Who Counts? The Power of Participatory Statistics

"Development practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level policy processes."

Through chapters describing policy, programme, and project research, Who Counts? is written to provide impetus for a step change in the adoption and mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international development practice. Participatory statistics generated through participatory research is an approach - with an accompanying set of tools - in which local people themselves generate statistics.

The table of contents contains:

1. "Introduction - Jeremy Holland
2. Participatory 3-dimensional modelling for policy and planning - Giacomo Rambaldi
3. Measuring urban adaptation to climate change - Caroline Moser and Alfredo Stein
4. Participatory statistics, local decision-making, and national policy design - Ashish Shah
5. Generating numbers with local governments for decentralized health sector policy - Rose Marie R. Nierras
6. From fragility to resilience - Margunn Indreboe Alshaikh
7. Accountability downwards, count-ability upwards - Dee Jupp with Sohel Ibn Ali
8. Community groups monitoring impact with participatory statistics - Bernward Causemann, Eberhard Gohl, Chinnapillai Rajathi, Abraham Susairaj, Ganesh Tantry and Srividhya Tantry
9. Scoring perceptions of services in the Maldives - Nils Riemenschneider, Valentina Barca, and Jeremy Holland
10. Are we targeting the poor? - Carlos Barahona
11. Participatory impact assessment in drought policy contexts - Dawit Abebe and Andy Catley
12. Participatory impact assessment - Elizabeth Cromwell, Patrick Kambewa, Richard Mwanza, and Rowland Chirwa with KWERA Development Centre
13. Participatory impact assessments of farmer productivity programmes - Susanne Neubert
14. Afterword by Robert Chambers"