This book is a collection of experiences in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) from around the world. It allows different ‘voices’ to tell their story from their different perspectives, contexts, and settings. The purpose of the book is not to establish a singular definition of PM&E practice, but to pull together these experiences, review these efforts, and see what key issues and q...

Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm that leverages information sent by smartphone users to collect fine-grained information on events of interest. Given participatory sensing applications rely completely on the users’ willingness to submit up-to-date and reliable information, it is paramount to effectively incentivize users’ active and reliable participation. In this paper, we survey e...

Stakeholder engagement, collaboration, or participation, shared learning or fact-finding, have become buzz words and hardly any environmental assessment or modelling effort today can be presented without some kind of reference to stakeholders and their involvement in the process. This is clearly a positive development, but in far too many cases stakeholders have merely been paid lip service and...

Mobile surveillance has been recently proposed as a replacement for traditional road-side surveillance system. One important aspect of a mobile surveillance system is to decide what are the events of interest. In this work, we adopt the concept of participatory sensing for mobile surveillance by involving a human into the loop of data collection. We introduce a virtual credit based mechanism to...

The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has collaborated with the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) to deploy a metropolitan scale Wi-Fi mesh network in the Los Angeles State Historic Park near Downtown Los Angeles. We refer to this network as Met-Wi. This will be an extension of the University’s...

Due to reduction in petroleum production and aging production facilities, the Norwegian oil and gas industry is interested in optimization maintenance strategies and reducing costs. Currently the maintenance strategies are based on predetermined periodic (calendar or use time) preventive maintenance strategies that are developed based on statistical data and/or recommendation from the manufactu...

Although there has been a growing body of literature on post-disaster participatory reconstruction, a shared understanding on a participatory approach is insufficient. A design charrette is a participatory planning that is particularly suitable for situations in which multidisciplinary professionals and non-professional stakeholders collaborate to accomplish target tasks in a short period of ti...

Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

Using data from a national living standards survey undertaken in late 1993, this paper disaggregates and explores the economics of livelihood generation and class in rural South Africa in an effort to contribute to the ongoing and vociferous debate in South Africa about poverty and its alleviation. Pursuant to the suggestion of participants in a recent participatory poverty assessment, this pap...