Chief Representative of the JICA Vietnam Office Shimizu Akira grants an interview to the Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: VNA)
So said Chief Representative of the JICA Vietnam Office Shimizu Akira in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency.
He noted that cooperating with Vietnam since 1992, JICA has provided over 3 trillion JPY (23.5 billion USD) in financial aid, sent about 15,000 Japanese experts to the Southeast Asian country, and trained 27,000 Vietnamese personnel.
Via close cooperation with Vietnamese partners, JICA projects have obtained substantial achievements, helping the country realise the Sustainable Development Goals and promote cohesion and development across the entire Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
In fiscal year 2021, 10.8 billion JPY in loans was committed for Japan’s ODA projects, 4.9 billion JPY in assistance supplied via technical cooperation projects, and another 700 million JPY for non-refundable aid projects. These projects numbered more than 100, according to Shimizu.
