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Item Participatory Impact Assessment(2001-01) Dwivedi, AnjuThe words like Impact, Monitoring and Evaluations have been in the development discourse for more than one decade now. As NGOs continue to play important role in development, such words attain greater meaning. There has been increasing concern about NGOs' performance in social development. The questions like how does one know what has happened in public good, how one can measure the process of change, is it easy to trace the pace of transformation etc. have confounded many NGOs. The evaluations of the projects and programmes when taken up demonstrate the achievements in particular fields, and such interventions are largely seen as 'donor driven'. Most NGOs feel forced to take up evaluations not because these were considered important for institutional learning but the next instalments and future course of funding largely depended on evaluations. Generally the words like monitoring, evaluations and impacts are used interchangeably, in reality and practice all three are related but have different meanings. Before untangling the threads of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, it is necessary to understand their relationships with social development.Item Lesson Learning, Monitoring, Impact Assessment and Evaluation(1996-03)This paper outlines UPO aims and achievements in 1996 to improve its own (and other stakeholders') ability to learn about the performance and impact of the projects. Marginal improvements in systematic routine monitoring are evident from this year's project reports; more significant initiatives have been taken to assess outputs and impact (the IAS of three SIPs, Calcutta SIP PALM studies, participatory committees in Chinagadili, and initial work in Cochin). On the basis of this work, key lessons are listed.Item Framework of the Study - Global Civil Society(1993-03) Tandon, RajeshThis brief note intends to elaborate some key issues which should be addressed in the study of the global movement. citizens The framework of the study must start by recognising the Independent and autonomous existence of Civil Society. All Citizen initiatives and voluntary action (including NGO initiatives) should be seen as rooted in Civil Society and intended. to strengthen its capacity to interact with the State and institutions, on the one hand, and the Worked and its mechanisms, on the other. Thus the conceptual framework of the study should be a departure from the previous models of Development which either give primacy to the State and its agencies or to the Market and its mechanisms. Viewed in this sense, then initiatives and institutions of the Civil Society need to be understood and acknowledged. The study should be an attempt to record and analyse the range of such initiatives currently and historically undertaken in different socio-political contexts. The study should also In attempt to analyse the impact of these initiatives.Item Involving Communities in Planning and Assessing the Impacts of Development Programmes(New Zealand Agency for International Development/Voluntary Agencies Support Scheme (VASS), 2003-06-23) Quinn, Marion; Clark, KevinDuring 2001/02 six New Zealand NGOs and eight of their partners in South Asia or the Pacific were involved in a Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) pilot programme initiated and supported by the Voluntary Agency Support Scheme (VASS) of the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). The PIA pilot programme aimed to build understanding of the philosophical and methodological approaches to PIA for all involved through workshops and practical experience (ie undertaking a participatory impact assessment of a project). At a workshop at the end of the Pacific phase of the pilot programme in Nadi in August 2002, the need for capacity building in the area of participatory approaches to development in a Pacific context was raised. It was suggested that it would be useful to share the lessons learnt from the PIA pilot programme with other Pacific NGOs. The VASS PSC and NZAID agreed to provide the funds to bring a number of Pacific NGOs that were supported by New Zealand NGOs or NZAID to such a workshop.