Participatory Evaluation: Issues and Concerns

Abstract

The growth of human civilization has implied human reflection through-out its history. As human beings, individually and collectively, confronted nature for their basic survival in the early days, they also began to reflect on their experience in order to improve ways and means of finding food for survival. This process of reflection is what has now come to be known as 'evaluation'. Thus, evaluation is an integral process of human develop-ment and existence. All of us engage in evaluation of our day's work, of the different stages in our life, of our accomplishments, of our failures, as well as, an evaluation of others and their accomplishments. Thus the process of evaluation is integral to human thinking, reflection and daily existence.