This is Silvia Andrea Perez, Wageningen University, again (previous message 7). I agree with Justus Kavoi (Message 45) that it is important that participation from different stakeholders takes place in the process of impact assessment. I would like to add that the participatory monitoring and evaluation should be done even over time, during the process, going beyond a static pre and post assessment with very predefined plans and goals. There might be opportunities to change and even innovate in the process of a project, so that these also need to be monitored, tracking the events when stakeholders adjust their actions plans. I called this Monitoring, Evaluation and Change (M&E&C), which implies that certain flexibility should be allowed. Good record keeping is crucial over the process, and the longitudinal reports can be used together with the baseline and endline data to make the final impact evaluation of a project. See the poster I prepared entitled "Tracking the social organisation of innovation: Tracking Mobile Hubs of innovation networks tackling societal challenges" at http://www.academia.edu/5950791/Tracking_the_social_organisation_of_innovation_Tracking_Mobile_Hubs_of_innovation_networks_tackling_societal_challenges Silvia Andrea Perez Perdomo Hollandseweg 1 Building 201 Office number 5057 P.O. Box 8130 Wageningen University 6700 EW Wageningen, The Netherlands e-mail: silvia.perezperdomo (at) wur.nl [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information, see http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/217706/ ]. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Impact-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=Impact-L&A=1