Signing of the Exchange of Notes for the Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) Project

 

  Japanese Ambassador HANEDA Koji and Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. signed and exchanged notes on the Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) Project on June 8, 2020.
 
  Exchange of Notes signed will provide 337 million yen** (approximately 159 million pesos) to support 22 Filipino young officials from various governmental institutions to study as JDS fellows of post graduate program, entering Japan starting Academic Year 2021. The project aims to enhance the JDS fellows’ expertise in their respective fields 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, a total of 361 Filipino JDS fellows have been to Japan since it began in the Philippines in 2002.
 
** From BSP: PHP-JPY Exchange Rate = 0.4718 (2020 May average)