ABSTRACT
An evaluation component could be built into the total process of project implementation through the use of Participatory Action Research. This chapter discusses how Participatory evaluation has been used, especially in women’s projects, the pros and cons and some of the prerequisites for its use, and how it could be done better. To evaluate the women’s component in Finnish aid to Tanzanian agriculture through the Uyole Agricultural Centre, Traute Stude carried out empirical research for a little over two months in Uyole, for one month with a Tanzanian counterpart. The recognition of the real significance of the so-called women’s issue becomes only slowly converted to resource allocations for the lines of production and social caring services in which women play a central role. The obligatory inclusion of the women’s question in all project planning and evaluation has also led to its being included in a purely nominal way.
