Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that
result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Development
practitioners are supporting and facilitating participatory statistics
from community-level planning right up to sector and national-level
policy processes. Statistics are being generated in the design,
monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment of development
interventions.Through describing policy, programme and project research,
Who Counts? provides impetus for a step change in the adoption and
mainstreaming of participatory statistics within international
development practice. The challenge laid down is to foster institutional
change on the back of the methodological breakthroughs and philosophical
commitment described in this book. The prize is a win-win outcome in
which statistics are a part of an empowering process for local people
and part of a real-time information flow for those aid agencies and
government departments willing to generate statistics in new ways.