2015 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 69-81
“New Public Commons” is a policy announced by the cabinet office of Japanese government in 2010. The concept of the policy is to encourage multi-stakeholders to play an active role in providing public services. It is a challenge for both the government and citizens to adapt to the policy, as they used to enjoy economic growth by relying on the government to serve the Public Sector. Many local governments are now reviewing methods of performance measurement adapted to improve the efficiency of management systems, since they did not previously produce the expected results. This paper introduces a “Program Evaluation in Co-management of Local Government (PEC)” implemented in Toyooka city to replace the previous method of performance measurement. This report seeks to clarify the position of PEC as a role of evaluation for public management reform and to review the possibility of PEC based on participatory evaluation as an effective tool to help adopt the New Public Commons policy.
