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JICA was formed in 2003 [citation needed] as a result of a comprehensive overhaul of Japan's ODA. It is now one of the largest bilateral development organizations in the world, with a network of 97 overseas offices, projects in more than 150 countries, and available financial resources of approximately 1 trillion yen ($8.5 billion).
The institute's output was criticised in underground publications during the martial law regime because its research findings were not being released in the Philippines, and were instead only being submitted to JICA to satisfy grant requirements, [6] given that the majority of the patients it served were research patients, while the Philippine ...
Mission: JICA, in accordance with the Development Cooperation Charter, will work on human security and quality growth. Vision: Leading the world with trust JICA, with its partners, will take the lead in forging bonds of trust across the world, aspiring for a free, peaceful and prosperous world where people can hope for a better future and explore their diverse potentials.
In 2010, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) formulated the creation of an expressway network under the High Standard Highway Network Development Master Plan, focusing on a growth area within 200 km (120 mi) of Metro Manila. The DPWH, under JICA's assistance, completed the feasibility study for the proposed Central Luzon ...
In November 2015, the Philippine government under President Noynoy Aquino and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a $2-billion loan agreement for the JICA to fund part of the construction of a railway system between the Tutuban railway station in Manila to Malolos, Bulacan in the Philippines, which is targeted to become the ...
The program is similar to the U.S. Peace Corps, [2] and includes volunteers in wide range of fields such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, education, health, and more than 120 technical fields. Since 1965, more than 30,000 Japanese volunteers have been dispatched to more than 80 developing countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Central and ...
Another study about the integration of Metro Manila's railway network by JICA in 2001 proposed the through-operation of both railways in two options, such as an elevated section running 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) on the existing PNR old right-of-way or an underground section running 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Tayuman to Vito Cruz.
JICA-RI was established on October 1, 2008, when the new JICA was launched as a result of merger of two existing institutions; former JICA which had been executing mainly technical cooperation and grant aid projects, and a part of JBIC (the Japan Bank for International Cooperation), which had been in charge of concessional yen loans.