Title: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for Shared Learning
1Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for
Shared Learning Action
- Patti Petesch
- Consultant
- Poverty Reduction Group
- World Bank
- November 11, 2003
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2What is PME?
- A process of collaborative problem solving that
involves stakeholders at various levels in
sharing control over data gathering and analysis
and in taking corrective action.
3But Why Participatory ME?
- It is the mayor who decides. When he does not
like somebody there is no social assistance for
them. - A poor woman from Razgrad, Bulgaria
- They give only to the haves while we, the
have-nots, do not receive anything. - A Roma from Etropole, Bulgaria
4 PME Planning Cycle
adapted from Gaventa/ McGee
5adapted from IDS/ PME Learning from Change
6Step 1 in PME Planning Who Participates?
- The poor
- Poor peoples membership groups community
groups, religious leaders, trade unions, farmers
unions, traditional authorities - The Non-poor
- Politicians and political parties at various
levels of government - Central and local government service providers
- Advocacy, development research and field-based
NGOs - The press and broadcast media
- Donor agencies
7Step 2 in PME Planning Who Identifies Goals
Indicators?
- Poor Peoples IndicatorsCriteria Order of
Importance - Responsable 1
- Has the necessary resources 2
- Does not discriminate 3
- Provides good respectful service 4
- Professional staff 4
- Caring director
4 - Voices of the Poor From Many Lands
8Step 3 in PME Planning Data Collection
Analysis
- Good Practices in Research Design
- Mixed Methods
- Quantitative, Qualitative and Participatory
- Triangulation
- Use at least two data collection tools to monitor
key hypotheses and indicators
9Step 3 (continued) Benefits of Participatory
Tools
- Reveal the unexpected
- Uncover processes that keep people poor or help
them escape poverty - Dynamics of social and institutional relations
- Sources of risk and vulnerability coping
mechanisms - Build local capacity for shared learning and
action
10Learning from Poor People
114. Disseminate and Act on Results
- Transparency and Accountability
- Public Access to Data
- Performance-Based Budgets and Personnel Policies
12Designing for Follow-up Action Vietnam VOP
- Credit access for unregistered migrants
- Policy changes in the making
- Studying constraints to the development of the
off-farm sector in Tra Vinh - Developing action plan to reduce marginalization
of ethnic minorities in upland areas - Re-evaluating Health care and education fees
- Using VOP approach to formulate gender strategy
- Government requested donor support to mainstream
participatory techniques
13Building Channels for Transparency and
Accountability
- Following the Money and Improving Service
Delivery - Uganda Expenditure Tracking Study
- Porto Alegre Participatory Budgeting
- Philippines Citizens Report Cards
14But Why Participatory ME?
- We are afraid of those on the top. The people
cannot gather together to put them in their
place. There are some young ones who wanted to
make a debate with the mayor on the local TV
they announced that everybody could ask him
questions and what happened? He asked them not to
interrupt him when he was speaking, they cut the
telephone lines, he delivered a speech, and he
went home. - -- A man from Etropole, Bulgaria
15Principles for Participation in ME
- Empower poor people and include stakeholders at
all levels - Build local capacity for analysis and problem
solving - Catalyze commitment to taking corrective actions
16Small Group Activity
- The Program Outcome Model
- A tool for building an analytic framework for
Monitoring Evaluation
17Indicators Types
18Indicators Types
19Indicators Types