基于平衡记分卡的非营利组织评估体系研究

现有非营利组织评估理论与方法存在许多缺陷与不足,有必要借鉴平衡记分卡理论探讨建立体现、适合我国非营利组织特点与需要的评估体系。基于平衡记分卡的非营利组织评估体系设计应遵循系统原则、关键原则、发展原则、分类原则。评估体系设计应该以战略和使命为中心,形成“使命(战略)——维度——基本指标——观察指标——分类指标”多维度、多层次评估体系。     

公平还是福利？这是一个问题

应该以什么标准来评价公共政策？是公平和正义吗？抑或个人福利？关于这个基本问题的争论已经延续了许多时代。路易斯·卡普洛和斯蒂文·沙维尔这两位来自哈佛法学院的美国法经济学新生代思想家通过《公平与福利》一书,对当代道德哲学和法学理论研究提出大胆挑战：绝大多数的道德原则和福利之间的冲突远比人们一般性的认知更加尖锐;所有的道德原则,如果不是完全以福利为基础,有时候就会倾向采用一些让每个人都变糟的政策。他们的分析表明,绝大多数道德原则在表面上看起来很吸引人,但是如果进一步细查的话,它们都有某种功能性的解释,而这种解释在评价公共政策之时,并不能证明其被赋予独立重要性的正当性。基于《公平与福利》一书对政策分析的理论和实践有着深远意义,它已经在西方学术界引起相当热烈的讨论,本文在梳理书中基本理论和主要观点的基础上,对其思想的来龙去脉进行了批判性解读,并以此为契机,展望了法经济学运动的未来发展。     

我国公务员绩效评估的实践困境与出路——基于新公共服务视角

“新公共服务”理论是基于对“新公共管理”理论的反恩和批判而建立的一种新的公共行政理论。该理论的核心价值在于：重视公民权利、公民意识、公民价值;追求公共利益,提高政府服务职能;建立民主对话基础上的政府与社区、民众的合作信任和互动共治。这一理论为我国摆脱公务员绩效评估体系的实践困境提供了指南针。“新公共服务”理论对我国公务员绩效评估体系提出的新挑战,并为我国公务员绩效评估改革提供了新的思路。     

Exploring project sustainability: using a multiperspectival,multidimensional approach to frame inquiry

In development studies, programme sustainability has gained significant attention in recent years. One challenge to sustainability is the range of stakeholders involved in international development projects, presenting multiple perspectives and priorities, not always in harmony, nor necessarily communicated. This article presents an approach to facilitating stakeholder sustainability dialogue, an analytic framework for programme sustainability inquiry comprising five dimensions: political; economic; institutional; ownership; and practice. To demonstrate this framework we describe inquiry into stakeholder perspectives in one Afghanistan education development project. The results indicate the value of multidimensional, multiperspectival inquiry in identifying areas of potential sustainability challenge and strength.     

Can school children reliably collect rural household data in developing countries? Evidence from Nepal

Household surveys are an important tool for assessing the status or trends of rural households, farms, and communities, and for conducting research. Conducting surveys in rural communities in developing countries is expensive and logistically challenging. We investigated whether primary school children could efficiently collect household or farm data as part of their homework. We hypothesised that primary school students can collect accurate data and therefore it should not be different from the data collected by trained interviewers. The results indicate that primary schools may be an excellent resource for efficiently collecting information about rural households and farm families in developing countries.     

Most Significant Change in conflict settings: staff development through monitoring and evaluation

Capoeira4Refugees is an NGO that uses the Afro-Brazilian art form of Capoeira to promote psychosocial well-being in children affected by conflict and occupation. Capoeira4Refugees introduced the Most Significant Change (MSC) methodology to monitor and evaluate project implementation and impact across two locations in the Middle East. Analysis of interviews conducted with five field staff revealed that in line with, and building on, previous research, MSC became an empowering tool that led to staff development. The potential for MSC to build staff reflexivity, independence, and leadership has implications for other organisations working in conflict areas, particularly in situations of remote management.     

创新执法质量监督机制科学评估依法行政水平

北京市公安局的执法质量评估预警机制是首都公安依法行政进程中的一项内部执法监督机制创新。该机制以强化执法监督、推进首都公安依法行政、强调公安执法法律效果和社会效果的统一为主要内容,紧密围绕公安法定职责,以执法质量管理为核心,引入现代执法管理手段,实现了对全局执法质量的等级化管理,对有效掌控全局执法态势、推进依法行政工作起了重要作用。同时,也对建立健全依法行政评估考核机制的探索具有重大理论和实践意义。     

Promoting NGO–academic partnerships for population,health, and environment learning

Population, health, and environment (PHE) projects integrate family planning, community health, conservation, and livelihoods activities into a single effort. Despite growing calls for integrated services, relatively little academic research on PHE has been published, which has hampered the development of the approach. This article argues that additional partnerships between academics and NGOs are necessary to further advance learning around PHE. However, such partnerships need not be approached in the same way. The article discusses barriers that currently impede the development of stronger partnerships and adapts (Roper, L. 2002. “Achieving Successful Academic-Practitioner Research Collaborations.” Development in Practice 12 (3–4): 338–345) typology of NGO–academic partnership models to describe how different relationship types are currently leveraged within the PHE community.     

Can technology change the existing culture? Case study on Bangladesh’s public sector

This article highlights the challenges development aid donors can face in Bangladesh’s post-colonial culture, as well as substantiating how lack of quality control in an aid project can influence local values, beliefs, and subjective experiences. The article also suggests that improving quality control, such as through monitoring and evaluation (M&E), can generate greater impact of development aid resources.     

Assessing the impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme for women in Peru

This article reports on research that aimed to assess the economic and social impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme targeted to women in Peru, looking at overall and differentiated impacts according to design features, on a sample of 300 women in participant and non-participant communities. The study found significant positive impacts on women’s time devoted to work outside the house and in their saving propensity, although no significant change on time allocated to domestic activities. It also detected some effects on an index of family cohesion and on home improvements. Finally, there was evidence that some design features influence the magnitude and significance of these impacts.