Designing Methodologies for Participatory Monitoring and Impact Assessment of CSIP's Intervensions on Different Verifiable Indicators

Abstract

This report is a detailed document of the consultation, field testing and fine tunning of the various participatory impact assessment methodologies developed by the core group of specialists of Community Development, Health and Engineering sectors of the Calcutta Slum Improvement Project, Calcutta, under the guidance of Kamal Kar, ODA Consultant. During July 1996 an ODA consultancy mission reviewed the output and impact monitoring arrangements of C. S. I. P. and also assessed the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of present monitoring system. This study is basically a follow-up to that, particularly in strengthening the impact assessment approaches more from the standpoint of end-users of the project in as much participatory way as possible. Under this study efforts have been made to investigate in detail each of the purpose and output level verifiable indicators (as mentioned in the Logical Frame work of the project), in full participation of the slum dwellers.