Facilitating tribal farmers to identify change
Evaluation has a prominent presence in agricultural development projects in lower income countries. However, this evaluation culture has its own norms and definitions, which appear to have developed independently from the world of ‘Program Evaluation’. There is a strong focus on the use of logical frameworks, and an increasing tendency towards participatory process project design (Farrington & Nelson, 1997). The author of this paper worked as an internal evaluator on behalf of the KRIBP project in tribal villages during 1996 and 1997. During this work the method of ‘participatory farming systems models’ was developed to facilitate farmers to articulate their own indicators of change to their farming systems. Read full article here…
