Japan commits P117 million for scholarship project

June 22, 2017

Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter  Cayetano signed and exchanged notes on the Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) project on Thursday, a statement from the Japanese Embassy said. This grant aid provides a fund amounting to 264 million yen (approximately 117 million pesos) to cover 20 JDS fellows, consisting of Filipino young officials from various governmental institutions, entering Japan starting academic year 2017-2018. The project aims to enhance the JDS fellows’ expertise in their respective fields such as “Financial Reform, Investment and SME Promotion Policy”, “Public Policy”, “Transportation Infrastructure” and “Peace and Stability in Mindanao” and to help build a pool of future Filipino leaders who will greatly contribute to the country’s overall economic development by returning to and working in the Philippines. To date, the Philippines has a total of 299 JDS fellows. DMS