This paper is centered in reflecting about the potential of applying the Theory of change as a useful tool in participatory monitoring and self-evaluation in the LLS context.
Five months after start up of PRODAP II, and having recruited its full staff of professionals, as a coincidence implementation was also initiated of an Intensive Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (in Spanish, PRISE) supported by the PREVAL II and RUTA regional programmes.
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation systems (PM&E) are data-collection and use processes providing evidence of change, with the aim to gear strategies toward expected impact.Generally, these systems are needed to develop and assess public policy, projects and programmes, promote accountability, help budgetary decision making and impr
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
PREVAL is a programme specialising in capacity building in evaluation for rural development, with a focus on social learning. It disseminates good practices and tools to make these available to the community of evaluators and anti-poverty projects in rural areas. Has a bilingual web page Spanish and English
