Applying OECD Policy Evaluation Criteria to Child Protection Schemes in Odisha, India
Publication date
दिस्, 2024Details
EPW Special Article Vol. 59, Issue No. 49, 07 Dec, 2024Authors
Lekha Chakraborty, Amandeep Kaur, Jitesh Yadav, Balamuraly BAbstract
The intergovernmental fiscal transfers and state-specific targeted programmes for children in need of care and protection and children in conflict of law are evaluated using the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development criteria of relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. Using the theory of change, various fiscal interventions for child protection are analysed with activities, outputs, intended outcomes and impacts. The analysis revealed that in the post-pandemic fiscal strategy of Odisha, various programmes have been designed by the government to tackle the capability deprivation, hardships, and vulnerabilities faced by the children within the budgetary frameworks and these programmes are made fiscally sustainable through public expenditure convergence within the classification of budgetary transactions. However, the low-utilisation ratios of the funds and the institutional, personnel and infrastructural constraints are identified as the challenges in the effective implementation of child protection programmes.