The purpose of the IVSA is to promote the study, production, and use of visual images, data, and materials in teaching, research, and applied activities, and to foster the development and use of still photographs, film, video, and electronically transmitted images in sociology and other social sciences and related disciplines and applications.
GKP is a network of organisations interested in innovation promotion and advancement in knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies for development. GKP brings together the public and private sector and civil organisations with the goal of sharing knowledge and ICTs for development.
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a global network of networks whose mission is to empower and support organisations, social movements and individuals in and through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
The programme ‘Development of Opportunities for Investment and Capitalisation of Assets in Rural Micro-Enterprises – Job Opportunities’ has as main focus of its M&E sub-system a participatory M&E approach involving users in a group discussion on planned and implemented actions, as well as their changes and achievements. Within this framework, Monitoring Committees are formed whose work is based on their own participation culture.
The Management of Natural Resources in the Southern Highlands project (MARENASS) has developed participatory monitoring and evaluation (M&E) methodologies that build on peasant planning and self-evaluation practices, which allows developing proposals and reaching collective, democratic agreements.
This document is a novel publication as it fills a void in literature on the issue in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reproduces successful, innovative experiences where and Image-Based Monitoring and Evaluation approach was used as an opportunity to display creativity and simplicity in the use of their different techniques, which made a significant difference in the effectiveness of M&E systems.
Image-Based Monitoring and Evaluation uses audio-visual language to provide evidence of change as a result of a development intervention, based on the combined use of a range of communication media and forms, including video, photography, geo-referenced information systems, mapping and talking maps.
In July 2007, the People with Value project, run by the Brazilian government, started developing their M&E system. However, several issues prevented the M&E system from working effectively as well as an evaluation culture from developing. Within th...Read more
PRODAP 2 took part in an Intensive Programme on Monitoring and Evaluation (PRISE), sponsored by PREVAL and RUTA in 2002 to facilitate institutionalisation of monitoring and evaluation within the project. With the direction provided by this training,...Read more
From 2001 to 2005, IFAD’s regional programme Rural Uruguay made the experience of implementing and managing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Systematisation Unit (M&E Unit). As part of this process a number of lessons learned were developed, and proje...Read more
The Emerging Learning technique may be seen as part of an approach that seeks to build the learning capacity of organisations. Its starting point is identifying guiding questions to guide the reflection process; once these have been prioritised, repl...Read more
Since 2003, the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IADB) Inter-American Institute for Social Development (in Spanish, INDES) has been implementing an initiative to encourage the study of good social management practice in the region. To this end, ...Read more
