This report concerns the evaluation of the Japan-funded project entitled “Urgent Improvement of Solid Waste Management in Yangon City”. The evaluation was undertaken to assess the performance of the project, the extent to which it has been relevant, efficient, effective, coherent, and sustainable, as well as to assess outlook and sustainability.

The evaluation serves the purposes of accountability, learning, and decision making. It is intended to strengthen accountability by providing the Government of Japan (the donor), UN-Habitat management, the primary beneficiary – Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), Urban, Environmental Conservation and Cleansing Department (UECCD), other implementing partners and
other key stakeholders with credible evidence of what the project achieved in terms of the planned results with the resources used. In keeping with UN-Habitat’s commitment to helping programmes and projects learn and improve, the evaluation serves the purpose of contributing to enhanced learning to understand what worked well, what did not, operational experience,opportunities, and challenges. The sharing of evaluation findings from this evaluation will inform UN-Habitat and the international and local implementing partners and other stakeholders on what worked well and why or what did not work and feed into decision-making processes for the continuation or scaling up of this pilot project or similar projects, as well as improvement of future cooperation agreements.

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