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 | All Nippon Airlines Publicizes the Global Fund on its Flights
The FGFJ arranged for All Nippon Airways (ANA), one of Japan’s two major carriers, to air a video on the Global Fund on all of its domestic flights for three months, from September to December 2006. ANA’s in-flight magazine, Wingspan, which is distributed on all domestic and international flights, simultaneously ran a two-page spread on the Global Fund.
FGFJ | Inaugural Japan Visit of New Global Fund Executive Director Dr. Michel Kazatchkine
JCIE/FGFJ held a seminar in Tokyo on July 26, 2007, on the topic From Heiligendamm to Toyako—The Global Fund on the G8 Agenda, during which Dr. Michel Kazatchkine and Dr. Christoph Benn offered the audience an overview of the Global Fund’s work and its results so far and appealed to Japan to make sure that the momentum that started in Okinawa eight years ago is not lost over the coming years.
FGFJ | Journalist Delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam
From April 21 to 25, 2008, JCIE/FGFJ and the Global Fund led a delegation of five Japanese journalists from major national newspapers to Cambodia and Vietnam. The journalists visited a broad range of sites so that they could better understand the public health problems these countries face and the efforts on the ground to improve the situation.
FGFJ | Diet Delegation to Cambodia and Vietnam
On July 22 to 25, 2008, six members of the JCIE/FGFJ Diet Task Force visited Cambodia and Vietnam to speak with community leaders, aid workers and national policymakers working on AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis and to visit treatment sites and communities dealing with these 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 | 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.