People's Participation in Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Programmes: Concepts and Approaches

This paper examines two methods used to elicit the participation of rural people ("stakeholders") in the monitoring and evaluation of development programs: the Stakeholder based evaluation (SBE), and the participatory assessment monitoring and evaluation (PAME). The difference is in the degree and stage of the involvement of stakeholders. The SBE pertains to a larger perspective where all possible stakeholders are identified and involved; the PAME involves mostly the direct and indirect beneficiaries of a program.