The Japan Social Development Fund (日本社会開発基金) or JSDF is an official development assistance program funded for World Bank by the government of Japan.
The fund was originally set up in 2000 during the Asian financial crisis to reach those affected by supporting community development projects.
An average of fifty proposals are submitted in each round to a selection committee, which is composed of Bank's senior development experts.
The Japan Social Development Fund was established in June 2000 by the Government of Japan and the World Bank as a united mechanism for providing direct assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in eligible World Bank Group member countries.
[1] The Introducing Innovative Arts-Based Education to Displaced and Violence-Affected Communities grant is aimed at assisting the municipal government of Cartagena and El Colegio del Cuerpo (“School of the Body”), a local NGO which runs a modern dance and arts school to: The Preventing Child Labor grant objective was to rehabilitate child laborers who continue to work legitimately, reintegrate them into schools, and support effective measures to prevent child labor.