Japanese ODA team in city

The monitoring team includes university students, businessmen and other professionals who represent Japanese taxpayers. After returning to Japan they will report to their government as well as to the people through news media.

The team will visit various project sites such as Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge, Mother and Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Participatory Rural Development Project in Tangail, Japanese NGO Asia Arsenic Network in Jessore, Rural Electrification Board in Jhenidah, Multi-bilateral cooperation programme on education with UNICEF, and Mother and Child Health Clinic of Nari Maitree in Dhaka.

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The Japanese government has introduced this new monitoring scheme from 1999 with a view to enhancing the transparency of project implementation and the participation of Japanese people in the ODA programme.

Similar groups have been sent to Vietnam, Mongolia, Kenya, Zambia and Morocco this year, says a press release of the Embassy of Japan.