ABSTRACT
Evaluators facilitate stakeholder participation during each stage of the evaluation process, from designing the evaluation system through implementing and testing it to training and building the capacity to ensure that the stakeholders can own and manage the system. M. Feuerstein and J. Pretty and others distinguish among various kinds of evaluation by the extent to which local evaluation stakeholders influence decisions about evaluation processes and the degree to which evaluation activities build local capacity for learning and collective action. Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) offers development organizations a host of opportunities to improve the performance of poverty alleviation programs and to build the management capacity of local partners. Responsibility for PME is shared within a group of project and partner organization staff. The team comprises key PME stakeholders—people who are committed to PME and who are willing to take responsibility for it. The PME facilitator works with the stakeholders to fill the worksheet with elements important to them.
