Japan announces new assistance for 5 projects directly benefitting people in 6 Municipalities
2022/3/25
Group Photo
After the Signing
Dili, 25th March, 2022－Japanese Embassy announced its assistance to five new projects that directly benefit the community people in 6 Municipalities. The projects are for the construction of 2 school buildings and 2 public clinics, and provision of 3 fire engines. The assistance is provided through Japan’s “Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP)” scheme.
GGP is one of the schemes through which Japan is assisting Timor-Leste. It aims at directly benefitting the community people especially in the remote areas. Japan has successfully implemented 127 projects through this scheme over the last 20 years all around the country.
This evening, the contracts were signed between Masami KINEFUCHI, Ambassador of Japan to Timor-Leste and the representatives of NGOs and Authorities who will implement the respective projects at the Embassy of Japan. The signing ceremony was attended by H.E. Mr. Armindo Maia, Minister of Education, H.E. Mr. Bonifácio Mau Coli dos Reis, Vice Minister of Health, H.E. Mr. Joaquim José Gusmão dos Reis Martins, Secretary of State for Civil Protection, representatives from Municipalities, local government officials, and representatives of beneficiary organizations.
GGP is one of the schemes through which Japan is assisting Timor-Leste. It aims at directly benefitting the community people especially in the remote areas. Japan has successfully implemented 127 projects through this scheme over the last 20 years all around the country.
This evening, the contracts were signed between Masami KINEFUCHI, Ambassador of Japan to Timor-Leste and the representatives of NGOs and Authorities who will implement the respective projects at the Embassy of Japan. The signing ceremony was attended by H.E. Mr. Armindo Maia, Minister of Education, H.E. Mr. Bonifácio Mau Coli dos Reis, Vice Minister of Health, H.E. Mr. Joaquim José Gusmão dos Reis Martins, Secretary of State for Civil Protection, representatives from Municipalities, local government officials, and representatives of beneficiary organizations.
Speech from Ambassador Kinefuchi
The total amount of these 5 new projects is USD 461,226 and will be implemented by MAHON (school building construction in Molop, Bobonaro), FUNDAMOR (school building construction in Serelau, Lautem), HADEZA(clinic building construction in Balibar, Dili), FTM (clinic building construction in Uaimori, Viqueque), and Secretariat of State for Civil Protection (secondhand fire engines donated from Japan to be reused in Covlima and Baucau)
In his speech at the ceremony, Ambassador KINEFUCHI said: “This year is the 20th anniversary of the restoration of independence of Timor-Leste. It also marks the 20th anniversary of the formal relationship between Japan and Timor-Leste. Looking back, soon after the referendum in 1999, Japan convened the first international donors’ conference in Tokyo, taking initiative to appeal for the international assistance to support Timor-Leste. Since then, Japan has continuously supported the nation-building of this country in the field of infrastructure building, human resources development and improvement of social services. ・・・We assisted many large-scale projects with tens of millions of dollars in funding. But we also believe in the importance of the smaller-scale projects that can directly benefit the community people, especially in remote areas. So far, we have completed about 200 of such projects around the country, and 127 among them are what we call GGP projects. And the 5 projects we sign today are the latest addition to this GGP category.”
After the signing ceremony, all the participants enjoyed a reception at the Ambassador's residence, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the success of GGP projects implemented over the 20 years of formal relationship between the two countries.
In his speech at the ceremony, Ambassador KINEFUCHI said: “This year is the 20th anniversary of the restoration of independence of Timor-Leste. It also marks the 20th anniversary of the formal relationship between Japan and Timor-Leste. Looking back, soon after the referendum in 1999, Japan convened the first international donors’ conference in Tokyo, taking initiative to appeal for the international assistance to support Timor-Leste. Since then, Japan has continuously supported the nation-building of this country in the field of infrastructure building, human resources development and improvement of social services. ・・・We assisted many large-scale projects with tens of millions of dollars in funding. But we also believe in the importance of the smaller-scale projects that can directly benefit the community people, especially in remote areas. So far, we have completed about 200 of such projects around the country, and 127 among them are what we call GGP projects. And the 5 projects we sign today are the latest addition to this GGP category.”
After the signing ceremony, all the participants enjoyed a reception at the Ambassador's residence, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the success of GGP projects implemented over the 20 years of formal relationship between the two countries.