For the high quality solutions and services using our expertise
About Us
Company Profile
OAFIC offers a comprehensive range of services in the different phases and aspects of development, including the following:
• conceptualization
• program/project identification
• field investigations
• master planning
• feasibility study preparation
• economic and financial studies
• engineering studies and detailed engineering design preparation
• supervision and management of project execution
• program management
• system integration and software design and development; and
• research and development.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide high quality solutions and services that exceed our client needs, fully using our technical and management expertise, in international cooperation projects.
Managenent: Munehiro Shimada M.V.Med. Managing Director
Employees: 25 persons
Address: Kanda 4th Amelex bld. 2F, 2-13 Kanda Tsukasa-machi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0048
TEL: +81-3-5281-1071
FAX: +81-3-5281-1072
Capital: 10 million yen
OAFIC is an independent consulting firm and one of Japan's largest comprehensive consulting company specializing in the fisheries, livestock, agriculture and other related sectors including environment. Since its establishment in 1977, OAFIC has completed over 220 projects in its over 40 years of operation in more than 70 developing and developed countries all over the world, and has about 100 natural/social scientists and engineers to provide professional consulting services. OAFIC is listed with, and has done work for, international organizations like the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank (WB), the African Development Bank (AfDB), United Nations organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as well as for bilateral agencies like the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and the Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation (OFCF) of Japan. It has also rendered service to public sector clients, including government agencies at different levels of the bureaucracy, as well as to private business in Japan and overseas.
Firm Personnels
OAFIC has highly qualified experts and specialists in various fields and with experience in providing services in Japan and abroad. The Company's Chairman, Mr. Yasuo Ishimoto, is an outstanding professional manager and technical specialist with worldwide experience in the planning, management, and implementation of development projects.
OAFIC has excellent key personnel with the capability and well-developed technical know-how in the primary industries and allied fields. In addition, the Company retains the services of a number of Agriculturists particularly Fisheries Experts, Economists, Sociologists, and Civil Engineers from various countries in Asia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa, who are fielded in projects all over the world. It is also OAFIC's policy to make full use of regional experts in its various assignments and to associate with reputable local companies in the execution of projects. OAFIC employs rigid screening criteria in the selection of specialists for nomination in projects the Company bids for, and once awarded a contract, the Firm provides its Consultant Team with full technical and administrative backstopping support from its Home Office to ensure successful project implementation.
Field of Development
From Fisheries Sector with Continuing Assured Performance and Livestock and Agricultural Sector Making the Best. And Use of Know-How to the Environmental Sector with a More Integrated Perspective
Wide-ranging businesses, capable of meeting the most diverse needs of not only the fisheries sector but also the livestock and agricultural sectors well as the environmental sector.
We also have a number of highly qualified and experienced experts in both the software and hardware fields of each business area to professionally address concrete issues, ranging from fishing boats and fishing ports to aquaculture in the fisheries sector for example.
Main Clients
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
African Development Bank (AfDB)
Fishing Port and Community Development Center, Japan (FIDEC)
Inter-American Development Bank (IaDB)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Agriculture Cooperation Institute (IACI)
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Japan Overseas Development Cooperation (JODC)
Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation, Japan (OFCF)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
MEMBERSHIP
Forum for Aquaculture in the Developing Countries (FADEC)
International Development Engineering Society (IDES)
Japan International Fisheries Research Society (JIFRS)
Marino Forum 21 (MF21/OFCA)
National Association for the Promotion of Productive Seas (NAPPS)
Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE)
SDGs
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
ISO
CSR Activities
OAFIC has great number of development project experiences and knowledge in developing countries. Now we began to contribute supporting the NPO/ NGO`s activities as a part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In Indonesia, OAFIC is supporting the project “Sustainable Livelihoods Programme for Struggling Fishers in Indonesia (SULFI)” promoting by PNO firm named ALL LIFE LINE NETWORK. SULFI project is designed to provide secure the income for small-scale fishermen and improve their lives implemented by simple seaweed farming. OAFIC has dispatched a seaweed farming expert to this project to guide the technical support and more.
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