| General Information |
Project/Program |
Project |
| Project Name |
Strengthening of Construction Quality Control Project |
| Duration |
May 2009 - October 2012 |
| Donor |
JICA |
| Implementiong Organization |
Ministry of Public Works and Transport(MPWT) |
| Sector and/or Subsector Classification |
Transport |
| Region |
N.A. |
| Financing |
430 million yen |
| Analytical Information |
Stakeholders |
Ministry of Public Works and Transport(MPWT), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Japanese side) |
| Cross-cutting Issue |
Environment |
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| Gender |
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| Impact Analysis |
It is expected that Overall Goal is likely to be achieved if the strong initiative from MPWT were demonstrated in a sustainable manner even after the project terminates.
On the other hand, some positive impacts were observed. The activities such as technical seminars and giving opportunities for presentation their papers upgraded the skills and knowledge of MPWT/DPWT engineers in the areas other than quality control. Throughout this project, MPWT raised awareness on the roles of counterpart in the technical cooperation project (TCP) since they were used to receive assistance in the form of Grant Aid project and development study and TCP was the first experience for them. In
addition, the project built a network among different departments of MPWT by involving various MPWT offices in relation to force account projects. No negative impact has been observed. |
| Effectiveness |
Ownership/Partnership |
Evaluation |
Due to late procurement process of Japanese short-term experts and assignment of CPs, the project structure was established only in January 2010, which made some delays in the activities especially in the initial stage of the project. The commencement of the pilot projects in the 1st phase also affected by this together with the long dialogues with MEF and flood. However, it was noted that active involvements in the project activities from CPs especially after the mid-term review made possible to achieve the project purpose despite their heavy workload from other duties. As a result, the Cambodian side increased the ownership of QC/QA system and gained the knowledge and skills for road and bridges. The communication between CPs and Japanese experts has been made smoothly and information on the Project such as progress and issues was shared at regular meetings and through e-mails. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Policy Coherence/Harmonization |
Evaluation |
The relevance of the project is highly relevant with following points. The Project was well aligned with Cambodian overall development strategy of “Rectangular Strategy II (RSII: 2008) and the national five-year development plan (NSDP 2006-2010). The physical infrastructure development for transport is one of the Cambodia’s priority areas stated in both RSII and NSDP. As the increase in the maintenance cost of roads and bridges pressed the national budget, improvement of the capacity of MPWT on quality control was the urgent needs especially for force account projects which the quality control practices have not been made in an appropriate manner. In this regard, the Project met the needs of MPWT. Furthermore, the Project was also in line with the Japan’s Assistance Policy for Cambodia
(2004) and JICA’s Country-specific Implementation Plan (2007). |
| Rating |
5/5 |
| Evaluation Framework |
Evaluation |
Evaluation team has 5 members;4 from JICA office and 1 from FASID as a eveluation analysist. It held from 20 - 30 August, 2012. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Alignment/Composition of Finance |
Evaluation |
Sustainability of the project effect is relatively high, however, some concerns in financial aspects have been observed in terms of library and database management. It was recommended that necessary budget should be secured for it. The network established among different departments of MPWT by the project will become a foundation of implementation body of quality control. It was confirmed that most of knowledge and skills transferred through the project activities have already been adopted in many CPs. If those trained engineers under the project remained and served to expand the knowledge and skills for all provinces, the technical sustainability will be ensured.
Most of the inputs from Japanese side including dispatching the experts, procurement of equipment, provision of training in Japan and local cost have been made as planned. However, the initial inputs of short-term experts could have made earlier to produce more fruitful outputs. From the Cambodian side, although main counterparts actively involved in the project, there were some turnover of counterparts especially at the initial stage of the project, which reduced some efficiency.
Therefore, efficiency of the project is fair. |
| Rating |
3/5 |
| Other Remarks |
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