Month/year	Major Developments in Japanese Aid	Month/year	International Developments in Aid
Apr. 2009	Pakistan Donors Conference is held in Tokyo. Japan announces that it will “provide Pakistan with assistance of up to 1 billion dollars over the next two years.”	Apr. 2009	Friends of Democratic Pakistan Group Ministerial Meeting is held in Tokyo.
Apr. 2009	Japan announces the “Growth Initiative towards Doubling the Size of Asia’s Economy,” a policy to help Asia overcome the global financial and economic crisis.	Apr. 2009	G20 London Summit is held
May 2009	The Fifth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM5) is held in Tomamu, Hokkaido. The Islanders’ Hokkaido Declaration is adopted.	Apr. 2009	World Bank/IMF Joint Development Committee meeting is held in Washington D.C.
May 2009	Minister for Foreign Affairs Hirofumi Nakasone and Minister of Foreign Affairs for Islamic Republic of Iran Manouchehr Mottaki announce in Iran the Joint Press Release on Japan-Iran Cooperation in Afghanistan.	May 2009	Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development is held in Paris.
Jun. 2009	Commencement of the expanded Program for Human Resource Development in Asia for Peacebuilding.	Jun. 2009	G8 Development Ministers’ Meeting is held in Rome.
Jun. 2009	United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development is held in New York.
Jul. 2009	2nd Global Review on Aid for Trade (AfT) is held in Geneva and announces the Development Initiative 2009.	Jul. 2009	35th G8 Summit (L’Aquila Summit) and the Leaders Meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate are held in L’Aquila, Italy.
Jul. 2009	Kandahar-Herat Road (Ring Road) completion ceremony is held.
Jul. 2009	Organizational reform of the International Cooperation Bureau within MOF.
Aug. 2009	Friends of Democratic Pakistan Group Ministerial Meeting is held in Istanbul.
Sep. 2009	Friends of Democratic Pakistan Group Summit-Level Meeting is held in New York.
Sep. 2009	UN Summit on Climate Change is held in New York. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama announces a target of “reducing greenhouse gases by 25% by 2020 if compared to the 1990 level.”
Sep. 2009	G20 Pittsburgh Summit is held.
Sep. 2009	UNRWA 60th anniversary high level event is held in New York.
Nov. 2009	First Meeting between the Heads of the Governments of Japan and the Mekong region countries is held in Tokyo. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama declares that “regarding the Mekong region as a prioritized area, Japan will continue the policy to expand its Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam (CLV countries) respectively as well as to the Mekong region as a whole. Japan commits more than 500 billion yen of ODA in the next 3 years for the Mekong region.”
Nov. 2009	An agreement is signed to provide a Japanese ODA loan of 54.9 billion yen in total to Viet Nam, including a Japanese ODA Loan, of 47.9 billion yen as the first case of an Emergency Budget Support.
Nov. 2009	Announcement of the New Strategy to Counter the Threat of Terrorism. For Afghanistan, Japan declares that it will provide assistance up to an amount in the region of five billion US dollars in about five years from 2009, based on the future situation of Afghanistan.