ABSTRACT
Performance budgeting (PB) focuses on using performance measurement during the budgetary process to help government agencies manage public resources more efficiently and effectively and to strengthen the transparency of, and accountability for, how public resources are used. This chapter presents a brief history of the policy development related to the use of third parties in the Chinese PB reform. It provides a case study of Dataway Horizon, a totally private consulting and evaluation firm, and utilizes its development to illustrate the evolving roles of third party evaluation in the Chinese PB process. In China, PB has been introduced and developed since 2003. External stakeholders of the program or project may also be invited to discuss the evaluation methods, processes, performance indicators with the third-party evaluators to finalize the evaluation plan. Since 2012, Dataway Horizon has followed the development of the Chinese performance budgeting reform and expanded its business in PB performance and evaluation.
