Preval | Monitoring and Evaluation for Rural Development

Wednesday September 8, 2010

This section brings together a range of selected materials on key issues facing Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. It includes basic definitions, bibliographical resources and a selection of Good Practice.

Participatory Evaluation

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Good Practice

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Participatory evaluation is an on-going process involving knowledge creation and feedback, as well as results and impact assessment, which is conducted with and by stakeholders by using participatory approaches that create learnings as well as local capacity (PREVAL).

This section will provide information resources as well as useful links and notes on Good Practice in participatory evaluations conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Raising Awareness and Learning in a Participatory Manner: the PROSALAFA Monitoring and Evaluation System, Rosmary González Mariño and Alba Delgado Cuicas, Venezuela.
Since 1990, the Support Project for Small-Scale Producers and Artisanal Fishermen in the Semi-Arid Zones of Falcon and Lara States (PROSALAFA) faced several difficulties, including restrictions, issues, adjustments and change, which finally allowed i...Read more
Monitoring and Evaluation in Peasant Production Systems and how they Link to the Organisational Monitoring and Evaluation System – An Experience for Sharing from the Management of Natural Resources in the Southern Highlands project, Peru
M&E of the MARENASS Project was developed at two – community and organisational – levels, based on the use of Talking Maps. This approach allowed farmers to plan in a more integrated and technologically improved manner, strengthen their peasant ...Read more
The Experience of Educating Young Evaluators… Evaluation, a Joint Walk Together, Evangelina Navía Villegas and Julia Huaylla Serrado, Bolivia.
As part of the Capacity-Building Programme in Evaluation run by the Centre for Studies and Development Promotion (DESCO), the K’ayamanta project implemented a Capacity-Building Plan for Young Evaluators that provided training to 20 young people age...Read more
Reflections on Participatory Approaches in Social Project Evaluation, Silvia Kremenchutzky and Juana Reises, Argentina
From the perspective of the Rural Development Program for the North-Eastern Provinces of Argentina (PRODERNEA), evaluation is a qualitative process involving working and learning on project implementation, where listening to the voice of different st...Read more
Useful Notes on Implementation of Public Consultations as part of the Design of Development Projects, Olga Lucia Molano, Peru
FIDA agreed to conduct public consultations based on UNESCO’s successful experience with the Project for Rehabilitation of the Historic Center of Lima. One learning from this experience is that there is no need to start with a needs assessment, an...Read more

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