People working together around the world to generate ideas and action for social change
Donor information demands and NGO institutional development.
Lesson learning : how will we recognise it when we bump into it?
Beyond wealth ranking : the democratic definition and measurement of poverty.
This paper describes a method for measuring poverty which combines features of wealth or well-being ranking with a survey.
Guidance notes on increasing the participation of the poor in the assessment of the impact of development interventions.
These notes examine the justificaion for the involvement of primary stakeholders in impact assessment and how efforts to do so can be assessed and finally how this can be done.
Hierarchical card sorting : a tool for qualitative research.
This paper describes the use of hierarchical card sorting for investigating how the staff of certain NGOs see the world around them, including their intended beneficiaries and other NGOs.
Tree maps : a tool for structuring, exploring and summarising qualitative information.
Note describing a method to explore the distinctions or differences that people see in the world around them. Tree maps can be used to deal with two common problems encountered when dealing with qualitative information. Firstly, how to make comparisons between complex entities and secondly, how to see an overall order but also recognise local diversity at the same time.
Participatory impact assessment : a report on a DFID funded ActionAid research project on methods and indicators for measuring the impact of poverty reduction.
Review of the background, methodology and key findings of an applied three year research project designed to find more reliable participatory impact approaches and locally relevant indicators of change. Different methods for the assessment of impact were tried out with a wide range of communities and local organisations that ActionAid had previous direct contact with.
An evolutionary approach to facilitating organisational learning : an experiment by the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CDDB).
In 1994 an experiment on participatory monitoring was carried out with CCDBÆs PPRDP programme. CCDB is a medium sized Bangladeshi NGO that provides development assistance primarily geared towards women. The purpose of the experiment was to explore more innovative approaches to project monitoring away from more conventional approaches that emphasise the use of indicators. The experiment hoped to establish a more æiteratedÆ process or evolutionary approach to project evaluation.