The Embassy of Japan is inviting design, construction and audit companies to be registered as companies for the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) for fiscal year 2016. A GGP project grant recipient is normally responsible for selecting design, construction and audit companies to implement the project, through a comparison of quotations from three different companies; however, the Embassy of Japan will recommend the above-mentioned GGP registered companies at the request of the grant recipient when necessary, in which case the registered company will be expected to implement the project concerned.

To apply, all documents listed below must be submitted to the Embassy of Japan no later than 30 April 2016.

Results will be notified by the Embassy of Japan to applying companies, after examining submitted documents.

About the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP)
The Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP) scheme is a financial assistance scheme of the Government of Japan that is offered for development projects in developing countries. The GGP supports development projects proposed by bodies such as NGOs and local government authorities. The grant amount for each project is up to 10 million yen (approx. 90,000 USD). The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar assists about 30-60 projects per year through this GGP scheme. Some examples of GGP projects include: construction of primary school buildings, rural hospital buildings, roads, small-scale bridges, water supply, provision of medical equipments, etc.

Registration Requirements
1. Have adequate experience in the related fields in which GGP is carried out
2. Have had no serious issues in implementing contracted work from GGP in the past
3. Possessing more than 100,000,000 Kyat or equivalent in USD in company’s bank account or as net assets.
4. Being not on the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) of the United States, nor owned by an SDN for more than 50 percent.

List of the application documents (attached)
1. Application for Registration (Form 1) *For design and construction companies
2. Application for Registration (Form 2) *For audit company
3. List of recent projects (Form 3) *For all companies
4. Engineers’ career (Form 4) *For design and construction companies
5. List of branches (Form 5) *For all companies
6. Balance sheet *For all companies
7. Accounting report for the last 3 years *For all companies
8. Audit report *For all companies
9. Updated bank statements for Myanmar Kyat and USD