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Reform of Japanese Export Credit Agencies

Friends of the Earth - Japan

www.FoEJapan.org

  • Program Environment
  • Program Area Transforming Development Finance
  • Grant Amount $200,000
  • Grant Period August 1, 2007–July 31, 2009
  • Location Tokyo, Japan
  • Geographic Focus Japan

About this grant

This renewal grant will allow Friends of the Earth – Japan to further its work on reform of Japanese export credit agencies and to continue its organizational capacity building work. Project activities for the next two years will include active participation in the review of the Japanese export credit agencies’ environmental guidelines; research and advocacy to add new requirements to the revised environmental and social guidelines; increased engagement with Japanese private banks that have adopted Equator Principles; continuing dialogue with the Asian Development Bank officials on strengthening the monitoring and accountability of their lending; engaging Friends of the Earth – Japan members more fully into organizational operations and activities; and enhancing collaborative activities with industry and government.