Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research
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Item Manual for the Monitoring and Evaluation of a People's Participation Project(1985-07) Oakley, PeterMonitoring and evaluation are important aspects of any rural programme. This manual is concerned with the monitoring and evaluation of People's Participation Projects being developed in a number of African countries. The monitoring and evaluation of People's Participation Projects, the author says, must stress the need for developing income-generating or other economic activities with the rural poor and developing self-sustaining organisations. Such activities will serve as the basis for development efforts by the rural poor in future. This manual explains the ways in which this kind of monitoring and evaluation can be done.Item Evaluating Social Development: Outcomes and Impact-A Review of the Current State of Play(1996-10) Oakley, PeterThis paper outlines the focus and aims of the international workshop on the evaluation of social development held in November 1996. The three main objectives of the workshop were: to provide a forum in which development agencies and individuals involved in evaluation of social development can make contact and exchange ideas on the issue; to update thinking and practice and to assess the current scenario; and to focus on the outcome-effect-impact aspects of the evaluation of social development.Item Participants' Profile(2001-08-20)Item Invitation to Attend Intrac's Conference 2006: Sixth Evaluation Confrence 3-5,April 2006 , The Netherlands(2006-04-03) INTRACInternational conferences and workshops on the evaluation of social development have been a regular feature of the INTRAC calendar for nearly fifteen years. These events are now well established as key forums in which practitioners and policy makers from a variety of agencies are able to come together to debate current trends in the sector. Proceedings at each of the conferences have been brought together into a series of publications.¹Item Chambers,Robert.Rural Appraisal: Rapid Relaxed and Participatory Rural Appraisal Methods and Applications in Rural Planning(Vikas Publishing House, 2001-08-20) Chambers, RobertThe past decade has witnessed more shifts in the rhetoric of rural development than in its practice. These shifts include the now familiar reversals from top-down to bottom-up, from centralised standardization to local diversity, and from blueprint to learning process. Linked with these, there have also been small beginnings of changes in modes of learning. The move here is away from extractive survey questionnaires and towards participatory appraisal and analysis in which more and more the activities previously appropriated by outsiders are instead carried out by local rural or urban people themselves. In these changes, a part has been played by two closely related families of approaches and of methods, often referred to as Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) which spread in the 1980s, and its further evolution into Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) which has come about fast and begun to spread in the 1990s. The purposes of this paper are to outline the origins, principles, approaches, methods and applications of both RRA and PRA; and for PRA, to explore and assess its strengths, weaknesses, potentials and paradigmatic significance.Item Designing Methodologies for Participatory Monitoring and Impact Assessment of CSIP's Intervensions on Different Verifiable Indicators(1996-10-07) Kar, Kamal; Gosawami, ShibaniThis report is a detailed document of the consultation, field testing and fine tunning of the various participatory impact assessment methodologies developed by the core group of specialists of Community Development, Health and Engineering sectors of the Calcutta Slum Improvement Project, Calcutta, under the guidance of Kamal Kar, ODA Consultant. During July 1996 an ODA consultancy mission reviewed the output and impact monitoring arrangements of C. S. I. P. and also assessed the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of present monitoring system. This study is basically a follow-up to that, particularly in strengthening the impact assessment approaches more from the standpoint of end-users of the project in as much participatory way as possible. Under this study efforts have been made to investigate in detail each of the purpose and output level verifiable indicators (as mentioned in the Logical Frame work of the project), in full participation of the slum dwellers.Item Monitoring and Evaluation(0000) Satyamurti, V."Social Programmes" are programmes designed to improve the quality of life by improving the capacity of citizens to participate fully in social, economic and political activities at the local or national level programmes. They may focus on improving physical well being and access to services, protecting vulnerable groups from adverse consequences of economic reform and structural adjustment or providing education literacy, employment and income generating opportunities. They may focus directly on local empowerment and equip in issues by strengthening community organisations, encouraging to participate in development or alleviating poverty. Significant number of these programmes fail to fully achieve their objectives. Little is known how well programmes are able to sustain and even less about the extent to which programmes are able to produce their intended impacts.