Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research

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Research for Organizing
(0000) Collette, Will
Research is digging facts. Digging facts is as hard a job as mining coal. It means blowing them out from underground, butting them, picking them, shoveling them, loading them, pushing them to the surface, weighing them, and then turning them loose on the public for fuel for light and heat. Facts make a fire which cannot be put out. To get facts requires miners, fact miners. To get coal requires miners. The owners know what they want get it. The workers do not know what they want and get it in the neck.
Monitoring and Evaluation: Case Studies
(0000) Mehrota, Amitabh
Monitoring is a continuous/periodic review and surveillance by at every level of the implementation of an activity to ensure deliveries, work schedules, targeted outputs and other required proceeding according to plan. management that input actions are Monitoring can also be defined as a process of measuring, recording, collecting, processing and communicating information to assist management decision making. To be precise and brief, monitoring system is an information system for management decision making.
Limitations of Monitoring & Evaluation
(0000)
This paper begins by looking at the aim of the monitoring and evaluation process. It is often difficult to put this process in practice. Various limitations are discussed including the main constraint of developing the right indicators to get a realistic output. The paper is of the view that monitoring must be multi-functional so that information generated at one level is useful in the next. In evaluation, with a good baseline as a reference point, the key is to link effects to causes so that NGOs can assess their contribution to change.
Considering some Preliminary Questions
(1994-08-08) Bhatia, SC
This paper looks at objectives and methods used in the monitoring process. specifically in context of the South Asia Partnership-India (SAP). It begins by briefly discussing some techniques involved in the process and then looks at the two stages of monitoring Pre-Project Monitoring and Implementation Process Monitoring. The author stresses that these two stages are needed for the concept of a project/programme to be nurtured right from its beginning.
Collecting Information and Data
(1995)
The paper looks at ways to collect information and data, concentrating on the qualitative aspects of participation. It suggests a number of guiding principles that should-influence the monitoring process and describes different forms of data collection like questionnaires, records and reports, group discussions, field workshops, etc. The paper is of the view that the essential principles to adopt are those of experimentation and continuity. The paper also discusses how to store data and lists the skills needed within the evaluation team.
Logical Framework
(0000)
It is important to remember that planning a project should not be the task of the project manager or organizations staff alone. In addition to their participation in nee assessment, the intended beneficiaries of the project should continue to be involved ... the planning stage. This will ensure that activities, resources, schedules, and expectations are realistic and appropriate for the local community. Again it is important to ensure that local women as well as men are involved in the planning.
Participatory Impact Assessment
(PRIA, 2001-01) Dwivedi, Anju
The words like Impact, Monitoring and Evaluations have been in the development discourse for more than one decade now. As NGOs continue to play important role in development, such words attain greater meaning. There has been increasing concern about NGOS' performance in social development. The questions like how does one know what has happened in public good, how one can measure the process of change, is it easy to trace the pace of transformation etc. have confounded many NGOs. The evaluations of the projects and programmes when taken up demonstrate the achievements in particular fields, and such interventions are largely seen as 'donor driven'. Most NGOs feel forced to take up evaluations not because these were considered important for institutional learning but the next instalments and future course of funding largely depended on evaluations. Generally the words like monitoring, evaluations and impacts are used interchangeably, in reality and practice all three are related but have different meanings. Before untangling the threads of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, it is necessary to understand their relationships with social development.

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