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Community Monitoring and SHG Efficacy: Identification of Pathways
and Mechanisms

Satyendra C. Pandey, Vivek Pandey, Shyam Singh

2021

Community-Driven Development (CDD) interventions face the challenge of effective second  and third-party monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes. The M&E team is often viewed  unfavourably by programme participants and implementors. They are viewed as: (a) foreign  to the development process and (b) less likely to record and communicate the real picture at  the ground level due to a trust gap. Furthermore, external agencies and program partners are  frequently motivated by evaluationalist ideology and optimism rather than realistic analysis and a desire to effect genuine change. According to the literature, community participation in  the M&E process could lead to: (a) increased monitor engagement with the programme, (b)  identification of course-correction strategies, and eventually (c) enhanced long-run  programme welfare outcomes. We study the design and develop a Theory of Change (ToC)  of the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) for the NRLM self-help groups  (SHGs) in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Keywords:

Community Based Monitoring System; Monitoring and Evaluation; Theory of Change; India

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