Proposals that had been filed as a means of driving the implementation of public-private partnership projects were compiled into agenda of deliberation to explore ways to use a mixed concession program for public facilities, etc.

A total of 31 innovative public-private partnership support projects were adopted and feasibility studies, etc. were conducted in Hamamatsu City to explore the sewage projects by utilizing the concession program for public facilities, etc.

In addition, 14 public-private partnership support projects designed to facilitate recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake were adopted and feasibility studies, etc. were conducted in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture to implement an earthquake recovery community development project, involving a supply of disaster public housings, in a public-private partnership.

## Section 7 Policy Evaluations, Project Evaluations and Interactive Administration

## Driving Policy Evaluations

Pursuant to the “Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Basic Plan for Policy Evaluations,” the three key schemes of evaluating policies, namely, policy assessments (Project Evaluation Method), policy checkups (Performance Evaluation Method) and policy reviews (Comprehensive Evaluation Method) have been defined in a bid to achieve the following three goals: realization of efficient and high-quality nation-oriented administration; promotion of performance-centric administration; and thorough perfection of accountability to the nation. At the same time, individual public-works projects, individual research and development issues, regulations and special taxation measures have been subjected to policy evaluations to suit specific policy characteristics. In August 2013, policy checkups were made on 13 policy goals using 44 measure goals and 181 performance indicators. Further, 36 new measures were subjected to policy assessment at the time of the request for FY2014 budget appropriation on the basis of directions, etc. for the improvement of policies evaluated. In March 2014, policy reviews were conducted on three subjects $ ^{Note 1} $ .

## 2 Implementation of Project Evaluations

A fully integrated scheme of evaluating individual public-works projects is built in place to enhance the efficiency and transparency of their implementation. Under this scheme, new public-works projects are evaluated upon initial adoption and then reevaluated and post-evaluated upon completion. Evaluation results, including cost-effectiveness back data on new adoption, reevaluation and post-evaluation, are compiled into project evaluation charts to help confirm their background, which are posted on the Internet or the like Note $ ^{2} $ .

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism also conducts its own planning stage evaluation for new projects under its direct supervision in preparation for their evaluation upon initial adoption.

## 3 Driving Administrative Management Open to the Nation and Interactive Administration

## (1) Land, Infrastructure, Transport Hotline Station

In driving the land, infrastructure, transport and tourism administration that has a close bearing on people’s lives, it is important to gain a broad insight into the views, requests and other voices of the people and deploy administrative measures that are directly linked to the people. To this end, the Land, Infrastructure, Transport Hotline Station is open, collecting about 1,100 views a month on the average.