Peterson Christina, Skolits Gary
University of Tennessee, College of Education, Health & Human Sciences, United States.
University of Tennessee, College of Education, Health & Human Sciences, United States.
Eval Program Plann. 2020 Jun;80:101799. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101799. Epub 2020 Feb 24.
Value for Money (VfM) is an evaluative question about the merit, worth, and significance of resource use in social programs. Although VfM is a critical component of evidence-based programming, it is often overlooked or avoided by evaluators and decision-makers. A framework for evaluating VfM across the dimensions of economy, effectiveness, efficiency, and equity has emerged in response to limitations of traditional economic evaluation. This framework for assessing VfM integrates methods for engaging stakeholders in evaluative thinking to increase acceptance and utilization of evaluations that address questions of resource use. In this review, we synthesize literature on the VfM framework and position it within a broader theory of Utilization-Focused Evaluation (UFE). We then examine mechanisms through which the VfM framework may contribute to increased evaluation use. Finally, we outline avenues for future research on VfM evaluation.
性价比（VfM）是一个关于社会项目中资源使用的价值、优点和意义的评估性问题。尽管性价比是循证项目规划的关键组成部分，但评估人员和决策者常常忽视或回避它。针对传统经济评估的局限性，一个从经济、有效性、效率和公平性维度评估性价比的框架应运而生。这个评估性价比的框架整合了让利益相关者参与评估性思考的方法，以提高对解决资源使用问题的评估的接受度和利用率。在本综述中，我们综合了关于性价比框架的文献，并将其置于更广泛的以利用为重点的评估（UFE）理论之中。然后，我们研究了性价比框架可能有助于增加评估使用的机制。最后，我们概述了性价比评估未来研究的方向。
