initiative including countermeasures against global warming by developing countries)	Apr. 2008
Feb. 2008	Policy speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs Koumura: Global Water Governance - Improving Access to Safe Water and Sanitation	Apr. 2008
Mar. 2008	4th annual meeting of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) is held in Tokyo	Apr. 2008	G8 (G8 Development Ministers' Meeting) is held in Tokyo
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XII is held in Ghana
10th meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum (APF) is held in Tokyo
The Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) technical meeting and related meetings is held in Tokyo
Apr. 2008	Policy speech by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura: Education for All: Human Resource Development for Self-Reliance and Growth