Takayuki Urade, CEO, joins the consultant team for JICA’s Project for Strengthening Facilitation Capacity for Logistics Improvement in Cambodia by a JV consisting of Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd., PADECO Co., Ltd. and International Development Center of Japan Inc. (IDCJ), and has started the field assignment on March 31, 2025. (Overall project period: January 2024 - March 2027)

For Cambodia, with its strategically important location on Southern Economic Corridor (SEC), logistics sector is critically important for the development of its economy. JICA has supported the formulation of the Logistics Master Plan, and is expanding the support to wider scope of capacity development in planning/implementation/coordination based on quantitative data and regular monitoring, as well as in border transportation under this project since January 2024.

In addition, JICA and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) in Cambodia has agreed to include the 'Regional Hub Study' in this project as a basis of further economic growth, for which Urade has been invited by the consultant team in order to develop a scenario for the economic/industry development of Cambodia up to the year 2050.

Urade, with a wide variety of research/consulting experiences in global and regional financial/industry/logistics hubs (as in the advisory work to the Council for Asian Gateway Initiative under the 1st Abe administration (2006-07), financial hub studies as an economist based in Singapore (2007-09) both at Nomura Securities, Data Collection Survey for Cross-border Maritime Cooperation in South Asia (2015-16), Data Collection Survey on Transport Infrastructure Development for Regional Connectivity in and around South Asia (2013-14) both by JICA, etc.), is expected to fully contribute to this project.

JICA's new technical assistance (TA) project 'PPP Risk & Investment Strategy Management in Mongolia' by a JV consisting of IC Net Ltd., International Development Center of Japan Inc. (IDCJ) and PADECO Co., Ltd. has been launched with Takayuki Urade, CEO of JNEW LLC as a team member, and the on-site mission has started on March 6, 2025. (Project period: Feb 2025 - Jan 2029)

This project has been formulated with a view to supporting Mongolian government in facilitating PPP (public private partnership) while managing the fiscal risk through ensuring the collaboration among relevant ministries and organizations, as well as raising awareness In the private sector. Specifically, facilitation of risk assessment procedures, capacity building for the government staff, so that the PPP projects are encouraged under healthy fiscal management.

From this point of view, rich project experiences (*) and local network of Urade in Mongolian financial and industry sectors are expected to be fully utilized for the success of this project.

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JICA, Data Collecting Survey for Development of Financial and Capital Market and Capacity Building of its Regulation and Supervision in Mongolia (2013)

- do -, Capacity Building of Public-Private Partnership in Mongolia (2014-16)

- do -, Project for Capacity Building of Capital Market in Mongolia (2014-17)

EBRD / Capital Market Development Strategy in Mongolia (2017)

A JV consisting of Sanyu Consultants Inc. (SCI) and JNEW is launching a feasibility study on JICA’s Two-Step Loan for the agricultural sector in Senegal (May 2024 - February 2025).

While the agricultural sector accounts for 17% of GDP and 70% of the labor force,  Senegal faces constraints on the productivity as well as on financial access in its agricultural sector.

Under the leadership of SCI with rich track records in agricultural ODA, we would like to maximize our contribution in designing JICA’s Two-Step Loan for Senegal, taking full advantage of our experiences in Tanzania and other countries.