Online Symposium Foreign Aid Policy: Japan - Australia cooperation in a COVID world
The Stretton Institute with financial support from the Japan Foundation Sydney office, and in collaboration with the JICA Ogata Sadako Institute for Peace and Development in Tokyo held a half-day online symposium on聽Foreign Aid Policy: Japan-Australia Cooperation in a COVID World聽on 15 July 2021.聽
The main purpose of the symposium was to highlight Japan鈥檚 foreign aid policy and its implementation in the 21st century considering policy transformation and implications for recipients.聽Importantly, it also considered how Japan and Australia have performed in the foreign aid space and how they could possibly cooperate on global health issues in the Indo-Pacific region, particularly in the South Pacific island states.