2014 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 82-87
In all over the world, many organizations implement project from a viewpoint of sustainable development. In case of Japan, 10.5 billion USD is used for Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2012. Projects were not only implemented but also evaluated by donors, experts and implementers such as NGO and universities. This kind of conventional project evaluation is designed mainly by implementer side and local people regarded as just informants. But criticisms for conventional project evaluation were also studied by other researchers. In 2000, previous study stated that thinking of experts often different from that of people in developing country. Other studies also mentioned that, for improving quality of assistance, it is necessary to conduct project evaluation by adding the point of view of local people and feedback results of project evaluation to local people. However,implementation of participatory evaluation also has difficulties such as resource limitation and conflict of interest. So, this study dealt with the possibility of implementing participatory evaluation for project from a viewpoint of sustainable development in Samroung commune of Cambodia. The study was advanced through comparing evaluation result of conventional evaluation and model participatory evaluation. Result shows that result of two evaluation approaches has some differences because of resource limitation and less objectivity. Therefore, this study concluded that project evaluation better to be done not only by experts but also by local participants. This study proposes different approach of participatory evaluation for evaluating the project properly with more local voice in shorter time and less expense. This approach has potential to enhance accountability toward stakeholdersof Japanese ODA because result of evaluation is led with more local voices with objectivity of experts. Process of this approach also has potential as capacity building for stakeholders including local people in Cambodia.
