Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
 Jes Hejböll Larsen & Mads Österbye: Learning to Measure Integrating Learning into the Monitoring & Evaluation Practice of Development Projects Master's Thesis, Aalborg University, Denmark, October 2009 About contradictions in the implemention of development projects: Theoretic rhetoric emphasise bottom-up, learning and adaptability, whereas practice tends toward top-down reporting demands,tighter control, and conditionalities. |
 Esther Mebrahtu: Putting Policy into Practice Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in Ethiopia, INTRAC, UK 2004 A
most inspiring research of
eight international NGOs' attempts to live up to own ideals . The book
is about myth and realities, theory and practice.
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Marisol Estrella et al. (eds.): Learning from
Change
Issues and experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation, Intermediate Technology Publications, London 2000 Reader full of ideas and descriptions of
different methods and techniques.
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The
author argues that Impact
should
denote "lasting, significant changes", and not the relatively
uninteresting immediate effects or "outputs" of a given project.
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Karen McAllister & Ronnie Vernoy: Action
and Reflection: A thorough and "handy" working paper from the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Systematic "Reflection" is seen as vital for M&E. Read here: Action and Reflection see also link to IDRC/CRDI in Miscellaneous
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| Des Gasper:
"Logical Frameworks": Problems and Potentials Unpublished Paper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands 2000 Critical summary of advantages and especially disadvantages of using logframes for planning, monitoring, and evaluation in development work. Read here: Logical Frameworks |
