Participatory Impact Assessment as a Tool for Change: Lessons from Recent Experience in Poverty Alleviation Projects in Africa
This document is a conference paper that was presented at a Panel Session on PIA (participatory impact assessment) in Vancouver. The paper focuses on an attempt to use a participatory impact assessment process to foster village level capacity building in poverty alleviation programmes. The paper concentrates on the process by which an evaluation exercise was used as an integral part of the development intervention activity whilst fulfilling the primary objective of assessing impacts.