Evaluations measure the performance of development cooperation projects, find ways to improve, and ultimately, contribute to the advancement of the accountability of projects. Through an objective and scientific evidence-based evaluation, KOICA draws outcome of the projects and reflects them when implementing further projects, thus improving the performance management and implementation system. Moreover, along with the five evaluation criteria of OECD/DAC-relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and impact, cross-cutting issues such as human rights, gender mainstreaming, environment, are also the criteria for evaluation. This helps the comprehensive assessment of the potential and the effect of the projects' contribution to social values.
Procedures and types
Evaluation system and type
Evaluation criteria (OECD/DAC)
ㆍ5 core criteria of OECD/DAC - Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Sustainability, Impact ㆍCross-cutting issues (gender mainstreaming, human rights, environment, etc.)
Consults and supports evaluation capacity building
Operates monitoring and evaluation feedback system
KOICA President
KOICA Evaluation Committee (Annual evaluation plan review & approval)
Evaluation Subcommittee of Development Cooperation Committee under the Office of the Prime Minister
Status and core achievements by yearr
Ten evaluation assignments implemented in 2018 (9 evaluation projects, 1 evaluation study)
Status of Evaluation and Major Achievements by Year
Type
Category
Evaluation
Sector/form
Sector
Comprehensive evaluation on health sector capacity building projects in local communities
Comprehensive evaluation on renewable energy projects
Comprehensive evaluation on agricultural value-chain improvement projects
Form
Comprehensive performance evaluation on public-private cooperation incubating program
Project/program ex-post evaluation
Projects with high cost
Ex-post evaluation of demonstration project for establishing electronic procurement system in Tunisia
Ex-post evaluation of San Pedro General Hospital construction project in Paraguay
Ex-post evaluation of climate change response project in Korea-Indonesia forestry
Projects subject to evaluability assessment*
Ex-post evaluation of after-harvest technical support project in Myanmar
[Integrated] Ex-post evaluation of the first to fourth projects for forestry in Myanmar
Evaluation research
Research on the improvement of strategic utilization of multi-bi projects
* Evaluability assessment
It is a procedure to review the relevancy to policies, possiblity of expansion, availability, and cost feasibility, based on KOICA's specific project evaluation guidelines and the criteria for the annual evaluation. This contributes to selecting projects that have to get ex-post evaluation.
KOICA evaluation in the past three years (2015 - 2017)
Completed 7 types of evaluations
17 sector, thematic, form, and strategic evaluations49 end-of-project evaluation, ex-post evaluations, and evaluation research