Japanese ODA and Reform

GDF Publications

Discussion Paper

• No.16 Izumi Ohno  (January 2007)
  Country-Specific Growth Support in East Asia and Africa-Japan's ODA to Vietnam and Ghana
• No.12 TAKAHASHI Motoki (April 2005)
  Development Coordination: A challenge to Japan's development assistance for poor countries
• No.9 Shigeru Ishikawa (March 2005)
  Supporting Growth and Poverty Reduction: Toward Mutual Learning from the British Model in Africa and the Japanese Model in East Asia
• No.1 Izumi Ohno and Kenichi Ohno (March 2002)
  Global Development Strategy and Japan's ODA Policy
  * paper presented at SNU conference in October 2001, revised March 12, 2002

Report

• 
  Izumi Ohno & Yumio Niiya
  Good Donorship and the Choice of Aid Modalities--Matching Aid with Country Needs and Ownership
  December 2004 (pdf file,378KB)

  GRIPS Development Forum
  Japan's Development Cooperation in Vietnam: Supporting Broad-based Growth with Poverty Reduction
  May 2002 (pdf file, 313KB)
  *This paper was prepared for the Consultative Group Meeting in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, May 23-24, 2002.

  Kenichi Ohno
  East Asian Growth and Japanese Aid Strategy 
  (This book collects his recent essays.) February 2003
  Contents

ODA Reform: Five Recommendations, by the Multi-sectoral Task Froce for the Reform of Japanese ODA

                                       -Moving into the 21st century- "Development Cooperation (DC)" 
                                                                                                                               <<click here! 

ODA Manifesto  -By the Group for Renovating Japanese ODA-

  <<click! ODA Manifesto  

—30 Proposals for Enhanced International Cooperation—

October 2007

• A multi-stakeholder group of Japanese professionals from diverse backgrounds, including politics, media, business, NGOs, academia, government, and aid implementing agencies gathered voluntarily in a personal capacity, sharing a sense of crisis in the current state of Japan’s ODA.
  　
• The group intensively discussed how to renovate Japan’s ODA in the immediate future, i.e., what is wrong with the Japanese ODA, what should be improved, and what actions should be taken with a common awareness of the issue. The group met twelve times between July 2006 and October 2007, and on the basis of the discussions, formulated a set of specific policy proposals (ODA Manifesto).
  　
• This is the first, major multi-stakeholder effort to formulate a concrete ODA reform proposal. We now wish to present this Manifesto to many citizens interested in ODA, as well as related parties in the legislative and executive branches of the Government, and act to renovate Japan’s ODA.

Please refer to the following website for details in Japanese of the discussions leading up to the formulation of this Manifesto. >>ODA Salon

This English translation of the Manifesto was supported by the British Embassy in Japan.

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