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Prime Minister James Marape championed the Pacific’s climate push at the 76th United Nations General Assembly with a proposal to preserve PNG’s rainforest in exchange for development financing.

English News and Press Release on World about Protection and Human Rights, Recovery and Reconstruction and Epidemic; published on 14 Jun 2021 by UN Women

  Whitehall sources have told Channel 4 News that a plan to send surplus PPE to India was delayed as the Treasury insisted the items would have to count towards overall aid spending – recently capped at 0.5 per cent of national income down from the 0.7, which had been the decades old standard. A government source has confirmed that £813 million donated to provide coronavirus vaccines and other tools for the developing world also forms part of the overseas aid budget, known as Official Dev...

Major General Dr. Sanjeewa Munasinghe, Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Yamada Tetsuya, Chief Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Sri Lanka Office have signed a Bilateral agreement between the two parties representing the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka and JICA for JICA’s emergency technical cooperation grant named the Project for Strengthening COVID-19 Response. Senior officials from the Ministry of Health and JICA Sri Lanka Office, including Dr. Sunil De A...

Japanese firms rank Kenya top investment spot Monday April 05 2021 By PATRICK ALUSHULA The East Asian country affiliated firms cited Kenya’s position as the economic hub of East Africa. The firms also pointed to expanding demand for infrastructure, potential of geothermal power, growing car industry and the existence of Japan’s Official Development Assistance. Kenya is the most attractive destination for Japanese firms seeking to make new investments in Africa, a survey has shown, beating t...

Share A Cambodian student takes the final practical exam for the higher diploma in electrical work. Photo supplied People-centric projects are top priority for JICA in the Kingdom Mon, 15 March 2021 The government’s goal of Cambodia becoming a high middle-income country by 2030 before reaching high-income status by 2050 could well become a reality given Cambodia’s stellar economic growth of 7.3 per cent over a decade, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, these ambitious targets can on...

Time is running out: urgent action needed to address humanitarian crisis in Tigray Format Introduction With the situation in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region at a dangerous turning point, the international community has yet to take decisive action. Diplomatic, humanitarian, and human rights groups have increasingly spoken out, urging the Ethiopian government to allow relief workers to deliver adequate levels of emergency aid to the beleaguered population. Unfortunately, they have had little ...