For more than 18 years, the Regional Office of the Regional Cooperative Agreement for research, development and training related to nuclear science and technology for Asia and the Pacific (RCA) has helped to inform, implement and enhance the visibility of IAEA technical cooperation (TC) projects implemented under the Agreement. Dazhu Yang, Deputy Director General, Head ?of Department of Technical Cooperation, met virtually with?Pill Hwan Park , Director of the RCA Regional Office (RCARO) in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, on 15 October to sign an Amendment to extend the Practical Arrangements between the IAEA and RCARO, signed in 2017, for an additional three-year period.

Organized under the auspices of the IAEA, RCA provides an intergovernmental framework through which member countries in the region can promote and coordinate—in cooperation with each other and with the IAEA—research, development and training projects in nuclear science and technology. In the last 48 years, efforts channelled through the RCA Agreement have helped to steer and successfully implement more than 150 TC projects, in addition to other projects conducted with support from regional and international donors, such as the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Office of South-South Cooperation.