| Author | Rahman, A. H. M. Mahbubur |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. 1082 |
| Subject(s) | Water resources development--Thailand--Chao Phraya River
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The art of project appraisal is subject to progressive evolution.
Feedback of operating results to program planning is essential. Unfortunately, in developing countries, the need to evaluate the actual performance of water resource projects has not been sufficiently urgent to warrant the reallocation of scarce analytic talent from the task of ex ante appraisal to that of ex-post evaluation. Even in developed countries, only recently has it been possible to find any significant research at all that focuses on the economic results of public projects after they
have had time to develop a performance record. With economic factors, the need to include non-economic factors, eg., social and environmental factors in both project appraisal and evaluation cannot be over emphasized. While ex-post evaluation and performance
measurement of water resource projects have prior ex-ante analysis as a benchmark against which actual program performance can be judged, there is no such yardstick in the areas of non-economic factors. Ex-post evaluation of social effects would be a matter of comparing the relevant observed
characteristics of a selected group of people affected by a project with those of an analogue group of unaffected individuals. Salinity, increased
use of fertilizer and pesticide, changes in the ecosystems are some of the major environmental implications to be assessed in irrigation project planning.
Ex-post evaluation of Chao Phraya irrigation project to be limited to its economic performance for obvious reasons. The project has been able to boost up production exceeding the target contributing to the earning of
valuable foreign currency for the country. The efficiency of the project as measured by the B/c ratio and IRR has been calculated to be 3.12 and
14.36% respectively which is reasonably satisfactory still leaving room for further increase by adopting to careful implementation of land consolidation program. |
| Year | 1978 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | Student Research Before 1979 |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Thesis (Year <=1979) |
| Chairperson(s) | I, Fude |
| Examination Committee(s) | Apichart Anukularmphai ; Prida Thimakorn |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | UNDP/Bangladesh |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1978 |