Japan Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund

1. Japan Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund Feb 23, 2009 Naohisa Konita Advisor Office of Executive Director, Japan

2. What are Trust Funds? • Accounted for separately from the World Bank's own resources • Financial arrangements with a donor or a group of donors • Grant funding of high-priority development needs • Have helped the Bank leverage its poverty reduction programs over the past thirty years

3. PHRD in the Bank’s trust funds • Japan Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Fund • PHRD is one of the trust funds managed by the World Bank • One of the largest trust funds with over $2.4 billion cumulative contributions since 1990

4. PHRD Fund Origins • Established in 1990 • As a partnership between the Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank (Bank) • Supports poverty alleviation and capacity building activities in many areas

5. PHRD Fund Objectives “The Fund may be used for the purposes of financing technical assistance and other grant activities in respect of the formulation and implementation of Bank-supported projects and programs and activities to help develop human resources in developing member countries of the Bank, to assist developing member countries of the Bank to formulate and implement development policy and to strengthen the partnership between Japan and the Bank.”

6. PHRD Fund Overview • Core programs provide direct support for a wide range of activities • Supports other activities where the Bank plays an important role in the international community (such as transferring resources to other programs)

7. PHRD supports…. • Human resources development and capacity building • Technical Assistance (TA) Program • Japanese Staff and Consultant • Japan-World Bank Partnership Program

8. As one of human resources development and capacity building activitiesThe Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

9. PHRD Programs – FY08 Disbursements

10. Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) • Established in 1987 • To help create an international community of highly trained professionals working in the field of economic and social development. • Scholarship Program for graduate studies in subjects related to economic development • Japan’s contributions totaling 203 million dollars over the past 22 years • 4,006 scholars from over 150 countries have been awarded scholarships

11. The scholars requiredto return to their home countries on completion of their study Programs and apply their enhanced knowledge and skills to contribute to the development process in their respective regions and communities. Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

12. About 85 percent of the scholars during 1987-2006 returned to their home country or to another developing country Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP)

13. JJ/WBGSP -Other Programs • Partnership Program (11 Partnership programs at universities) • Japan Indonesia Presidential Scholarship Program (JIPS) (Support the Indonesia Ministry of National Education’s Presidential Scholars Program)

14. PHRD Programs – WBI Capacity Development Grant Program • WBI : knowledge exchange & dissemination. • Japan :one of the largest donors to WBI • The PHRD WBI Capacity Development Grants Program supporting WBI’s multiyear, country-specific programs

15. PHRD Programs – FY08 Disbursements

16. PHRD Programs – PHRD TA Program • The largest program in the PHRD Fund PHRD TA grant types funded prior to FY09: • Project Preparation grants • Project Implementation grants • Project Cofinancing grants • Climate Change Initiatives grants

17. PHRD TA Program -Examples Just some examples in a great number of the approved TA projects

18. PHRD TA Program -Examples • Water and sanitation service delivery • Public sector reforms • Education projects • Health systems development • Traffic management and safety • Natural disaster management • Climate change strategy and so on….

19. PHRD TA Program in FY09 • The new FY09 program will start soon • The program’s design is currently being reviewed • Agriculture and Rice Productivity Enhancement? • Climate Change? • Disaster Reduction and Recovery? • Disability and Development? and so on…. We will announce them soon.

20. Other Programs under PHRD • Support activities that strengthen collaboration between Japan and the World Bank. • Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) • Policy Dialogue Enhancement Support Fund • Strengthening the Partnership between the World Bank and the Private Sector in Japan • To facilitate the appointment of Japanese nationals as staff members or consultants at the World Bank

21. Other Programs Supported through PHRD Some other Programs and Initiatives supported by PHRD: • Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF) • Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) • Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) • Education for All Fast Track Initiative – Education Program Development Fund (EPDF) • Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Feasibility Study Trust Fund • Environmental and Social Challenges in Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)-Guaranteed Projects Trust Fund • Knowledge for Change Program (KCP) • Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) • Cities Alliance

22. For more information PHRD website: www.worldbank.org/phrd (Photo Credits) Dominic Sansoni/The World Bank (all pictures)

23. Thank you