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International Perspectives on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
(PRIA, 2009-11-25) PRIA
A further influence on the emergence of participatory approaches came from practitioners involved in development work from the 1970s onwards in both the North and South, but principally in the latter. Among them, debates grew about the fact that 'development elites were controlling knowledge production systems, with the result that in social sciences, the status quo was preserved and dependency created among the poor on government and elite sections for the resources, services and knowledge that comprised 'development. As a result, some development practitioners began to realise the importance of indigenous and popular knowledge in framing and delivering more effective development programmes.