Methoden vergleichen

	Participatory Poverty Assessment	Most Significant Change for Development
Fachgebiet	Development Studies	Development Studies
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2000	2005
Urheber	World Bank (Deepa Narayan; Caroline Robb); building on Robert Chambers's participatory tradition	Rick Davies & Jess Dart
Typ	Participatory qualitative poverty analysis method	Participatory, story-based monitoring and evaluation technique
Wegweisende Quelle	Narayan, D., Patel, R., Schafft, K., Rademacher, A., & Koch-Schulte, S. (2000). Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank. ISBN: 9780195216011	Davies, R., & Dart, J. (2005). The 'Most Significant Change' (MSC) Technique: A Guide to Its Use. CARE International, Oxfam, et al.
Aliasnamen	PPA, Participatory Poverty Study, Voices of the Poor Method, Participatory Poverty Diagnosis	MSC technique, Story-based monitoring, Most significant change stories, Monitoring without indicators
Verwandt	4	4
Zusammenfassung	A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) is an instrument for understanding poverty from the perspective of poor people themselves, using participatory methods to elicit their own definitions, experiences, and priorities rather than imposing externally fixed indicators. Pioneered by the World Bank in the 1990s and made famous by the multi-country 'Voices of the Poor' study, the PPA combines participatory rural appraisal tools with a deliberate concern to influence policy, complementing rather than replacing the quantitative household surveys on which official poverty measurement rests.	The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique is a participatory, story-based approach to monitoring and evaluating development programmes that dispenses with predefined indicators. Developed by Rick Davies and elaborated with Jess Dart in their widely used 2005 guide, it works by systematically collecting stories of significant change from those closest to a programme and then filtering and selecting the most significant of them through deliberative panels at successive levels of the organisational hierarchy. The result is a structured, dialogical account of what stakeholders themselves judge to be the most important outcomes of an intervention.