Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research
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Item Participatory Evaluation in Adult Education(Society for Participatory Research In Asia, 1994-11) Tandon, RajeshThere is an interesting debate going on currently through the journal of Adult Education and Development on issues related evaluation of adult education important to programmes world wide. Many important issues have been raised in this debate. This reflection note is intended to contribute further to this debate.Item Visual Self-Evaluation Tools(1999-04-25)Visual-based techniques are especially powerful when M&E involves nonliterate stakeholders, as the pictorial nature of the tools enables everyone to join in the discussions. Care must be taken to ensure that the drawings are appropriate for the culture in which they are used. Many stories have been told of villagers interpreting visual materials in ways quite different from their intended meaning. For example, in a self-evaluation by women beneficiaries of an enterprise management training program in India (see case study in this module), a card showing a doctor holding a large. bottle of medicine was mistakenly interpreted as a drunken husband brandishing a bottle of liquor! This led to considerable confusion before the problem was identified and the card redrawn.Item Monitoring and Evaluation: Case Studies(0000) Mehrota, AmitabhMonitoring 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.Item Using Existing Knowledge and Records(1999-04-05)Evaluation does not only mean collecting new information, facts and statistics. It also means making good use of existing knowledge and records of many kinds. This chapter looks at how important information, facts and statistics can be obtained by using and analysing programme records, reports, case studies profiles, particular incidents, meetings and workshops. It also includes ideas and examples of how maps, pictures and tape recordings can be used in evaluation.Item What is Evaluation(0000)Our workshop series confronted the task of shaping these general propositions into a framework for doing evaluation. Time and again, the workshops had to vanquish misconceptions like the following about the mystique of evaluation: "Evaluation requires a complex research approach that is beyond our capabilities," "You need qualified specialists to produce acceptable evaluations." "Evaluation is some-thing AID does for us anyway." These laments came up frequently. Our most important accomplishment in the workshops was recognition that PVO PRACTITIONERS CAN DO QUALITY EVALUATION!Item Thinking Through an Evaluation Strategy(0000) McCormack, JeanneIn terms of organizational structure, PVOs do not differ greatly from other organizations involved in international development. PVOS usually have a headquarters, whether in the United States or in the Third World, an intermediate level of regional or country offices, and, finally, a local organization that supports particular programs. This Sourcebook focuses on the local level, for it is there that evaluation must begin. But local field programs are directly affected by decisions originating from regional or headquarters levels. It is important, there-fore, that we see local program evaluation as part of the larger evaluation system.Item Monitoring and Evaluation(0000) Mehrota, AmitabhMonitoring is a continuous/periodic review and surveillance by management: at every level of the implementation of an activity to ensure that input deliveries, work schedules, targeted outputs and other required actions are proceeding according to plan. 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. The monitoring of programme implementation is an activity that is undertaken at many different points in the development of programmes and in the management of enacted programmes. Programme monitoring is particularly vital to development process, when programmes are tested and refined. Programme designers need to know what problems are encountered in implementation so that changes may be made in programme design to overcome such obstacles. No matter how well planned an innovative programme may be unexpected results and unwanted side effects often rapidly surface in the course of early implementation.Item Community Based Monitoring(0000)Community Based Monitoring (CBM) is a tool for learning from experience from success and failure. It helps every one to learn, and it helps everyone plan better next time, or improve upon existing ways of doing things. It is above all, a system developed primarily for use by the community members. CBM is a process by which the community members gather and generate data to monitor progress of development processes, and through which they educate themselves and others to increase control over their own destiny.Item Local-Based Organizing Program with the Indigenous Group in the Philippines: A Mangyan Case(0000) Manio, PatThis case study highlights the local organizing efforts among the Mangyan tribes in the Philippines. These indigenous groups, numbering approximately 4 million nationwide, face exploitation and challenges to their self-identity, ancestral lands, indigenous laws, and culture. The initiative, spearheaded by an NGO starting in 1980, employed participatory methods such as rural conscientization, community integration, and leadership development to empower Mangyan communities. The program evolved through phases of assessment, skills training, and participatory evaluation to establish formal community organizations addressing social, educational, economic, and health issues. The study emphasizes the challenges, strategies, and outcomes of participatory organizing efforts in fostering self-reliance and solidarity among indigenous groups.