The role of community-driven participatory monitoring and evaluation in empowering communities and improving their decision making: A case study of the kari/ciat collaborative project, coastal kenya.

Abstract

Community-driven participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) offers new ways of promoting learning and change. These processes have emerged as important tools for enhancing the participation of local people in planning, decision making and managing their activities. Local people are involved in the design and implementation of mechanisms for observing, systematizing, analyzing and reflecting on their project activities and goals as a basis for joint decision-making