Who Are the Question-makers?: A Participatory Evaluation Handbook

Provides the information needed, and helps to develop the sensitivity and skills required, to support evaluations that place greater emphasis on stakeholder participation in the evaluation process.

Parts one to four, which present an overview of the participatory evaluation approach, include:

• a brief description of the evolution of the participatory approach
• a comparison of participatory evaluation with more conventional evaluation approaches
• a discussion of the role of participation in UNDP
• a description of the framework of a participatory evaluation and a discussion of some of the practical issues involved in doing such an evaluation

Part five consists of a stand-alone package developed around the case study "Money and Mambas". It describes an attempt at undertaking a participatory evaluation of a rural water supply and sanitation project and focuses on the practical aspects of applying participatory evaluation techniques:

• Pre-planning, including negotiation of the TOR, assessing the participatory evaluation context and identifying enabling and inhibiting factors surrounding that context
• Collaborative planning with stakeholders
• Data-gathering and analysis
• Reflection and follow-up.

This case study is presented as a training module which can be the subject of a mini­workshop to introduce staff to the practice of participatory evaluation. We suggest that this exercise can be accomplished within 3 to 4 hours.

A glossary of basic terms, examples of some of the basic tools that can be used in participatory evaluations as well as lists of manuals and resource persons, groups and institutions are presented in the annexes. [author]