Analyzing the Present State of Assistance Projects to Evaluate Sustainability for Participatory Irrigation Management:— Case of eight technical cooperation projects by Japan's official development assistance —

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In developing countries, assistance projects to achieve participatory irrigation management (PIM) are implemented. However, benefits from the projects do not always continue. While methods for achievement and factors for continuation of PIM have been studied, judgment of "sustainability" (continuation of the benefits), which is considered in the project evaluation, has not been studied. This paper aims to analyze the present state of project evaluations from the viewpoint of sustainability for eight technical cooperation projects that have been implemented to assist PIM by Japan's official development assistance in the Monsoon Asian Region. Results showed the following: (1) the correlation between each evaluation indicator is not clear. Therefore, an activity for achieving an indicator may unintentionally retard the achievement of another indicator if the people concerned in the project do not adequately recognize the correlation; (2) the existing evaluation guidelines lack fundamental viewpoints for sustainable irrigation management, thus leading to the misjudging of the sustainability of the projects.
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