JBIC Watch (English) provides essential information that the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has failed to provide to people affected by the projects it finances. Much of the information that JBIC provides about projects that it is considering financing is only in Japanese. JBIC-Watch (English) provides such information in English so that project-affected people and concerned groups may access and use the information. (more)

A list of projects being considered for financing by JBIC is contained here. Projects are listed according to the countries in which they are located. The information here is a translation of what JBIC has made available on its website in Japanese only.

• Armenia (Last Proposed: October 26, 2004)
• Australia (Last Proposed: April 1, 2005)
• Azerbaijan (Last Proposed: December 28, 2004)
• Bahrain (Last Proposed: November 18, 2004)
• Bangladesh (Last Proposed: October 21, 2004)
• Brazil (Last Proposed: May 24, 2005)
• Cambodia (Last Propsed, November 17, 2003)
• Chili (Last Proposed: December 6, 2004)
• China (Last Proposed, July 22, 2005)
• Costarica (Last Proposed: August 9, 2005)
• Czech (Last Proposed, January 6, 2004)
• Egypt (Last Proposed: March 7, 2005)
• Equatorial Guinea (Last Proposed: April 15, 2005)
• Guatemala (Last Proposed: August 5, 2005)
• India (Last Proposed: December 13, 2004)
• Indonesia (Last Proposed: December 15, 2004)
• Iran (Last Proposed, September 12, 2005)
• Kazakhstan (Last poroposed: December 2, 2004)
• Laos (Last Proposed: October 29, 2004)
• Macedonia (Last Proposed: April 14, 2004)
• Malaysia (Last Proposed: June 21, 2004)
• Maldives (Last proposed: September 8, 2005)
• Mexico (Last Proposed: February 15, 2005)
• Morocco (Last Proposed: April 6, 2005)
• Namibia (Last Proposed June 18, 2004)
• Oman (Last Proposed: October 15, 2004)
• Papua New Guniea (Last Proposed: April 15, 2005)
• Paraguay (Last Proposed: August 12, 2005)
• Philippines (Last Proposed: January 13, 2004)
• Poland (Last Proposed: July 13, 2005)
• Qatar (Last Proposed: September 12, 2005)
• Rumania (Last Proposed June 24, 2004)
• Russia (Last Proposed: December 10, 2003)
• Saudi Arabia (Last Proposed: July 11, 2005)
• Singapore (Last Proposed: July 11, 2004)
• Thailand (Last Proposed: June 6, 2005)
• Tunisia (Last Proposed, April 6, 2004)
• Turkmenistan (Last Proposed, 17 January, 2005)
• United Arab Emirates (Last Proposed: April 26, 2005)
• U.S.A. (Last Proposed: September 30, 2003)
• Uzbekistan (Last Proposed: May 5, 2004)
• Venezuela (Last Proposed: November 29, 2004)
• Viet Nam (Last Proposed: June 21, 2004)

This handbook provides basic information about JBIC and the process of JBIC projects. It also explains the important parts of JBIC's environmental guidelines and how to use JBIC’s complaints procedure, called the “Objection Procedures.” If you or people you know are suffering because of a development project financed by JBIC, this handbook may be a useful tool for you. (more)

As part of Prime Minister Koizumi’s government reforms, there has been much debate in recent months over the future of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). It remains to be seen what agency will take over operations currently under JBIC, which implements official development assistance (ODA) loans and supports overseas investment by Japanese corporations. Regardless of how JBIC is reorganized, however, it is doubtful whether the social and environmental problems caused overseas by JBIC will be resolved.

Three Japanese NGOs (FoE Japan, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, and Mekong Watch) have established “JBIC Watch (Japanese).” The purpose of JBIC Watch (Japanese) is to convey the voices of project-affected people and to conduct advocacy regarding the government’s plans to reorganize the functions of JBIC from the point of view of local people in developing countries. (go to http://jbic-watch.net/jp/)

JBIC Watch (Japanese) contains information about problem projects financed by JBIC, interviews of local people affected by JBIC projects, and short essays by JBIC monitors.

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