JICA President Akihiko Tanaka met with UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahoussou at JICA headquarters on December 10.
The two organizations have been working together to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in countries around the world, for example by promoting Women, Peace and Security (WPS). During this meeting, the two organizations mentioned the achievements of their collaboration and expressed their appreciation to each other.
In order to further strengthen the collaboration by leveraging each other’s strengths, JICA and UN Women signed and exchanged the first inter-organizational Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of cooperation between the two organizations and confirmed that they will work together to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment in Japan and other countries around the world.
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