What is the difference between participatory evaluation and action research?
Action research and participatory evaluation are complementary and aligned processes which use many of the same methods. However, action research can be much more than simply a tool for evaluation. For this reason we use the term “participatory evaluation” to talk about the aspects of action research that focus on evaluation. This paper is drawn from a large resource entitled Communities doing Participatory Evaluation, which has been developed by SFLEX. We have also prepared another resource about action research more broadly, called Doing Action Research with Community Projects.
