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participants from KEMRI to pursue a higher educational degree is included in 
collaborative projects with other foreign institutes.     
Thus, the lack of support for proceeding to a higher educational degree in JICA’s 
cooperation has influenced the willingness of researchers in KEMRI to participate in 
JICA projects.    However, JICA has tried to resolve this problem through the recent 
introduction of a support system for pursuing educational degrees by counterparts. 
 
5.3.3
 
Conclusions 
JICA has implemented cooperation with the expectation that health services will be 
improved through the effect of KEMRI's functioning as a base for research and 
diagnosis on infectious diseases control as well as a base for the human resources 
development. 
JICA’s cooperation with KEMRI is characterized by activities that concentrate on two 
main functions - blood screening and parasite control.    Blood screening activities, in 
particular, enabled the test kits developed by KEMRI to be disseminated nationwide 
through coordinated research and training activities.  In addition, as a research 
institute and a WHO Collaborating Centre, KEMRI has greatly contributed to 
infectious diseases control in other parts of Africa as well serving as a regional 
educational and training institute.   
As in the case of NMIMR in Ghana, KEMRI contributed to improvements in the 
health condition of the population through the improvement of health services that 
reflected its research outputs.  As expected by JICA, KEMRI contributed to 
improving infectious diseases control in Kenya, and the foundations for this research 
were built through JICA’s cooperation.    As with NMIMR, KEMRI has also acquired 
sufficient capacity as a research institute.  In view of the fact that the cooperation 

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between JICA and KEMRI is proceeding to next stage, JICA should consider the 
validity of the cooperation that has the aim of technology transfer.    It is, therefore, 
required to establish a new cooperation scheme for KEMRI with activities consisting 
mainly of collaborative research with foreign institutes.