AHP를 이용한 KOICA 농업분야 원조사업의 평가

Evaluation of KOICA’s Agricultural ODA Projects Using AHP

The amount of aids by Korea continues to grow, and it is essential to increase the effectiveness of Korea’s aid in line with the goals of international society. Therefore, the goal of this study is to develop a quantitative approach, by which aid effectiveness can be measured and increased, with application to the previous agricultural ODA projects of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). To this end, this study utilizes the Analytic Hierarchy Process that makes use of evaluation scores of experts from evaluation reports (meta-evaluation) and field visits. Among The five OECD DAC criteria, it is found that Effectiveness is the most important criterion, while in the analysis of priorities in agriculture, Agricultural Water Resources is found to be the most important area. By applying the same method to the subcategories, criteria by which to compare projects and to determine the order of priorities is established. This study also analyzes the attributes of agricultural ODA projects of KOICA by examining the factors that affect project performance, international studies on aid effectiveness, the OECD DAC Peer Reviews, CDI, and QuODA. Project size in budget and period are selected as internal factors. Policy, cultural environment, economic structure, and population distribution of the partner countries are selected as external factors. The key analytic result from using the aforementioned factors is that there is no significant relationship among project performance and internal factors. However, significant relationships among project performance and external factors are found, in line with partner countries’ characteristics. Furthermore, the key analytic results in terms of economic structure and population distribution are that the performance of the agricultural ODA projects of KOICA is positively related to the agricultural GDP of the partner countries, and that they show high-level performance in regions with a high proportion of rural residents. Based on these findings, the important of the agricultural sector in reducing poverty in the ODA projects in agriculture of KOICA is confirmed.