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NEW JICA and

Project Evaluation

Ryutaro Koga

Evaluation Department

Japan International Cooperation Agency

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Presentation points

Reorganization of JBIC and JICA on Oct.1,2008 New JICA’s Organization Change of ODA project evaluation in Japan Evaluation System of New JICA Current issues of evaluation in New JICA

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Reorganization of JBIC and JICA

Restructuring of government financial institutions 　（ triggered by Prime Minister Koizumi’s initiative)OOF wing of JBIC is merged with other 3

domestic banks establishing JFCODA wing of JBIC is merged with JICA

ODA agency reformOne stop service window of ODA

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Reorganization of JBIC and JICA

S&MNational.

Agri.

MOFA

NEW JICA

JBIC

JFC

JICA JBIC

ODA operations OOF

operations

MOFA Grant

60%

40%

3 domestic banks

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Organization of New JICA

One stop ODA agency of Japanese Gov.

: Technical assistance, Grant assistance and Loan assistance

Synergy is expected, as well as coherence of evaluation method, but to what extent?

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The Vision and 4 missions

Inclusive and dynamic development1. Tackling issues caused by globalization

2. Equitable growth and poverty reduction

3. Governance improvement

4. Realization of Human security

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Strategies for fulfilling missions Inclusive assistance ： 3 schemes, policies, institutions,

human developments, infrastructure development Successive assistance ： each stage of disaster prevention,

emergency assistance, early rehabilitation, mid-term or long-term assistance

Promoting development partnership ： trying to become a best partner, understanding needs, effectively and speedily support self-help of partner countries, universities, NGOs, private companies, local governments, international players.

Research and its external dissemination ： establishing JICA Institute, provision of intellectual values in the development assistance arena based on fields experiences with collaborations with int’l partners

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Change of Implementation Entities of ODA operations in Japan

Grant AssistanceBy MOFA

(160 Bil. Yen)(about 1.6 Bil. US$)

Technical Assistance By JICA

(170 Bil. Yen)(about 1.7 Bil. US$)

ODA Loan Assistance By JBIC

（ 770 Bil. Yen ）(about 7.7 Bil. US$)

Grant AssistanceBy MOFA Grant/Technical/ Loan Assistance

By New JICA(1040 Billion Yen)

(About 10 Billion US$)

40%

60%

Before

After

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Evaluation System of New JICA

Target: Technical cooperation projects Loan assistance projects Grant assistance projects Program assistance

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Evaluation System of New JICA

Methodologies: Ex-ante to Ex-post evaluation External Evaluation Publication DAC 5 principles for Loan projects and

Project Technical Assistances

“Plan Do Check Action” Cycle

Preparation PhaseEx-Ante Evaluation:

- Examine the project’s relevance, its scope, expected impacts, and evaluation indicators

Implementation PhaseMid-Term/ Terminal Evaluation:

- Review the project’s relevance and its progress, prospects for realizing results, and factors affecting realization of effects

After CompletionEx-Post Evaluation

/ Ex-Post Monitoring

- Evaluate the project’s relevance, its impact, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, etc.

Feedback Phase

-Use feedback as means for better planning & implementation of future similar projects, as well as the evaluated project itself

Aid SchemeMid-Term Review

Terminal

EvaluationEx-post

EvaluationEx-post

Monitoring

Technical Cooperation

○ ○ ○ ○ －

○ODA Loans ○ ○ － ○ ○

Grant Aid ○ － － ○ －

PPlanlan

CCheckheckDDoo

AAction

ction

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Issues of evaluation in New JICA

Program evaluation (3 scheme coordinated programs)

Coordination and coherence of evaluation methods between 3 schemes (ex. ratings)

Impact evaluation (more robust measuring of results, result based evaluation, cost efficiency)

Thematic evaluation (ex. contributions of big scale infrastructures on non-hardware related aspects)

Grant projects evaluation (transfer from MOFA)

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A Sample Evaluation : Bangladesh 4 donor evaluation

Since 2005, Evalunet of DAC advocated country level evaluation in order for verifying AID impacts. Bangladesh, as a suitable target.

Participants: World Bank ADB DFID Japan (JICA)

Which, share about 60% to 80% of all AID to Bangladesh. Sept. 2009 CAE (expected) of WB is axis and other donors

participate by inputting to CAE or conducting sector related evaluation.

JICA (previous JBIC) takes part of transport sector evaluation based on its experience. ( on going by Feb 2009)

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4-donor Joint evaluation :Scheme chart

(3)4-donor Joint Evaluation Report (June,2009)Focused on aid coordination

(2) ADB Sector Survey

(Urban, Water, Education)

(2) JICA Sector Survey

(Transport)

(1) WB CAE

(Governance, Growth, Human

Development, Agriculture,

Environment, gender, Aid

Effectiveness)

ADB CAPE(FY 2008 )

Japan CAE(After FY2008)

Addition by DFID, ADB

Feed in

Feed in

Feed in to CAE FY2008 and after

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Thank you.

For further information on our evaluation

http://www.jica.go.jp/english/operations/evaluation/