Methodological process of developing a peasant planning, monitoring and self-evaluation system through Talking Maps: The MARENASS Case in Peru.Taken from Final Report 1997-2005: Peasant capacity and experiences - replies to motivations.

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 is the case with the development of Talking Maps, a tool used by communities to feed into decision making, organise themselves, deliver and communicate through drawing scenarios as diagrams (depicting the past, present and future) based on territorial maps, which allows finding out graphically participants’ understanding of their territory, strengthening their peasant identity and social capital and regaining a sense of democratic participation in rural areas