Participatory evaluation approaches integrate stakeholders’ perspectives from various communities, involving them in every step of the evaluation process from design and measurement to data collection and analysis. The process of involving stakeholders in evaluation work is particularly important when striving for contextually relevant outcomes and in order to implement assessment procedures that respect local traditions, customs, and productions of knowledge. Underlying the participatory approach is the aim to shift traditional power relations between the researcher and researched for the purposes of transformative social change. 

This section shares a variety of examples, including an overview of participatory M&E approaches (Who Counts Reality?) as well as three different adaptations:

• Listen First's Public and Stakeholder Accountability Frameworks
• Most Significant Change
• Action Aid Accountability, Learning, and Planning System (ALPS)