Guidelines for Involving the Community in Monitoring and Evaluation

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• Obtain the community's agreement for a participatory approach.
• Make sure objectives and methods are clear from the outset. Methods should be simple and adapted to the local culture.
• Recruit only community members acceptable to the community to do the work.
• Ensure that community members have the necessary skills.
• Avoid technically difficult and time-consuming follow up.
• Make sure that the level of community involvement is in line with abilities as well as earlier environmental assessment efforts.
• Consider how local value systems could be used to evaluate predicted impacts.

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