Participatory monitoring

Participatory M&E
Participatory Environmental Monitoring

Participatory monitoring can refer to (among other uses):

- participatory monitoring of institutions or organisations by their members
- participatory monitoring of projects by their beneficiaries

Both of these are also referred to as participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E). Participatory monitoring can also refer to the distinct, but often overlapping field of:

- to monitoring of the environment by local people using their indigenous knowledge.

In all these cases, there are arguably trade-offs between maximum local participation in defining indicators, and the demands of a monitoring system which needs (or is assumed to need) quantification and standardisation across projects or localities. "Participatory monitoring" is sometimes used loosely for processes which limit the role of local people to data gatherers.

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