Jica reaffirms commitment to support Tanzania

Dar es Salaam. The government of Japan through the Japanese International Co-operation Agency (JICA) has pledged for a continued support to Tanzania on capacity building on priority sectors.

The move aims to boost the country’s drive on development agenda and enable the government to achieve its plans.

The pledge was made on August 21 this year in Dar es Salaam by JICA President, Prof Shinichi Kitaoka, during a send-off ceremony of eight Tanzanians who have acquired the African Business Education initiative for Youth (ABE-Initiative) scholarship in Japan.

The students are going for master’s degree programs and internships at various institutions in Japan mainly on industries, engineering and business programmes.

ABE initiative provides African youth with unique opportunities in academic learnings and experiencing business internships at private companies.

I would like to congratulate the participants and urge them to use this golden opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills that will enable them to be agents of change in transforming Tanzania’s economy when they come back from the training,” he said.

Jica chief representative to Tanzania, Mr Toshio Nagase, said so far, the institution has sent 73 Tanzanian to Japan since the program started in 2014.

This year’s participants will leave the country in late August and early September, according to Mr Nagase.

We need these successful candidates who we are bidding farewell today to learn extensively, imitate the models which we have in Japan in order to industrialise Tanzania,” he said

The Japanese Ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Masaharu Yoshida, said the support is in line with the two country’s top leaders visions of cooperation.

ABE initiative is the embodiment for people cantered economic growth.

For his part, Permanent Secretary in President’s Office in charge of Public Services and Good Governance, Dr Laurean Ndumbaro, thanked the government of Japan for the support and commitment to help the country on the realisation of development agenda.

He promised the government’s full cooperation to ensure that the trainings are usefully to both trainees and nation.

Japan has been a good friend and development partner to Tanzania as through its agency (JICA), it has extended the support to many sectors including agriculture, energy, transport, water, health, education and governance,”

Others, according to him are industry, local government, private sector, volunteers programme and human resources development which together have been very important for the development of the country.

The trainees promised to make better use of the opportunity they acquired to ensure that they would eventually install positive changes on areas of their specializations.