The vision behind community forestry is to ensure the sustainability of local forests, by engaging the local communities who depend on these resources. Community forestry is practiced widely across the globe, with varying degrees of success. This study focuses on alternative approaches and tools used to evaluate project performance (in terms of sustainability) and increase participation at the ...

It is widely believed that Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) can help community organisations improve their internal learning and governance. However, the processes of programme monitoring and evaluation as practised by many organisations lack the elements of community participation and ownership and the appreciation of its contribution to community learning. Wider less...

The proliferation of sensors in devices of frequent use, such as mobile phones, offers unprecedented opportunities for forming selfselected communities around shared sensory data pools that enable community specific applications of mutual interest. Such applications have recently been termed participatory sensing . An important category of participatory sensing applications is one that construc...

Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) is a new survey method which elicits citizens' preferences over the allocation of public budgets as well their private income. In PVE, citizens are asked to choose best portfolio projects given governmental and budget constraint. First, this paper aligns PVE with traditional Kaldor-Hicks welfare economics framework underlying many Cost-Benefit Analyses. Seco...