ABSTRACT
The floor discussion centered on the capacity of both donor agencies and client countries to carry out participatory evaluation. One participant noted that although much had been done at the Bank to make project preparation and implementation more participatory, little had been done to make monitoring and feedback to decision makers more participatory during implementation. Another participant wanted to know what process could be used to build participatory monitoring and evaluation systems. Rolf Sartorius responded that there were two reasons why project monitoring and evaluation systems were not really being implemented by institutions that otherwise generally pay attention to participation. First, project officers get few rewards for devoting extra time and attention to designing participatory monitoring and evaluation systems with stakeholders during project appraisal. Second, many development institutions lack the skills to do more participatory design, although they may be gaining experience in it.
