Evaluation Guides

Table of Contents

JICA Guideline for Project Evaluation

Part I: JICA's Project Evaluation (PDF/211KB)

Chapter 1 Outline of JICA's Project Evaluation

• 1. Objectives of JICA's Project Evaluation
• 2. Types of JICA's Project Evaluation
• 3. JICA's Evaluation System
• 4. Evaluation Feedback
• 5. Criteria for Good Evaluation

Chapter 2 Frameworks and Basic Steps of JICA's Project Evaluation

• 1. Evaluation as a Management Tool
• 2. Framework of Evaluation
• 3. Major Steps of JICA's Project Evaluation

Part II: JICA’s Evaluation Methods

Chapter 1 Confirming Evaluation Purposes and Organizing Information on Target Project (PDF/457KB)

• 1. Confirmation of Evaluation Purpose
• 2. Grasping the Whole Picture of a Target Project
• 3. Utilization of the Logical Framework
• 4. Grasping the Implementation Situation: Information on Performance and Implementation Process

Chapter 2 Planning Project Evaluation (PDF/316KB)

• 1. Developing Evaluation Questions
• 2. Basis for Judgment
• 3. Considering Necessary Data and Information Sources
• 4. Data Collection Methods
• 5. Formulating an Evaluation Grid

Chapter 3 Interpretating Data and Reporting Evaluation Results (PDF/54KB)

• 1. Data Interpretation
• 2. Making Recommendations and Proposing Lessons Learned
• 3. Reporting Evaluation Results

Part III: Management of Project Evaluations

Chapter 1 Issues in Managing Evaluations (PDF/76KB)

• 1. The Role of JICA Project Operational Departments
• 2. Preparation of the Advertisement of a Contract
• 3. Preliminary Preparation for the Evaluation
• 4. Managing On-site Evaluations
• 5. Preparation of the Evaluation Report
• 6. Feedback of Evaluation Results

Chapter 2 Issues in Ex-ante and Ex-post Evaluation (PDF/570KB)

• 1. Key Issues of Ex-ante Evaluation Studies
• 2. Issues of Monitoring and Mid-term Evaluation Studies
• 3. Key Issues of Terminal Evaluation Studies
• 4. Key Issues of Ex-post Evaluations

Frequently Asked Questions regarding JICA's Project Evaluation (PDF/151KB)

Attached Materials 220

• 1. What is the Logical Framework?
• 2. What is Participatory Evaluation?
• 3. What is Performance measurement?
• 4. Bibliography

NOTE: This guideline is a translation of major parts of the Japanese original version; "JICA Jigyo Hyoka Guideline ~ Project Hyoka no Jissenteki Shuho~", Office of Evaluation and Post Project Monitoring, Planning and Evaluation Department, JICA, March 2004.