PLA 31: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
Most of the articles in this issue of PLA Notes draw on a workshop on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation which was held in the Philippines in November 1997.
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February 1998
Guest Editors: Mae Arevallo, Irene Guijt and Kiko Saladores
This issue explores some of the opportunities for moving towards a monitoring and evaluation process that has greater local value.
It also takes the following challenges into account:
- How do we make monitoring and evaluation more participatory – and maintain high levels of involvement?
- How does participation of diverse groups influence the selection of what we monitor or evaluate?
- What methods are feasible in which contexts?
- How do we use PM&E in hierarchical organisations and in conflict situations?
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Contents
Comparing transect walks with experts and local people
Ishmail Mahiri
Musings on the use of chapati diagrams
Cathy Rozel Farnworth
Participatory community planning: some unresolved challenges from the Gambia
Sharon Truelove
Beauty is in the process and not in the name: an alternative approach for participatory planning
Kamal Bhattacharyya and Ajay Kumar
Reflections on institutionalising participatory approaches in local NGOs in Eastern Nepal
Marion Gibbon and Gopal Shrestha
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Tracking change together
Irene Guijt,, Mae Arevalo and Kiko Saladores
Monitoring and evaluating in the Nepal-UK community forestry project
Raj Kumar Rai
Participatory self-evaluation of world neighbors, Burkina Faso
Paul Bandre
Institutional issues for monitoring local development in Ecuador
Victor Hugo Torres
Growing from the grassroots: building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC
Janet Symes and Sa’ed Jasser
ELF three-year impact evaluation: experiences and insights
Roy Abes
Participatory monitoring and evaluation in flood proofing pilot project, CARE-Bangladesh
Shawkat Ara
Feedback: Can stratified PRA platforms improve dialogue and build consensus?
C.U.Okuye with a response from Somesh Kumar
Extracts: 3D Venn diagram in PRA - a methodological innovation
Somesh Kumar
A brief guide to the principles of PLA (I)
Tips for Trainers: Participation 'poker'
Irene Guijt
