Who Counts? : The Power of Participatory Statistics

Jeremy Holland

ISBN 10: 1853397725 / ISBN 13: 9781853397721

Published by Practical Action Publishing Apr 2013, 2013

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Neuware - Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. Statistics are being generated in the design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of development interventions.Through describing policy, programme and project research, Who Counts provides impetus for a step change in the adoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international development practice. The challenge laid down is to foster institutional change on the back of the methodological breakthroughs and philosophical commitment described in this book. The prize is a win-win outcome in which statistics are a part of an empowering process for local people and part of a real-time information flow for those aid agencies and government departments willing to generate statistics in new ways.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Who Counts? : The Power of Participatory Statistics
• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing Apr 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853397725
• ISBN 13: 9781853397721
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 158H x 17D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 158 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 392 grams

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Synopsis

Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes. Statistics are being generated in the design, monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of development interventions.Through describing policy, programme and project research, Who Counts? provides impetus for a step change in the adoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international development practice. The challenge laid down is to foster institutional change on the back of the methodological breakthroughs and philosophical commitment described in this book. The prize is a win–win outcome in which statistics are a part of an empowering process for local people and part of a real-time information flow for those aid agencies and government departments willing to generate statistics in new ways.

About the Authors

Robert Chambers is Research Associate and Emeritus Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and the author of Participatory Workshops (2002) and Ideas for Development (2005).

Jeremy Holland is Lecturer in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales Swansea.