2020 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 121-136
MSC (Most Significant Change) is a participatory and qualitative evaluation method used by Western NGOs and is suitable for evaluation of learning and improvement purposes, but there are few examples of its use in Japan. In this paper, Author compared and reviewed the three cases of MSC evaluation conducted in the disaster recovery, education, welfare in domestic social sectors, and present reference information for effective use of MSC in Japan. As a result of case studies, following points are revealed. The existence of evaluation experts as trainers and coaches, the setting of evaluation purposes according to the characteristics of the method, the collection of data from the viewpoint of the field, the need to intervene to improve the validity of data analysis, etc.. In addition, the difference from other participatory evaluation methods that internalization is relatively easy was recognized. It is expected that MSC will be utilized in domestic social sector projects in the future, but there are issues such as a lack of the experts to guide and appropriate feedback style.
