{"id":7800,"date":"2012-03-14T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:27:01","slug":"usaid-and-japan-international-cooperation-agency-cooperate-on-supporting-water-development-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/14\/usaid-and-japan-international-cooperation-agency-cooperate-on-supporting-water-development-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID and Japan International Cooperation Agency Cooperate on Supporting Water Development in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/USAID1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7801\" title=\"USAID1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/USAID1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On March 12, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced a partnership to promote investment and financing in the water sector across sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership seeks to galvanize private investment and financing and strengthen institutional capacity in Africa to develop and sustain water programs. USAID and JICA are exploring short-term opportunities for joint collaboration in African countries that may lead to long-term investment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The partnership represents an important milestone in USAID-JICA relations,&#8221; said USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg. &#8220;USAID&#8217;s unique experience in water and sanitation will complement JICA&#8217;s commitment to create a multi-million dollar Africa Water Investment Fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement of intent signed by the two development agencies establishes principles of cooperation for the continent-wide effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;JICA and USAID share a commitment to improving access to sustainable and affordable water services in Africa,&#8221; said Mr. Shigeru Kiyama, JICA Senior Special Advisor. &#8220;JICA is making a commitment to increased equity investment and public-private partnerships in Africa&#8217;s water sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The partnership builds on the existing relationship between USAID and JICA to stimulate private investment and institutional reform in the water sector, including joint work in the Philippines and Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 12, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced a partnership to promote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[699,1528,1799,258,143,233],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-africa","tag-japan","tag-jika","tag-malawi","tag-usaid","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}