Measuring Project Impact: Monitoring and Evaluation in the PIDER Rural Development Project-Mexico

摘要

The Mexican nationwide program for rural development - PIDER - one of the largest of its kind in the world, has developed a system for monitoring its implementation and for ongoing evaluation of its impact. The strengths and weaknesses of this system's experience are analyzed in this case study. PIDER's concern for the sociology of rural development resulted, inter alia, in significant efforts for eliciting grassroot community participation in development planning. Systematic guidelines for promoting such participation, as proposed by the Research Center for Rural Development (CIDER) under the PIDER program, are presented in detail in the study.