Research On The Monitoring And Evaluation Index System Of Agricultural Phase â…¢ That Strengthen Irrigation Using World Bank Loan In Jiangsu Province

Monitoring and evaluation is an important part in the project management, is a necessary mean of project management. Monitoring and evaluation through the whole process of project implementation can provide a scientific basis for the project's management decisions. Not only scientific, but also reasonable monitoring and evaluation of the public investment projects could ensure the investment projects coordination with the social development goals, improve the economic efficiency of investment and the government's scientific decision-making, and at the same time, conducive to rational use of natural resources and environment protection.The main objective of World Bank Phaseâ…¢Project in Jiangsu province is to increase farmers' income and to ensure national food security, its main task is the transformation of low-yielding fields, the development of water-saving agriculture, to improve the basic agricultural production conditions, and the protection of agricultural ecological environment. This is a project that not only difficult, but also closely related to people's livelihood, it is a systems engineering which involve economic, social, political, ecological environment, and so on. In carrying out the process of this complex project, we need evaluate the project's process and benefits at any time, be objective and timely. Indicator system is a quantitative tool for reflecting the economic and social. So, objectively, we should construct an indicator system, which could measure and monitor World Bank Phaseâ…¢Project at any time, to identify problems timely in the course of project implementation. This study can supply reference for the other agricultural projects' construction of monitoring and evaluation index system. In the background of agricultural Phaseâ…¢that strengthen irrigation using World Bank loan in Jiangsu province (World Bank Phaseâ…¢project), this paper studies the monitoring and evaluation index system's construction and application in the agricultural project. The whole paper includes three main parts, the first part is designed to describe World Bank Phaseâ…¢project, including the instruction of project background, project goal of building, and it's content. On the base of the first part, the second part of this paper is designed to construct the monitoring and evaluation index system of the World Bank Phaseâ…¢project. The third part is the index system's application in the World Bank Phaseâ…¢project, at the same time, this part analyze problems that exist in the process of project construction, to supply policy recommendations for the follow-up projects' construction and management.The conclusion of this paper shows that, on the base of World Bank Phaseâ…¢project's background, goal of building, content, and the data availability, the monitoring and evaluation index system could be constructed from these six aspects:water-saving irrigation, modern agricultural service system, demonstration and development of competitive agricultural products, construction of farmer organizations, agricultural ecological environment's construction, institutional development and support. Through the relevant test, this paper chooses a monitoring and evaluation system at last which containing 22 indicators. Specifically, the aspect of water-saving irrigation contains six sub-index:reconstruction area of the low-yielding fields, irrigated area of the water works, canal water efficiency, the number of WUA, WUA coverage, water productivity; the aspect of modern agricultural service system contains four sub-index:seed coverage, IPM rate, the degree of agricultural mechanization, the number of trained technicians; the aspect of demonstration and development of competitive agricultural products contains three sub-index:advantage agricultural area, demonstration and extension area, per capita net income of farmers who products green agricultural products; the aspect of construction of farmer organizations contains five sub-index:the number of new specialized cooperative organizations of farmers, members account for the proportion of local farmers, the number of farmers co-operative trial, per capita net income of farmers in specialized cooperative organizations, per capita net income of farmers in farmers cooperative pilot; the aspect of agricultural ecological environment's construction contains two sub-index:farmland area and forest coverage; the aspect of institutional development and support contains two sub-index:domestic visits and domestic training. The application of this monitoring and evaluation index system shows that, it is not only scientific. but also reasonable. At the same time, on the base of the construction and application of this monitoring and evaluation index system, this paper concludes the problems exiting in the World Bank Phaseâ…¢project, and analyze problems that exist in the process of project construction, supplies policy recommendations for the follow-up projects' construction and management. The policy recommendations main includes five aspects:intensify the demonstration and development of competitive agricultural products, improve the construction of farmer organizations constantly, increase the organizational guarantee of project monitoring and evaluation, and increase the intensity of management and protection after construction, strengthening monitoring and evaluation of the Comprehensive agricultural development project.