Ethio-Japan Partnership Seminar Proceeding - CRDA Ethiopia

January 22, 2008CRDA Conference HallEthio-Japan Partnership SeminarParticipants began to arrive at 8:30 a.m. and registration followed through 9:00.Introduction & Opening remarksThe seminar began at 9:00 with warm greetings & welcome by the NGO-JICAJapan Desk Coordinator in CRDA Wz. Tsehay and she called upon Wz. SemiraActing Head of the CRDA. She made an opening remark with warm welcoming.In her speech she addressed the participants that this meeting is a continuationof the last year seminar, which will create an opportunity to create favourableconditions to strengthen the partnership of Ethiopian civil society and Japangovernment. She expressed her hope that this seminar will produce moreproductive points towards creating a more objective and meaningful results thatthe Japanese government will give due consideration for its future plan.Wz. Tsehay then called upon the seminar facilitator Mr. Million Alemayehu. Mr.Million introduced himself briefly to the audience and invited the JapaneseEmbassy representative, Head of Economic cooperation Mr. Omoto todeliver his presentation.PresentationsI. Japan’s ODA to AfricaMr. Omoto began his discussion with the overview of historic emergence ofTICAD, which emphasize on importance of “Africa’s ownership”, “partnership”.TICAD, Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development, is a globalframework for Asia and Africa to collaborate in promoting Africa’s developmentand evoker for the attention of international society towards Africa. TICAD is cohostedby UN and Japanese government. In the presentation it was mentionedthat the third conference, TICAD III (Sep. 2003) reviewed the ten years2