1. Partnership Report 2022
  2. Modalities
  3. Trust Funds
  4. Stand-Alone Trust Funds
  5. Japan Scholarship Program

Modalities / Stand-Alone Trust Funds

  1. Modalities

/Japan Scholarship Program

Year Established

1988

Partners

Japan

Cumulative Contributions Committed

Contributions committed are net of cancellation of the commitments, if any, and revalued at reporting date, as applicable.

$204.6 million

Project Commitments

The financing approved by ADB's Board of Directors or management for which the legal agreement has been signed by the borrower, recipient, or the investee company and ADB.
Grants

$199.3 million for 4,260 scholars

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The ADB–Japan Scholarship Program or JSP encourages and strengthens human resource development. It aims to give qualified citizens of ADB’s developing member countries opportunities to pursue graduate studies in economics, business and management, science and technology, and other development-related fields at selected educational institutions in the Asia and Pacific region. The program is open to nationals of an ADB borrowing member country who have gained admission to an approved master’s program at a designated institution.

In 2022, the Government of Japan provided $8 million to the ADB-JSP for its 34th year. The fund held significant events in the same year. The ADB-JSP Symposium on Knowledge and Development was organized, where participating learning institutions learned of JFPR’s priority areas to help them fine-tune their course offerings and where scholars and alumni are informed of ADB developing member countries’ development needs. The fund also arranged the event, Graduation Gathering 2022, which welcomed the year’s JSP graduates. The Thesis of the Year Workshop, which the fund also supported, allowed selected scholars to present their research to the Government of Japan, ADB-JSP alumni and scholars, ADB staff, partner universities, and the ADB Institute.

News

ADB–Japan Scholarship Program Symposium Knowledge for Development

The ADB-JSP and ADB Institute invited distinguished speakers to discuss challenges and the state-of-the-art in JFPR’s new priority areas. The event was participated in by 25 designated institutions of the ADB-Japan Scholarship Program to enable them to better align their fields of study and course offerings and sensitize scholars and alumni on developing member countries’ development and capacity needs.

Stories

Hein Zaw: ADB-JSP Impact Story

Hein Zaw was awarded an ADB–Japan Scholarship at age 26. He studied at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and went on to receive a Master of Science degree in Plant Breeding. Poverty did not hinder Hein Zaw from reaching his dreams and his desire to serve his country. In 2014, he returned to UPLB to pursue his PhD in Genetics. After graduation, he went back to Myanmar* to make an impact in the country’s agriculture sector by getting involved in developing five new rice varieties.

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