Dinbabo, MulugetaMekonnen, Endale Sebsebe2023-02-162024-11-112023-02-162024-11-112023https://hdl.handle.net/10566/19591Philosophiae Doctor - PhDFor the success of development programs at any level, the process of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plays an indispensable role. Although it has been exercised for decades in different contexts, its multidisciplinary features and variegated applications made it a complex enterprise. The complexity is due to multidisciplinary nature, differing methodological, philosophical stance and theoretical assumptions The two approaches—conventional and participatory monitoring and evaluation—said to be diametrically opposite in their epistemological, methodological stance, and practices resulting in meeting different purposes. A great deal of study has been done in the area of identifying the weaknesses of both approaches, but there has been no study about the possibility of combining the determinants of these two approaches, to craft a better approach that responds to differing needs of stakeholders at different stages of the monitoring and evaluation process. This dissertation undertook to fill this gap.enDevelopment programsWorld Vision Ethiopia (WVE)Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)EthiopiaUniversity of the Western Cape