JICA Guideline for Project Evaluation (September 2004)

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.