Learning from change : issues and experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation

"The case studies and papers contained here grew from an international workshop on PM & E held at the trining campus of the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) outside Manila, Philippines in November 1997"--Pref.

Included Index.

Exploring visions : self-monitoring and evaluation processes within the Nepal-UK Community Forestry Project / Clare Hamilton [and others] --
Seeking local indicators : participatory stakeholder evaluation of farmer-to-farmer projects, Mexico / Jutta Blauert, Eduardo Quintanar --
Adapting participatory methods to meet different stakeholder needs : farmers' experiments in Bolivia and Laos / Anna Lawrence [and others] --
Experimenting with participatory monitoring in north-east Brazil : the case of AS-PTA's Projeto Paraíba / Pablo Sidersky, Irene Guijt --
Strengthening citizen participation and democratization in the Philippines : ELF's impact evaluation / Roy V. Abes --
Monitoring and evaluating local development through community participation : the experience of the Association of Indigenous Cabildos of Northern Cauca, Colombia / Ruben Dario Espinosa Alzate --
Monitoring local development with communities : the SISDEL approach in Ecuador / Victor Hugo Torres D. --
Strengthening citizen participation in evaluating community development : the case of the EZ/EC Learning Initiative in McDowell County, West Virginia / Frances Patton Rutherford --
Growing from the grassroots : building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC / Janet Symes, Sa'ed Jasser --
Getting the right end of the stick : participatory monitoring and evaluation in an organizational context / Penelope Ward --
Participatory monitoring and evaluation : lessons and experiences from the National Poverty Alleviation Programme (NPAP) in Mongolia / Davaa Gobisalkhan, Alexander Menamkart --
Giving evaluation away : challenges in a learning-based approach to institutional assessment / Fred Carden --
Conceptual tools for tracking change : emerging issues and challenges / Dindo M. Campilan --
Methodological issues in participatory monitoring and evaluation / Irene Guijt --
Laying the foundation : capacity building for participatory monitoring and evaluation / Deb Johnson --
Learning to change by learning from change : going to scale with participatory monitoring and evaluation / John Gaventa, Jutta Blauert.

"Participation has become a critical concept in development, increasingly employed in the planning and implementation of development programmes. Learning from Change takes participation one step further by exploring its use in the monitoring and evaluation of those programmes." "Bringing together a broad range of case studies and discussions between practitioners, academics, donors and policymakers, the book explores conceptual, methodological, institutional and policy issues in participatory monitoring and evaluation. It distils the common themes and experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation to show the challenges - and far-reaching benefits - of the approach." "Learning from Change will be of value to readers interested in processes of participatory development, as well as to all development professionals, including fieldworkers, practitioners, researchers and policymakers."--Jacket.