Abstract
Official Development Assistance (ODA) evaluation is important for securing accountability and improving the quality ODA. This study focuses attention on evaluation of sustainability, which is one of the Development Assistance Committee's five evaluation criteria (DAC5), for water supply projects. In many donor agencies, sustainability is evakiated from the aspect of “sustenance of effects”. However, another important aspect of sustainability is “development of effects”, which may be defined as the ability of ODA recipient projects to independently improve project effects to a higher stage to meet the needs of beneficiaries. Therefore, the aim of this study is to develop an evaluation method for sustainability of water supply projects that considers both aspects of sustenance and development. Field surveys were conducted on water supply projects in three provincial cities in the Philippines. An evaluation framework with quantitative indicators was developed and applied to the projects surveyed.
