China’s compartmentalized food safety supervision and administration system has long been blamed for recurring food safety incidents. In response, the State Council launched a major institutional reform that aimed to...China’s compartmentalized food safety supervision and administration system has long been blamed for recurring food safety incidents. In response, the State Council launched a major institutional reform that aimed to realize whole-chain-based food safety supervision and administration, to strengthen grassroots capacity and to adapt to a society that is complex, risk prone, open and pluralistic. According to the State Council’s mandate, the institutional restructuring at various local levels should have been completed by the end of 2013. However, there have been no systematic, open evaluations that have examined progress, effectiveness or effects. This study attempts to explore issues concerning evaluation of the institutional reform： how to understand the role of evaluation in the policy cycle？ What are important evaluation questions in different phases of the policy cycle？ How to identify evaluation priorities？ Specifically, a target group effectiveness evaluation framework was established and applied in Guangzhou city to assess how local government departments responded to the three principal mandates of the State Council’s reforms： integration of mechanisms and functions, integration of resources, and the enhancement of regulatory capability. The results show that such an evaluation framework is a valid way to examine the main goals and components of the reform, but that the indicators and evaluation criteria need be made more context-specific.展开更多
County grass-root food and drug administrations （CGFDA） undertake the front-line supervision of food and drug safety, whose resource allocation is vital to the regulation efficiency and performance. In this article,...County grass-root food and drug administrations （CGFDA） undertake the front-line supervision of food and drug safety, whose resource allocation is vital to the regulation efficiency and performance. In this article, we aimed to analyze the status quo of resource allocation of CGFDA from the aspects of regulatory organization, staff, funding and equipment using official panel data from 2011 to 2016. The results illustrated that the total amount of regulatory resources of CGFDA was increased annuall y, reaching a rather large scale. However, many problems still existed in its allocation. Therefore, a series of measures should be taken to optimize the resource allocation of CGFDA, such as improving the network of institutional CGFDA, increasing the recruitment requirements on educational level and major, reallocating the structure of resources and guaranteeing the resource demand in less-developed areas.展开更多
基金FORHEAD with funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund(RBF)
文摘China’s compartmentalized food safety supervision and administration system has long been blamed for recurring food safety incidents. In response, the State Council launched a major institutional reform that aimed to realize whole-chain-based food safety supervision and administration, to strengthen grassroots capacity and to adapt to a society that is complex, risk prone, open and pluralistic. According to the State Council’s mandate, the institutional restructuring at various local levels should have been completed by the end of 2013. However, there have been no systematic, open evaluations that have examined progress, effectiveness or effects. This study attempts to explore issues concerning evaluation of the institutional reform： how to understand the role of evaluation in the policy cycle？ What are important evaluation questions in different phases of the policy cycle？ How to identify evaluation priorities？ Specifically, a target group effectiveness evaluation framework was established and applied in Guangzhou city to assess how local government departments responded to the three principal mandates of the State Council’s reforms： integration of mechanisms and functions, integration of resources, and the enhancement of regulatory capability. The results show that such an evaluation framework is a valid way to examine the main goals and components of the reform, but that the indicators and evaluation criteria need be made more context-specific.
基金National Social Science Fund (NSSF) of China(Grant No.13BGL141)
文摘County grass-root food and drug administrations （CGFDA） undertake the front-line supervision of food and drug safety, whose resource allocation is vital to the regulation efficiency and performance. In this article, we aimed to analyze the status quo of resource allocation of CGFDA from the aspects of regulatory organization, staff, funding and equipment using official panel data from 2011 to 2016. The results illustrated that the total amount of regulatory resources of CGFDA was increased annuall y, reaching a rather large scale. However, many problems still existed in its allocation. Therefore, a series of measures should be taken to optimize the resource allocation of CGFDA, such as improving the network of institutional CGFDA, increasing the recruitment requirements on educational level and major, reallocating the structure of resources and guaranteeing the resource demand in less-developed areas.
