Satyamurthi, V.Oakely, Peter2025-04-142025-04-141997-08-20Satyamurthi, V, Oakely, Peter. (1997). Participatory Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/379Social programmes aim to enhance quality of life by improving citizens' ability to engage in social, economic, and political activities. These programmes often target health, education, income generation, and community empowerment. However, many fail to achieve long-term impact due to poor sustainability and limited evaluation. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is essential but often lacks the tools to assess participation effectively. Evaluating participation remains a developing area with ongoing methodological challenges."Social Programmes" are programmes designed to improve the quality of life by improving the capacity of citizens to participate fully in social, economic and political activities at the local or national level programmes. They may focus on improving physical well being and access to services, protecting vulnerable groups from adverse consequences of economic reform and structural adjustment or providing education literacy, employment and income generating opportunities. They may focus directly on local empowerment and equip in issues by strengthening community organisations, encouraging to participate in development or alleviating poverty. Significant number of these programmes fail to fully achieve their objectives. Little is known how well programmes are able to sustain and even less about the extent to which programmes are able to produce their intended impacts.enEvaluation of participationPoverty alleviationStructural adjustmentSocial programmesBeneficiary communitiesWorking Paper