| General Information |
Project/Program |
Project |
| Project Name |
The Project For Strengthening of Medical Equipment Management at Referral Hospitals |
| Duration |
22, Nov. 2009 - 21, Nov. 2014 |
| Donor |
JICA |
| Implementiong Organization |
Ministry of Health |
| Sector and/or Subsector Classification |
Health |
| Region |
No region was specified in the Implementation Completion Report. |
| Financing |
Total cost: 409,519,000 Japanese Yen |
| Analytical Information |
Stakeholders |
JICA Cambodia Office, Ministry of Health, Estrella Inc. and Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP) |
| Cross-cutting Issue |
Environment |
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| Gender |
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| Impact Analysis |
The achievement level is already high because the Project has scaled up and included all the CPA2. The Overall Goal is likely to be achieved in three to five years after the termination of the Project if appropriate supports to continue the activities are provided by MOH(the Ministry of Health). 21 out of 22 hospitals reached the level for both monitoring aspects as of the first semester of 2014. The Project mostly achieved all the Outputs and the Project Purpose. It will be possible to fully achieve the Project Purpose by the end of the project period if the project team provides appropriate follow-up activities. Regarding an evaluation by five criteria, relevance is high, and effectiveness, efficiency and impact are moderately high while sustainability is medium. |
| Effectiveness |
Ownership/Partnership |
Evaluation |
As many as 1,800 persons have benefitted from various training and seminars conducted by the Project. Also, though the initial target was 32 hospitals (86 personnel), the Project successfully reached to 50 hospitals (128 personnel) without budget increase. Due to the four-month interval in 2012 and increase of target hospitals, many activities were concentrated in 2013, and it made the project team difficult to conduct regular monitoring. Meanwhile, because of the increase of target hospitals and decrease of active NWT members, the workload of remaining NWT members increased. Moreover, two different Japanese experts were dispatched under the same task in 2013. Due to different opinions of the two consultants, the project team needed to revise the manual, which had been finalized only a few months before. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Policy Coherence/Harmonization |
Evaluation |
The Project is relevant to the Cambodian policy as increasing investment in medical equipment and improvement of support services including management and maintenance is one of the policy directions of the Health Strategic Plan (2008-2015). The Project is relevant to the Japanese aid policy for Cambodia as it includes promotion of social development as one of the assistance areas.
The Project has been relevant to the needs of the government and hospitals because the country did not have an ME(Medical Equipment) management system, and there were no other donors assisting in this field. Establishing a network among MOH, CPA3(Complimentary Package of Activities 3) and CPA2 was appropriate as knowledge accumulated in NWT and CPA3can be shared with CPA2. |
| Rating |
5/5 |
| Evaluation Framework |
Evaluation |
The members of the Evalucation Team consists of 4. Evalucation period was from May 26 to June 13, 2014 and the joint Evaluation Team administrate questionnaire. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Alignment/Composition of Finance |
Evaluation |
In Total, 45,320 USD was made available from the Cambodian side for training and seminars. Though MOH expressed the will to make efforts to secure budget for future activities, it is necessary to make more concrete plans to secure future budget. Meanwhile, it is expected that securing budget will be facilitated once the policy and strategic documents are approved. Moreover, it is a big challenge for hospitals to secure funds for ME repair and transportation fee to visit other hospitals for guidance and consultation. |
| Rating |
4/5 |
| Other Remarks |
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