Inter-Regional project for participatory upland conservation and development (Field Document 3) - Bolivia, Burundi, Nepal, Pakistan and Tunisia. A Review of project practice in planning, monitoring and evaluation - Learning from experience













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Inter-regional Project for Participatory Upland Conservation and Development - GCP/INT/542/ITA

Bolivia, Burundi, Nepal, Pakistan and Tunisia

Coordination Unit

Prepared by

Patrizio Warren - Consultant in Monitoring & Evaluation and Participatory Methods

April 1998

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

Executive summary

Introduction

Background and rationale of the study
Objectives of the study
Methodology
This report

Chapter 1 - Design and implementation of the PUCD project's PME systems

1.1. General framework of the PME systems
1.2. Bolivia
1.3. Nepal
1.4. Pakistan
1.5 Tunisia

Chapter 2 - NFTS' And communities' self-assessment of the PUCD project's PME practice

2.1. Bolivia

2.1.a. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of project-level PME
2.1.b. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of community-level PME
2.1.c. Participants' views on community-level PME
2.1.d Project management's views on the adaptation of the overall PME system to the local social and institutional environment

2.2. Nepal

2.2.a. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of project-level PME
2.2.b. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of community-level PME
2.2.c. Participants' views on community-level PME
2.2.d. Project management's views on the adaptation of the overall PME system to the local social and institutional environment

2.3. Pakistan

2.3.a. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of project-level PME
2.3.b. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of community-level PME
2.3.c. Participants' views on community-level PME
2.3.d. Project management's views on the adaptation of the overall PME system to the local social and institutional environment

2.4. Tunisia

2.4.a. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of project-level PME
2.4.b. NFT's assessment of the performance and usefulness of community-level PME
2.4.c. Participants' views on community-level PME
2.4.d. Project management's' views on the adaptation of the overall PME system to the local social and institutional environment

Chapter 3 - PUCD project's PME practice: common problems and recommendations

3.1. Project-level PME

3.1.a. Over-planning
3.1.b. Relevance and appropriateness of time-allocation indicators
3.1.c. Focus of evaluation practice
3.1.d. Skills and attitudes of field staff
3.1.e. Analysis and use of M&E information.

3.2. Community-level PME

3.2.a. Availability of participatory PME expertise within the NFTs
3.2.b. Time requirements for community-level PME practice
3.2.c. Transfer of community-level PME skills to interest groups and grassroots organizations

Annex I Project management's quantitative assessment of project-level and community-Level PME practice

Annex - References Consulted

Publications
Coordination unit
Bolivia
Nepal
Pakistan
Tunisia