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Contribution of Japan  ODA Evaluation Workshop

In response to the necessity of fostering the evaluation capacity of developing countries indicated at the meeting of the OECD-DAC Working Party on Aid Evaluation in 2000, MOFA has been holding annual ODA Evaluation Workshops for the purpose of building evaluation capacities of Asian Pacific countries since 2001. Participants have actively shared information about their efforts to improve evaluation capacity and their experience on ODA joint evaluations by recipient and donor countries.

In recent years, participants have also been discussing how evaluations should be adapted to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set forth by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015. The 16th ODA Evaluation Workshop was co-hosted by MOFA and the Thailand International Cooperation Agency in January 2019, which provided an opportunity to share knowledge on evaluation capacity building and accountability, focusing on SDGs.

Further, MOFA invited the Manager of the DAC Evaluation Network, OECDDAC Secretariat to the workshop, and participants had meaningful discussions with him.

Participants of the 16th ODA Evaluation Workshop