FGFJ | Global Fund General Manager Gabriel Jaramillo Visits Japan
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) / Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) organized a series of meetings in Tokyo for Mr. Gabriel Jaramillo, general manager of the Global Fund, and Dr. Christoph Benn, the fund’s director of resource mobilization and donor relations.
FGFJ | Media Roundtable on the Sidelines of a UN High-Level Meeting on TB
JCIE/FGFJ worked with the United Nations Foundation and Results US to hold a media roundtable titled, “Press briefing on tuberculosis: Why 2018 is a historic year in the fight against this deadly, forgotten disease.” Speakers talked about the current status and efforts to combat tuberculosis, the process leading up to the UNHLM, and take-aways from the hearing the previous day, highlighting the current needs and how much investment it will take to accelerate the fight.
FGFJ | High-Level Panel on “From Okinawa to Tomorrow: Accelerating the Global Fight Against Infectious Diseases”
JCIE and FGFJ joined forces with the Global Fund, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and UNAIDS to organize a high-level panel on recent progress that has been made in the fight against communicable diseases.
FGFJ | Site Visits to Global Fund–Supported Projects in Ethiopia and Senegal
In order to promote better understanding of how Global Fund support reinforces other health-related activities at the community level, the FGFJ and JCIE worked closely with the Global Fund to organize a study trip for several prominent Japanese global health experts and emerging scholars to Ethiopia and Senegal from April 26 to May 4, 2011.
FGFJ | Prime Minister Kan Opens Access to Life Photo Exhibit
On September 3, 2010, Prime Minister Naoto Kan opened a special launch event for the Tokyo exhibition of a joint photographic project by Magnum Photos and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This exhibit documents the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the lives of people living with AIDS around the world and is designed to give a human face to the global effects of the disease.
Seminar: NGOs as Strategic Partners in Development and Humanitarian Assistance
This seminar was part of a JCIE project on NGOs as Strategic Partners, conducted from 2015 to 2018. Participants examined what Japanese NGOs and government agencies can do to work together on ODA, drawing on the US experience of fostering strategic partnerships on development and humanitarian assistance to consider steps that can help government agencies and NGOs become true strategic partners.
NGOs as Strategic Partners: Japanese NGO Leaders Delegation to Washington DC
JCIE brought a team of executives from leading Japanese NGOs in the field of development and humanitarian assistance to the US to study what is needed to strengthen the institutional capacity of Japan’s NGO sector and advance US-Japan development cooperation.
NGOs as Strategic Partners | Follow-Up Diet-NGO Roundtable
Five NGO leaders and three Diet members came together for a roundtable to discuss how to strengthen Japanese NGOs’ institutional capacity to work as strategic partners with the the government on development and humanitarian affairs. They discussed how to advance US-Japan cooperation and make the NGO sector in Japan more effective.
Jiro Murase Memorial Seminar
On Monday, October 27, JCIE organized a major seminar on the future direction of US-Japan relations in memory of the late Jiro Murase, the longtime president of JCIE/USA and a key figure in bilateral relations over the past half-century.
JCIE Organizes Side Meetings to Advance Global Health Dialogue at TICAD7
JCIE co-organized three official side events during TICAD7, building on the momentum of the week to advance policy dialogue around key global health issues such as sustainable financing of universal health coverage (UHC), the challenges of aging in Africa, and the health worker shortage that remains a major bottleneck to UHC and economic growth.