Section 2. Project Budget for ODA-related Ministries and Agencies (Original Budget) and Project Outlines

Ministry or Agency	Project name (budget (¥ million))	Project Outlines
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	NGO project subsidies (33)	Financial assistance for the purpose of improving NGO's operation skills and expertise, to assist the NGO's project formulation, ex-post project assessment, seminars related to economic and social development projects in developing countries.
Management grant for the Japan Foundation (6,321)	The Japan Foundation implements efficient and comprehensive international cultural exchange activities in order to contribute to a better international environment, and to the maintenance and development of harmonious foreign relationships with Japan through deepening other nations' understanding of Japan, promoting better mutual understanding among nations, encouraging friendship and goodwill among the peoples of the world, and contributing to the world in culture and other fields.
Others (59,143)	(1) Conduct policy consultations in order to implement efficient and effective aid, formulate country based aid plans, and strengthen functions of the local ODA taskforce; (2) investigate the effectiveness of aid and make evaluations useful to the implementation of efficient and effective aid; and (3) report administrative expenses necessary for the implementation of ODA.
Total 221,347
Ministry of Finance	Needed resources for financial and economic technical cooperation (37,331)	(1) Hold seminars both in developing countries and in Japan. (2) Dispatch experts to developing countries. (3) Accept researchers from developing countries. (4) Conduct research on the economic situation and economic policy conditions of developing countries and hold workshops. Additionally, form ODA loan financed projects and provide technical cooperation related to ODA loan financed projects.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (including Japan Student Services Organization)	Promotion of the exchange of students (34,769)	Japan has made effort to promote the exchange of students based on the "Plan to Accept 100,000 Foreign Students" formulated in 1983 and other proposals. As a result, the number of foreign students studying in Japan, which was 10,000 in 1983 when the "Plan to Accept 100,000 Foreign Students" was formulated, increased to approximately 110,000 in 2003, surpassing the target number of 100,000. In May 2008, the number rose to approximately 124,000. Going forward, Japan will promote the "Plan for 300,000 Exchange Students," an initiative to accept 300,000 exchange students by 2020. (Examples of actual measures)
• Maintenance of the system for accepting foreign government-sponsored students: operations to invite promising young people from around the world, especially from developing countries, to Japan for education and research purposes in institutions of higher learning.
• Aid to privately-sponsored foreign students: provide learning incentive benefits to support privately-sponsored foreign students in Japanese institutions of higher learning and students in Japanese language institutions, as well as give subsidies to schools that reduce or exempt fees for privately-sponsored foreign students.
Others (3,369)	Cooperation through projects such as those that accept researchers and others from developing countries and the dispatch of experts to developing countries, as well as through international organizations in various fields such as Japanese education for foreigners, education, culture, and sports.
Total(*)	38,139
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare	(1,746)	(1) Develop human resources in the fields of health, medical and social welfare in developing countries and others. Conduct survey planning for waterworks.
(2) Promotion of the international cooperation project to fight tuberculosis, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the Measles Initiative, promotion of international research cooperation for leprosy, promotion of international cooperation for the rehabilitation of disabled persons, and projects such as those related to clinical studies of endemic diseases in developing countries.
(3) An appropriate and smooth promotion of training programs.
(4) Instructional aid to companies and organizations that accept foreign trainees.
(5) Acceptance of foreign government-sponsored students into Polytechnic University. Aid to create an appropriate skill evaluation system in developing countries.
(6) Aid toward the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Regional Skills and Employability Programme (SKILLS-AP), and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, and others.
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	(2,099)	The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries implements the following activities that are meaningful for the Ministry to implement itself by utilizing the expertise in fields such as technology development, fundamental investigation, and technology transfer accumulated through the advance of administrative operations of the Ministry.
(1) Contribution to global food security;
(2) aid for the resolution of global environmental issues such as desertification and global warming;
(3) the promotion of the preservation and creation of forests overseas and sustainable forest management; and
(4) securing overseas fishing grounds in cooperation with related countries and the smooth promotion of fisheries agreements.
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry	Research for overseas development plans (2,650)	The development of industrial production is the foundation of economic development in developing countries. As the first step in the development of industrial production, a research team of experts is dispatched to compile reports and specifications to promote the formulation of development plans and project implementation plans through local research and domestic operations in developing countries.