Abstract
Six years have passed since the inception of the Mie Prefecture Performance Measurement System and it has now entered its seventh year. Currently, this system serves as the model for evaluation systems implemented by local government.
This system was created as the basic tool for the administrative reform of Mie Prefecture which fundamentally involves a people-oriented administration as its objective. The analyses of its formation and development processes have revealed that the basic nature of this system is affiliated with performance measurement, one of the evaluation types that are currently under debate.
The efficacy of this system has been gradually manifested in the reform attitudes of civil service, the creation of people-oriented policies, and hence the culture of the prefectural government bureaucratic system. While the system will retain its basic nature, it is expected to further improve, being accompanied with two main concerns: effective coordination of various components of this system, and enhancement of citizen participation and collaboration to be incorporated into this system inherently oriented toward internal management.
