ODA Evaluation based on the Government Policy Evaluations Act (GPEA)

With the entry into force of the GPEA in 2002, each ministry and agency is required to conduct self-evaluations of policies under its jurisdiction. ODA evaluations based on the GPEA are conducted since then.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) conducts ex-post evaluations of overall policy on economic cooperation, ex-post evaluations of projects on pending projects and incomplete projects (Note 1), and ex-ante evaluations on projects exceeding a certain value (Note 2) in accordance with the GPEA and its Order for Enforcement.

● MOFA website

https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/oda/shiryo/index_hyouka05.html

(Note 1) “Projects not started” mean projects for which a loan agreement has not been concluded at 5 years past after the policy decision or for which loan implement has not been initiated.

(Note 2) Ex-ante evaluations are conducted on loan aid projects which maximum amount of loan offered through an Exchange of Notes (E/N) is ¥15 billion or more, and on grant aid projects which maximum amount of aid offered through an E/N is ¥1 billion or more.

Other ministries and agencies of the Government of Japan also evaluate ODA-related policy planning, programs and projects implementation under their jurisdiction based on GPEA.

For details, please refer to the websites of each ministry and agency.

● Financial Services Agency

Technical assistance to financial supervisory authorities in emerging market economics in Asia and other economies

https://www.fsa.go.jp/seisaku/index.html
(See page 116 of the FY2017 Policy Evaluation Report)

● Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Promotion of global strategy in the ICT sector

http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_seisakuhyouka/kekka.html
(See evaluation report for main policies, implemented in FY2017)

● Ministry of Justice

Promotion of international cooperation in legal affairs

http://www.moj.go.jp/hisho/seisakuhyouka/kanbou_hyouka_hyouka01-03.html
(See page 251 of the FY2016 Ministry of Justice Ex-post Evaluation Results Report)

● Ministry of Finance

Assistance extended through multilateral development banks

https://www.mof.go.jp/about_mof/policy_evaluation/mof/fy2017/evaluation/29hyouka.pdf
(See page 214 of the FY2017 Ministry of Justice Policy Evaluation Report)

● Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Promotion of international exchange

http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/kouritsu/detail/1388886.htm

● Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare

Participation in and Contribution to the International Community

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/wp/seisaku/hyouka/dl/jizen-hyoka_h30.pdf
(See preliminary analysis chart of policy evaluation related to policies implemented in FY2018)

● Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Establishment of comprehensive food security

https://www.maff.go.jp/j/budget/review/h29/29review.html
(The programs include non-ODA projects.)

● Forestry Agency

International cooperation and contributions for promotion of sustainable forestry management

http://www.maff.go.jp/j/assess/hanei/zisseki/h29/pdf/sheet28_17.pdf
(The programs include non-ODA projects; ODA evaluation can be found in Measure 8 on page 17-4)

● Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Formulation of overseas deployment strategy (electricity, railway, and ICT)

https://www.meti.go.jp/policy/external_economy/cooperation/oda/seisaku.html

● Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Promoting international coordination

http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001199370.pdf

● Ministry of the Environment

Water Environmental Partnership in Asia Program

http://wepa-db.net/3rd/jp/index.html
(The programs in China are non-ODA projects)

Evaluations by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

JICA conducts evaluations (external evaluations by external third-party evaluators based on the project cost and internal evaluations by JICA overseas offices, etc.) on individual projects of three development assistance schemes of technical cooperation, ODA loan and grant aid (implemented by JICA). In addition, JICA implements comprehensive and cross-sectoral evaluations under specific themes, such as by region, sector or assistance methodology, etc., impact evaluations for evidence based practice, and process analysis with a focus on the processes through which project effects are produced.

From the perspective of learning, JICA aims to utilize evaluation results for further improvement of project implementation, and to fulfill accountability, such as ensuring the objectivity and transparency of evaluations and publicizing evaluation results, etc.

● Evaluation on the JICA website

https://www.jica.go.jp/english/our_work/evaluation/index.html

Partner Country-led Evaluation

MOFA implements partner country-led evaluations once a year, aimed at enhancing partner country’s evaluation capacity, in which a governmental and/or private consulting organization evaluates programs under specific themes such as health, transportation, or disaster risk reduction.