JAPANESE FOREIGN AID IN AFRICA THROUGH TICAD (TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICA DEVELOPMENT)

Abstract

This research discusses the implementation of Japanese foreign aid or Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Africa through TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) in 2016-2018. The purpose of this study is to explain the role of TICAD in dealing with economic development problems in Africa, especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.

This research uses the theory of foreign aid, in which the foreign aid provided by Japan to Africa is economic development assistance and humanitarian assistance and is viewed from three types of assistance is Loans, Grants (Grant Aid), Technical Cooperation (Technical Cooperation). The perspective used in this research is Liberalism with the level of analysis of the nation state. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative research and uses library research data collection techniques. The analysis in this research is analysis through secondary data. The findings of this study resulted that TICAD implemented several programs in dealing with development problems in Africa, which were arranged in the Yokohama Action Plan and the Nairobi Implementation Plan.

Keyword: Foreign Aid, Japan, ODA, Sub-Saharan Africa, TICAD