Learning from Change: Issues and Experiences in Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd.
Author(s): Marisol Estrella, Jutta Blauert, Dindo Campilan, John Gaventa,Julian Gonsalves, Irene Guijt, Deb Johnson, and Roger Ricafort
Date: 2000
Topics: Governance, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Renewable Resources
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Laos, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, United Kingdom, United States
This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from their different perspectives, contexts, and settings. The purpose of the book is not to establisha singular definition of PM&E practice, but to pull together these experiences, review these efforts, and see what key issues and questions emerge. This book focuses, above all, on the process of doing PM&E. Emphasis is placed not only on what is being monitored and evaluated, but more on who is measuring and howdifferent concerns and interests are negotiated and represented. This process is shaped primarily by stakeholders- the individuals, groups, organisations, and institutions- who directly and indirectly influence but also are affected by the actions or developmentinterventions of others. Stakeholders include beneficiaries, project or programme staff and management, researchers, local and central government politicians and technical staff, funding agencies, among others. The inclusion of many representatives ofstakeholder groups is the ‘axis’ around which the PM&E process revolves, as people together analyse existing realities and seek points of action.