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Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation incorporates the examples and innovative M&E solutions from an enormous range of countries, circumstances and specialisms. Emphasising Southern perspectives and covering a variety of experiences, it stresses the important role of M&E in challenging many of our assumptions about poverty alleviation.

The results of studying a number of co-ordination bodies worldwide are distilled here into suggestions for setting up a field-based NGO co-ordination mechanism. The handbook provides chapters on getting started, the first year, expanding and consolidating, financial security, regional and international perspectives and trouble shooting.

Power and Partnership seeks to contribute to our understanding of capacity-building interventions, drawing out the issues and insights from practice. It also highlights the implications, particularly for Northern NGOs involved in developing strategies for capacity-building, aimed at all development professionals engaged in capacity-building.

Measuring the Process is a unique attempt to set out guidelines for evaluating social development processes. It is intended primarily as a practical guide for undertaking the evaluation of social development projects and combines a theoretical overview of the concepts involved, with insights into the planning and implementation of evaluation.

NGOs, Civil Society and the State contains papers that examine the role of NGOs in civil society. It includes general thematic papers on civil society, case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and papers that analyse initiatives undertaken by Northern NGOs and donors in democratisation programmes in the South.

Evaluating Empowerment is the fourth book in a series based on International Workshops on the Evaluation of Social Development. It includes a number of commissioned papers as well as papers presented by participants. It also includes both regional presentations as well as institutional statements by DFID, SIDA, Action Aid and Cordaid.

Civil Society in Action uses case studies from around the world which show a clear framework for understanding the nature and role of civil society and makes recommendations for more effective civil society strengthening. Examples of action by indigenous groups, advocacy journalism and transnational southern campaigning alliances are all explored.

This book examines the theory and practice of capacity building. It discusses common organisational challenges facing NGOs and presents in-depth practical case studies. These cases illustrate a range of assistance models designed to increase the organisational capacity of small enterprise development agencies in Africa.

This guide is offered as a contribution to the development community to assist it in its work and facilitate the processes of action and reflection, or 'Praxis'. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed introduction to the process of developing monitoring and evaluation systems.

Outcomes and Impacts provides a comprehensive discussion of the difficulties, dilemmas and opportunities of understanding the outcomes and impact of social development programmes and projects. Lessons are provided to establish more effective methods for understanding the outcomes and impact of development interventions.