Roche, C.

A two-day workshop was held at ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and research in Development) to introduce staff to PRA through an appraisal of their own work and organizational relationships. The aim of the workshop was to increase awareness about PRA among staff and to enable them to make informed decisions about how it could be used in ACORD programmes. It was also intended that the workshop would feed into the organization's strategic planning process.

In this article the author describes the experience of an international NGO [ACCORD] in its attempt to develop, with community groups, a process known as "auto-evaluation" - which aims to establish project objectives that are consistent with both community and agency criteria, and to evaluate their achievement against "community-determined indicators".