[Vnbiz] Project evaluation

[LeDieu Anh]

Dear Thanh An,

Thank you for the information and the link.

I simply think that every actor needs to do evaluation to meet his/her
own interest/purpose.  To my opinion, an evaluation report done by
donor, while can give some useful information  for VN government, does
not address all aspects to improve project performance, management and
policy making, and some broader issues such as development cooperation
from the view point of an insider. On government side, it is very
important since it would help to use the fund more effectively and
efficiently, not only ODA but also local fund. More than that, lessons
of some projects can have certain effects on practice and policy
making. In terms of post-project evaluation, I think it is now very
relevant to resettlement component of projects as its true effects can
be measured only after a period of time, say 5 years.

I would love to have a copy of the NH 1 project evaluation report by
Japan. This week, chi Thanh Binh of your deparment will come down here
for my project SC meeting (on 12). Could you help to send it via chi
Binh? I will give you the copying cost back via chi Binh, too. Thanks
a lot, sister.

Have a nice day, dear sister.
 Dieu Anh

On 1/5/07, Pham Thi Thanh An <thanhan2505 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
> Dear chi Anh, chi Thu and CACC,
> You are right, chi Anh, that post or ex-post evaluation of development
> projects is still rare and new in Vietnam (it is the most difficult out of
> all types of project evaluation, which include, among others, ex-ante,
> mid-term, and ex-post evaluation). For a simple fact that it is also new
> even in the public sector of the developed and industrialized world. What I
> have learnt from a friend of mine, who was once the President of the
> International Evaluation Association (I am not 100% sure if I remember the
> name correctly, but must be around it), which by his words, the first of its
> type in the world that links together evaluators - the notion of evaluation
> only started to emerge during mid to late 90s or early years of this decade.
> One of the demands for evaluation clearly comes from need to see to what
> extent (and originally justify) that donor money (which are also taxpayers'
> money) are spent widely and effectively. Also, it starts to evolve with the
> increasing result-based management agenda in a number of developed nations.
>
> In Vietnam, there are not many development projects that have been subject
> to ex-post evaluation, and if yes, all of them are done by donors. One of
> those very few that I know is the evaluation done for My Thuan bridge by
> AusAID. You could find the report at
> http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/my_thuan_monitoring_report.pdf in
> 2003, about 3 years after the project completion. Japan later in the year
> also did another similar exercise for the National Highway No.1 project, the
> report of which I have only available in hardcopy. This is part of a broader
> assessment of the impacts of selected large-scale infrastructure projects on
> economic growth and poverty reduction in Vietnam. So if any of you
> interested in it, let me know so that I can share it with you.
> Hope this helps.
> Best,
> Thanh An
>
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