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Learning from Change provides an overview of the common themes and experiences in participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation across different institutions and sectors. It is a compilation of selected case studies and discussions between practitioners, academics, donors, and policymakers in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E).

It explores conceptual, methodological, institutional, and policy issues that need to be addressed to enrich our understanding and practice of PM&E. The book is in three sections. The first provides a general overview of PM&E, synthesizing literature surveys and regional reviews of PM&E practice around the world. The second presents case studies that illustrate the diverse range of settings and contexts in which PM&E is being applied. The third raises the key issues and challenges arising from the case studies and discussions, and proposes areas for future research and action.

Learning from Change will be an important reference for development professionals worldwide as well as for anyone interested in the process of participatory development, including researchers, academics, fieldworkers, development practitioners, and policymakers.

THE EDITORS

Marisol Estrella is a Research Associate at the Institute for Popular Democracy in the Philippines. Jutta Blauert is a Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Dindo Campilan works for UPWARD, the Users' Perspectives with Agricultural Research and Development, in the Philippines. John Gaventa is a Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. Julian Gonsalves is Vice-President of the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction in the Philippines. Irene Guijt works for IIED/IUCN in the Netherlands. Deb Johnson works for Sikiliza International in Uganda. Roger Ricafort is the Director of Oxfam Hong Kong.

CONTENTS

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: Learning from change — Marisol Estrella

PART I: METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS

Chapter 2. Exploring visions: Self-monitoring and evaluation processes within the Nepal-UK Community Forestry Project — Clare Hamilton, Raj Kumar Rai, Ram Bahadur Shrestha, Maksha Maharian, Leela Rasaily, and Sibongile Hood

Chapter 3. Seeking local indicators: Participatory stakeholder evaluation of farmer-to-farmer projects, Mexico — Jutta Blauert and Eduardo Quintanar

Chapter 4. Adapting participatory methods to meet different stakeholder needs: Farmers' experiments in Bolivia and Laos — Anna Lawrence, Graham Haylor, Carlos Barahona, and Eric Meusch

Chapter 5. Experimenting with participatory monitoring in northeast Brazil: The case of AS-PTA’s Projecto Paraiba — Pablo Sidersky and Irene Gujit

PART II. LEARNING WITH COMMUNITIES

Chapter 6. Strengthening citizen participation and democratization in the Philippines: ELF’s impact evaluation — Roy V. Abes

Chapter 7. Monitoring and evaluating local development through community participation: The experience of the Association of Indigenous Cabildos of Northern Cauca, Colombia — Ruben Dario Espinosa Alzate

Chapter 8. Monitoring local development with communities: The SISDEL approach in Ecuador — Victor Hugo Torres D.

Chapter 9. Strengthening citizen participation in evaluating community development: The case of the EZ/EC Learning Initiative in McDowell County, West Virginia — Frances Patton Rutherford

PART III. CHANGING INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 10. Growing from the grassroots: Building participatory planning, monitoring, and evaluation Methods in PARC — Janet Symes and Sa’ed Jasser

Chapter 11. Getting the right end of the stick: Participatory monitoring and evaluation in an organizational context — Penelope Ward

Chapter 12. Participatory monitoring and evaluation: Lessons and experiences from the National Poverty Alleviation Programme (NPAP) in Mongolia — Davaa Gobisaikhan and Alexander Menamkart

Chapter 13. Giving evaluation away: Challenges in a learning-based approach to institutional assessment — Fred Carden

PART IV. CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 14. Conceptual tools for tracking change: Emerging issues and challenges — Dindo M. Campilan

Chapter 15. Methodological issues of participatory monitoring and evaluation — Irene Guijt

Chapter 16. Laying the foundation: Capacity building for participatory monitoring and evaluation — Deb Johnson

Chapter 17. Learning to change by learning from change: Going to scale with participatory monitoring and evaluation — John Gaventa and Jutta Blauert

Bibliography
Notes
Author details
Index

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