2019 Volume 2019 Issue 71 Pages 62-83
The purpose of this paper is to review three evaluation findings relating to the recovery and reconstruction policy from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ambiguous policy structure was found to be the common challenge of the evaluation from the perspective of the policy characteristics. Factors for such a structure were also analyzed.
To make evaluation of the recovery and reconstruction policy work was highlighted as difficult. The practical realities show that the evaluation of the policy was not focus on policy effects but on project implementation. The basic principle of the policy requires "adequate evaluation from the perspectives of efficiency, transparency, and priorities" in order to "implement a policy really necessary and effective." However, reflecting on this situation, the evaluation design of the recovery and reconstruction policy is still lukewarm.
