Between Power and Perception: Understanding youth perspectives in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Ghana
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2019-07
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Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) approaches have been touted as an important concept for local
participation in social interventions programmes. Utilizing a process analysis approaches, the PM&E data
gathered through key informant interviews, formal surveys, and policy frameworks were analyzed. The study
revealed three dominant power struggles between youth and programme implementers in three districts at the
Greater Accra region, Ghana. The first and pervasive form of power dynamics involves the youth and programme
implementers. The second involves a variety of arrangements with the government on one hand and implementers
and youth on the other side. The third is who qualifies to be a beneficiary and for that matter
participate in the PM&E. In these three forms of power struggles the paper reveals superior implementers control
of who participate in the programme PM&E and at what stage in the process. The power imbalance between
programme implementer and target beneficiaries impeded the level of beneficiaries’ participation in the PM&E.
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Evaluation, Implementation, Participatory, Monitoring, Stakeholders, Youth
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Boadu ES, Ile I. Between power and perception: Understanding youth perspectives in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Ghana. Eval Program Plann. 2019 Dec;77:101683. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101683