Asia Pacific Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop - Next Generation Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

Abstract

Monitoring and Evaluation has become a buzzword and common practice in development programs throughout the world. There has also evolved, over the last couple of decades, specialized expertise, institutions and a body of knowledge in support of monitoring and evaluation. However, much of this monitoring and evaluation practice and theory continues to be utilized in a manner that is very similar to top-down models of development, which are currently being replaced by bottom-up participatory strategies. The ideas, principles and theory propounded primarily by the civil society organizations not only based on the critique of traditional evaluation approaches but also based on what seemed relevant and appropriate to promote conscientisation and liberalization of the poor and marginalized in a given concrete situation.