Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Participatory Poverty Assessment	Most Significant Change for Development
Πεδίο	Development Studies	Development Studies
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2000	2005
Δημιουργός	World Bank (Deepa Narayan; Caroline Robb); building on Robert Chambers's participatory tradition	Rick Davies & Jess Dart
Τύπος	Participatory qualitative poverty analysis method	Participatory, story-based monitoring and evaluation technique
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	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.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	PPA, Participatory Poverty Study, Voices of the Poor Method, Participatory Poverty Diagnosis	MSC technique, Story-based monitoring, Most significant change stories, Monitoring without indicators
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	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.