Study on the Current Status of and Issues in Policy Evaluation by Agencies

Abstract

  This article presents the issues of the evaluation functions by the agencies which are a form of organization in the Japanese central government. Agencies are classified into two types. First is “implementation agency” that implements project and operational works, and second type is “planning agency” that have a function of the formulation of the program and project. Each agency implements the different evaluations.

  In this article, I consider the actual evaluation of each agency. Firstly, I clarify the contents of function of each agency. Based on these functions, I propose the evaluation fitted to each agency’s function. Secondly, comparing the suitable evaluation and the actual evaluation, I derive some issue of the actual evaluation.