This was the first experience for the JRCS to develop recovery assistance programmes in Japan based on such large-scale support from overseas. Therefore, each project had not always started with clear existing policy and strategy for recovery assistance programmes from the beginning.
Based on a basic policy, the goals and objectives of each project were clarified and detailed while its implementation was promoted.

1. Outline of the the GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan

The JRCS hosted the first Partnership Meeting on May 9, 2011, in order to report on its approach to the GEJET disaster recovery to the overseas PNSs and other partners. In the meeting, the “Outline of the GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan” was presented, on which the agreement was obtained from the participants.
The outline consists of the basic approach, the objectives and the major initiatives (Figure 4-2 Outline of the GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan).

The constrained conditions (special considerations) of the recovery assistance programmes were explicitly stated in the basic approach of the “Outline of the GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan”, and the targeted fields in the recovery assistance programmes were presented in its objectives. The planned and implemented projects of the JRCS as of May 2011, 2 months after the disaster, were shown under the major initiative of the outline.

2. The GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan funded by the donation from overseas

While implementing each project based on this “Outline of the GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan”, the JRCS developed an overall and field-specific vision and reviewed the basic plan as well as promoted planning and organisaton of the project implementation plan, which led to the development of the “GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan funded by the donation from overseas (vision and basic plan)”.
The plan was decided on at the 7th council of the GEJET Recovery Assistance Programme in FY2011 held in March 2012, and was agreed to at the Partnership Meeting in May 2012. The GEJET Relief and Recovery Plan consists of the overall vision, the field-specific visions and the basic policy.
In the vision as whole, the priority fields to be specifically addressed in the GEJET recovery assistance programmes were clearly stated and the state aimed to realize through the programmes overall was presented. The vision was developed in anticipation of the goals achieved in the third year of the recovery assistance programmes. The areas of “support in rebuilding lives of affected people”, “children’s education support”, “social welfare services”, “medical service” and “assistance for Nuclear Power Plant Accident Victims” were set as the priority fields, and a specific vision for each priority field was presented. The basic policy presented in the Partnership Meeting (held in May 2011) was revised and the “development of community-based activities sustainable in the community” was added.