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Approaches to Monitoring Changes in Livelihoods
(Rick Davies: CDS Swansea) 3 August 2000
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make use of non- indicator based methods of monitoring changes in livelihoods,
or who is interested in doing so.
A brief explanation:
Indicators, as found in most logical frameworks, are about
* Changes that are expected
* Changes that are of agreed significance
However, many of the most interesting things we read about in daily newspapers
do not fall into either category. It is the unexpected and the contested which
is often the most interesting, and which often has significance for the future.
The same applies for much of what goes on in development projects.
There are two sources of information about monitoring-without indicators
approaches that may be relevant to monitoring changes in sustainable
livelihoods:
1. "Target 10 Evaluation Stories". May 1998 - May 1999 Compiled by
Jessica Dart, for the Department of Natural Resources and Environment,
Melbourne, Australia. Email Mark.Walton@nre.vic.gov.au
2. "An evolutionary approach to organisational learning: An experiment by
an NGO in Bangladesh", by Rick Davies, Chapter 4 in "Development as
Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity". Edited by
David Mosse, John Farrington and Alan Rew. Routledge. London 1998 See also
http://www.swan.ac.uk/cds/rd/ccdb.htm
More recently, the DFID-funded Mt Cameroon Project has begun to use the same
"news story" approach in its monthly and six monthly monitoring of
changes in organisational capacity, livelihoods and biodiversity. The contact
person for further information is Fiona Percy, Social Development Adviser, Mt
Cameroon Project Email FionaPercy@aol.com
VSO is also in the process of implementing the same system on a global basis,
as a means of monitoring the impact of volunteer placements, as part of its
Partnership agreement with DFID. The contact person there is Jo Rowlands Email
jrowland@vso.org.uk
Rick Davies (Dr)
Social Development Consultant and Research Fellow
Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales - Swansea
Email: rick@shimbir.demon.co.uk
Home phone: 44 (0)1223 841367 (Cambridge)
Home fax: 44 (0)8701 640239
http://www.swan.ac.uk/cds/rd/rd1.htm
http://www.mande.co.uk/news.htm
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