Participatory Evaluation of Development Interventions in a Vulnerable African Environment

Many vulnerable areas in the world have experienced a multitude of external interventions to ‘assist development’, ‘decrease vulnerability’ or ‘change people’s culture and institutions’. There have been many project-specific evaluations of those interventions, but hardly any coherent multi-intervention evaluations. And despite the use of the word ‘participatory’ in many current development programmes, evaluations are often top-down ‘professional’ activities, and not at all participatory.