Abstract
Many countries including Japan have been conducting ODA projects in various areas. These vary from hardware-oriented projects such as engineering works to software-oriented projects, namely, social development projects, such as education and extension. The results of a hardware-oriented project are visible and easily evaluated, but those of a software-oriented project are more difficult to evaluate. The authors have been involved in the Reforestation and Extension Project in the Northeast of Thailand (REX), a software-oriented project which aims to promote reforestation by rural villagers themselves. This project has entered its final year and the authors have tried to establish a new method to evaluate it using a GIS application. This paper introduces our trials, and then describes a model way of application of GIS in a software-oriented project.
