Buxton, Charles2025-04-102025-04-102004-11Buxton, Charles. (2011). Who Benefits- The Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes in Central Asia, INTRAC.http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/334The INTRAC Central Asia Programme (ICAP) focused on enhancing local NGOs' capacity in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), particularly through participatory and qualitative methods. Its conference theme "Who Benefits?" reflected this commitment. Alongside M&E, ICAP also addressed poverty and civil society’s role in development across countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. With support from DFID and the World Bank, ICAP engaged in policy strategies and grassroots responses. Special emphasis was placed on rural development, local governance, and the challenges of post-Soviet economic decline.The theme of the conference "Who Benefits?: The Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes in Central Asia' was chosen to reflect and promote a key component of INTRAC's Central Asia Programme (ICAP): monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In early 2003, ICAP had already begun in earnest its work to train local NGOs. across the region in M&E skills, with a particular emphasis on qualitative approaches to measurement, and we had piloted our own programme-wide participatory evaluation methodology. This project had led to the creation of three country-based working groups in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan who were beginning to define their own training needs as well as to work out how they should beet assess ICAP's work.enPoverty ReductionCivil SocietyRural DevelopmentMahalla (local governance)NGO Mapping ReportsTechnical Report