Two years ago, a grassroots critical re-evaluation of Heaven's Gate resulted in the unveiling of a new cut of the movie at the Venice Film Festival, where it was hailed as "a modern masterpiece".
It presents two case studies of NGOs – RuralLife and Unison - who sought to transform their target communities into active, engaged and self-determined citizens with the support of grassroots accountability practices of monitoring and evaluation.
The coordinators, as well as project staff at the national level, were involved in planning related to the timing, nature and content of training programmes for trainers and grassroots staff, as well as project implementation and evaluation.
There are AstroTurf groups like "Educators 4 Excellence" who take large sums of money to act like a genuine grassroots group but whose pledge includes supporting discredited teacher evaluation methods favored by union busting corporate donors.
The social scientist uses the findings during project preparation to complete the design, phasing and costing of: (a) pro-poor participatory processes; (b) grassroots institutional arrangements; (c) poverty and gender targeting mechanisms; and (d) monitoring and evaluation (M&E) feedback systems.
Ecopetrol, Colombia's national oil company, has selected Mustang, a Wood Group company, to perform conceptual engineering and technology evaluations to optimise the production of polymers at Ecopetrol's grassroots integrated petrochemical complex in Colombia.
While current reparation policies are often considered absent or ineffective [ 45], and NGOs and government interventions remain without formal evaluation [ 21], participants in this study appraised their own participation in grassroots organizations as very important for their survival.
The present article was motivated by our observations that (1) current methods for gathering data do not wholly capture program-related transformations, and (2) grassroots ways of knowing yield legitimate data and can enrich programmatic efforts and evaluations.
The Planning Commission evaluation found that official statistics on nutrition generated by the concerned departments "do not represent grassroots reality" and linked the "unreliable and unrepresentative" data to the misuse of available funds in the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
