Social Programming as a Possibility to Increase Social Efficiency

Abstract

In order for the assessment to be reliable, it should be carried out by specialists, using consistent modern standards of methodology. In addition, the information on the assessment results should be available to the main interested parties and should be considered by as wide range of specialists as possible, who are involved in the implementation, financing or development of the social program. Thus, the primary method, used to determine the efficiency of state programs for social support of the population, are the assessment studies of various performance indicators at all stages of implementation of the program. In particular, this concerns the following: – at the stage of development: the program project is assessed by qualitative indicators of the fixed in it basic value reference points (degree of compliance of the 138 objectives of the creators of the program with the objectives of the socio-economic development of the country, the declared legal norms and principles, as well as the expectations of the subjects of the program); – at the implementation stage: the efficiency of the program, expressed in qualitative indicators of the organizational, legal and management components in the implementation of the program (a condition for the efficient social state government appears to be the presence of an effective mechanism for coordination of the social impacts in state social service – an executor of the program); – at the final (assessment) stage: the program is assessed by quantitative indicators of the economic component of efficiency (correlation of the volume of services and their value in terms of limited human and material resources) and qualitative indicators (the degree of compliance of the objectives of managers and organizers of the program with the needs of the subjects of the program). Given the entire multi-aspect character of the assessment of the effectiveness of social programming and its product – the social program, in the context of the management by results, in compliance with the principle "what-if", according to the social work priorities, stemming from the dynamic changes within the social environment, we consider appropriate to offer a model for assessment of the effectiveness, based on the approach of "organizational effectiveness".