The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS) is an organization for human resources development in developing countries to promote technical cooperation through training, experts dispatch and other programs.

Through those programs, we aim at contributing to the mutual economic growth of developing countries and Japan as well as enhancing friendly relations between those countries.

We are pleased to announce that our English name, the Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association (HIDA), has been changed to the Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS), effective 1 July 2017.

Aims
To promote mutual economic development of Japan and other countries and friendly relationships between them by conducting activities to facilitate industrial globalization, trade, investment, and international economic cooperation.

Main activities to achieve AOTS's aims
(1) Providing training to trainees and other personnel for the development of industry and human resources in Japan and abroad
(2) Dispatching experts and other personnel for the development of industry and human resources in Japan and abroad
(3) Conducting research and other programs related to the development of industry and human resources in Japan and abroad
(4) Managing and operating facilities required for the development of industrial human resources in Japan and abroad
(5) Financing Japanese small- and medium-sized companies to promote their overseas investment which will contribute to the development of industry in developing regions, and conducting related research activities