Signing Ceremony for the Exchange of Notes for the 2021 Human Resource Development Scholarship

On 21st December 2021, H.E. Ambassador HORIE Ryoichi and Hon. Ukur Yatani, Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning signed an Exchange of Notes (E/N) to provide about 225 million Kenyan Shillings (USD 1.98 million) for the 2021 Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS). This is the second batch of JDS in Kenya following the 2020 JDS. The programme, which started in 1999, aims to support human resource development by providing young leaders from target countries with full scholarships for graduate degrees to top universities in Japan.

In his remarks during the ceremony, Ambassador HORIE expressed his belief that those who participate in the JDS programme would become key persons in the process of bridging and strengthening the partnership between Kenya and Japan in the long term.