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NEW DIRECTIONS IN IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT: METHODS AND PRACTICE

Linda Mayoux, WISE

Grassroots Action Learning: Impact Assessment for Downward Accountability and Civil Society Development

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ABSTRACT

This paper discusses how a critical ‘missing dimension’ of current participatory assessment processes can be addressed - how people, including the very poor, can be facilitated to collect the information which they themselves need, in ways useful to them as the basis for truly participatory development and strengthening of civil society.

Part 1 of the paper gives an overview of existing innovative approaches to grassroots action learning which can be built on.

Parts 2, 3 and 4 then look at methods and tools which can be used for setting up grassroots information systems, ensuring greater inclusion of the very poor in the ‘participatory’ process, and feeding the information into collective action, lobbying and advocacy.

The final Part 5 then looks at the issues which will need to be addressed by external agencies in supporting and building on such a system for their own information needs.

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