(2) Shifting to a results-based approach

Japanese assistance from here on must focus on concrete outcomes. Concrete outcome targets will be defined when a project is adopted, and a completion report will be released upon finishing a project. Furthermore, the status of achievement of the expected outcomes will be examined approximately three years thereafter, and the results will be made public, including to what extent concrete outcomes were achieved. Japan considers this process of increasing visibility of its aid effectiveness as an essential component of shifting to a result-based approach.

For example, Japan will disclose not only the number of hospitals built and the number of health practitioners trained, but also quantitatively indicate to what extent the infant mortality rate, the maternal mortality rate, and the proportion of births attended by midwives improved. In doing so, Japan will show not merely the amount of inputs that went into a project, but to what degree they contributed to improving the socioeconomic conditions of developing countries. Further methods for evaluating concrete outcomes will be explored.

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