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Donor participatory governance evaluation: initial trends, implications, opportunities, constraints
Author(s) -
Kapoor Ilan
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1057
Subject(s) - citizen journalism , corporate governance , politics , power (physics) , participatory evaluation , political science , public administration , participatory development , good governance , quality (philosophy) , sociology , economics , management , law , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
The article examines the current trend within international development agencies towards adopting participatory approaches to governance evaluation (GE). It argues that, while this trend is to be welcomed, there are important political, institutional and methodological implications and constraints worth considering. Donors appear not to have addressed as yet such questions as the institutional changes required for participatory GEs to be meaningful, the relationship between conventional and participatory GEs, issues of quality and power in participatory GEs, and relationships to broader governance structures in developing countries. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.