2024 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 49-61
“Evaluation fatigue” is one of the major issues in municipal evaluation. Some local governments have reduced the number of projects to be evaluated in order to eliminate “evaluation fatigue”. There are also cases where municipal evaluation systems themselves have been suspended or even abolished due to “evaluation fatigue”.
From the author’s previous interviews with local government officials, it was found that they do not spend enough time on municipal evaluation to become fatigued. This paper will clarify when the term “evaluation fatigue” began to be used, based on the author’s practical experience as a consultant and the results of a survey the author conducted. It also clarifies how much time administrative staff in local governments spend on municipal evaluation. Through these findings, this paper reports that while there are whispers of “evaluation fatigue,” in reality, it does not create that much of a burden for many administrative officials, and this paper examines and proposes measures to eliminate this “evaluation fatigue”.
