Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects: US$ 1.4 million grant contracts on humanitarian demining activities in the north sign

Two Grant Contracts for Humanitarian Demining Activities in the North were signed between Mr. Kunio Takahashi, Ambassador of Japan and the representatives of DDG (Danish Demining Group) and the HALO Trust in the presence of Hon. Basil Rajapaksa, Senior Presidential Advisor and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Northern Development on 4th June, 2009 at the Presidential Secretariat.

Through these contracts under the scheme of "Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP)", the Government of Japan will extend grant aid totaling US$ 1.4 million (approximately Rs. 160 million) to DDG and the HALO Trust (approximately Rs. 80 million each) for humanitarian demining activities in the North. Through this grant Japan extends its cooperation to the efforts of the Government of Sri Lanka to accelerate humanitarian demining activity for the early return and resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Read more ...