A comparative study on ODA funding trend and evaluation system of U.S., U.K., and Japan

Abstract

Objective:To compare the ODA funding and evaluation policy system of United States, United Kingdom and Japan and to determine their trend of ODA for guiding a future direction to emerging donor countries.Method:The development funding trend of three countries and their new evaluation policy system were initially reviewed through each countries'' relevant documents including international policy documents, budget statements, evaluation committee reports, annaul evaluation reports, OECD-DAC online database and statistics and related academic literatures.Results:Comparing three major donor countries - United States, United Kingdom and Japan- represents that they move aid focus from economic development to social sectors development with various aid channels. Moreover, for maximizing the effectiveness of aid, those countries reformed the ODA policy, especially the evaluation policy, with setting up the independent evaluation department and external evaluation system.Conclusion:Following the lessons from the precedent of traditional donor countries over the half a century, emerging donor countries are necessarilyapply the advanced ODA methods, increasing the volume of multilateral channel and focusing on social sector in Asia-Pacific region, to their future ODA activities. It helps to avert the gratuitous redundances of wasting money and time. Taking this advantage, emerging donor countries could perform a prominent develop in their new ODA world qua an aid donor, not as a recipient anymore. Futhermore, emerging donor countries are necessarily concentrate their concern on the build up the independent evaluation department at the beginning stage of organized ODA system for increasing the effectiveness and transparancy of foreign aid. It might be created a synergy effect to further strengthen of ODA.