Table of Contents

Foreword Brian Pratt Acknowledgements Introduction Lucy Earle Section One Chapter 1 An Investigation into the Reality behind NGO Rhetoric of Downward Accountability Tina Wallace and Jennifer Chapman Chapter 2 Measuring the Development of Capacity: Is this Still a Good Idea? Peter Morgan Chapter 3 Rights, Culture and Contested Modernities David Marsden Chapter 4 Representing, Translating or Constructing? Reporting on HIV/AIDS Projects Sadhvi Dar Section Two Chapter 5 Measurement in Development Practice: From the Mundane to the Transformational James Taylor and Sue Soal Chapter 6 Whose Dreams? Whose Voices? - Involving Children in Project Management Yedla Padmavathi Chapter 7 Doing Away With Predetermined Indicators: Monitoring using the Most Significant Changes Approach Peter Sigsgaard Chapter 8 Transforming Practice in ActionAid: Experiences and Challenges in Rethinking Learning, Monitoring and Accountability Systems Jennifer Chapman, Rosalind David and Antonella Mancini Afterword Brian Pratt Bibliography Appendix A Review of INTRAC's International Conferences on the Evaluation of Social Development List of Conference Participants

About the Author

Lucy Earle is a Researcher at the International NGO Training and Research Centre, Oxford.