Training Workshop On Participatory Planning and Monitoring

Abstract

Planning of projects and monitoring of activities have long been considered important to ensure that resources available to development organizations are well spent and that objectives are met. Planning and Monitoring are also seen as tools for accountability to funding agencies, other organizations, and also for internal learning. However the planning of programs and monitoring of activities has till recently remained the domain of the development practitioner -often an outsider. The role of the community has been limited to that of recipient of a service and provider of data. Rarely did the community find itself in the position of being a partner in the process. A common outcome the, was that projects did not, very often meet their stated objectives.