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.

Jeremy Holland Jeremy Holland is Lecturer at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales Swansea

Robert Chambers Robert Chambers is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the great surge of interest in the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal around the world. He has been a Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies since 1972 and is an author, co editor and contributor of many books.

“Registries are not only a tool for data collection, they are for action”: Cancer registration and gaps in data for health equity in six population‐based registries in India

Bhatia, Amiya

Victora, Cesar Gomes

Beckfield, Jason

Budukh, Atul

Krieger, Nancy

International Journal of Cancer, Vol. 148 (2021), Iss. 9 P.2171

https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33391 [Citations: 1]

Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems

Assessing the Performance of Social Protection Delivery Systems

Raimondo, Estelle

Wilson, Briana

Caillava, Inés Rodríguez

Lindert, Kathy

2020

https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1577-5_ch9 [Citations: 0]

Opportunity Gap Analysis: Procedures and Methods for Applying the Capability Approach in Development Initiatives

Biggeri, Mario

Ferrannini, Andrea

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 15 (2014), Iss. 1 P.60

https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2013.837036 [Citations: 28]

Knowing in Development: A Radical Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Chambers, Robert

Forum for Development Studies, Vol. 41 (2014), Iss. 3 P.525

https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2014.959376 [Citations: 11]

Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online

Indicators Definition: Weighting Criteria in Social Indexes

Ivaldi, Enrico

Ciacci, Andrea

2020

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat08102 [Citations: 0]

Measuring Peace from the Bottom Up with the Pasto Indigenous Group in Nariño, Colombia

Levy, Naomi

Firchow, Pamina

PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 54 (2021), Iss. 3 P.558

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000275 [Citations: 2]

Rethinking research partnerships: Evidence and the politics of participation in research partnerships for international development

Fransman, Jude

Newman, Kate

Journal of International Development, Vol. 31 (2019), Iss. 7 P.523

https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3417 [Citations: 14]

Normes et directives pour l’aide d’urgence à l’élevage (LEGS)

CHAPITRE 3 Évaluation initiale et identification des réponses

2017

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780446745.003 [Citations: 0]

Inclusive rigour for complexity

Chambers, Robert

Journal of Development Effectiveness, Vol. 7 (2015), Iss. 3 P.327

https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1068356 [Citations: 13]

Moving interdisciplinary science forward: integrating participatory modelling with mathematical modelling of zoonotic disease in Africa

Grant, Catherine

Lo Iacono, Giovanni

Dzingirai, Vupenyu

Bett, Bernard

Winnebah, Thomas R. A.

Atkinson, Peter M.

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, Vol. 5 (2016), Iss. 1

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0110-4 [Citations: 25]

Social policy and embedded evaluation: Assessing the impact of a food insecurity project in the United Kingdom

Purdam, Kingsley

Silver, Daniel

Social Policy & Administration, Vol. 54 (2020), Iss. 7 P.999

https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12583 [Citations: 3]

Normas y directrices para intervenciones ganaderas en emergencias (LEGS)

CAPÍTULO 3 - Evaluación inicial e identificación de respuestas

2016

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449197.004 [Citations: 0]

Can We Know Better?

CHAPTER 5: Power, participation, and knowledge: knowing better together

Chambers, Robert

2017

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449449.005 [Citations: 0]

Inter‐ i sland relations in Oceania's archipelagos: Identity and everyday politics

Prinsen, Gerard

Mawyer, Alexander

Cholymay, Margarita

Lotti, Allison

Manuireva, Ena

Muir, Helen

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 62 (2021), Iss. 2 P.223

https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12302 [Citations: 1]

SHARP: integrating a traditional survey with participatory self-evaluation and learning for climate change resilience assessment

Choptiany, John M.H.

Phillips, Suzanne

Graeub, Benjamin E.

Colozza, David

Settle, William

Herren, Barbara

Batello, Caterina

Climate and Development, Vol. 9 (2017), Iss. 6 P.505

https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2016.1174661 [Citations: 11]

Ethics in evaluation

Barnett, Chris

Camfield, Laura

Journal of Development Effectiveness, Vol. 8 (2016), Iss. 4 P.528

https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2016.1244554 [Citations: 5]

Does beneficiary farmer feedback improve project performance? An impact study of a participatory monitoring intervention in Mindanao, Philippines

Masset, Edoardo

Haddad, Lawrence

(2014) P.1

https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.959933 [Citations: 0]

Negotiating Knowledge

CHAPTER 1: Introduction: why do NGOs need to negotiate knowledge?

King, Sophie

Kontinen, Tiina

Narayanaswamy, Lata

Hayman, Rachel

2016

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449258.001 [Citations: 4]

Participatory numbers for integrating knowledge and actions in development

Gaillard, J.C.

Cadag, Jake Rom

Gampell, Anthony

Hore, Katherine

Le Dé, Loic

McSherry, Alice

Development in Practice, Vol. 26 (2016), Iss. 8 P.998

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2016.1226263 [Citations: 14]

Navigating Complexity in International Development

Seeing the system – participatory systemic inquiry

Burns, Danny

Worsley, Stuart

2015

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780448510.004 [Citations: 0]

Developing a Pictorial Sisterhood Method in collaboration with illiterate Maasai traditional birth attendants in northern Tanzania

Roggeveen, Yadira

Schreuder, Renske

Zweekhorst, Marjolein

Manyama, Mange

Hatfield, Jennifer

Scheele, Fedde

van Roosmalen, Jos

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Vol. 135 (2016), Iss. 1 P.65

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijgo.2016.03.035 [Citations: 2]

Negotiating Knowledge

CHAPTER 9: NGOs and the evidence-based policy agenda

Hayman, Rachel

2016

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449258.009 [Citations: 6]

Participatory cooperative research: for the people, by the people, with the people

Hannan, Rowshan

Development in Practice, Vol. 25 (2015), Iss. 4 P.490

https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2015.1031084 [Citations: 3]

Ten Simple Rules for Cultivating Open Science and Collaborative R&D

Masum, Hassan

Rao, Aarthi

Good, Benjamin M.

Todd, Matthew H.

Edwards, Aled M.

Chan, Leslie

Bunin, Barry A.

Su, Andrew I.

Thomas, Zakir

Bourne, Philip E.

Lewitter, Fran

PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 9 (2013), Iss. 9 P.e1003244

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244 [Citations: 22]

Reclaiming Everyday Peace

Firchow, Pamina

2018

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108236140 [Citations: 56]

Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective

Apsan Frediani, Alexandre

Boni, Alejandra

Gasper, Des

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 15 (2014), Iss. 1 P.1

https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2013.879014 [Citations: 22]

Fairtrade Impacts

CHAPTER 2 – Exploring issues of rigour and utility in Fairtrade impact assessment

Nelson, Valerie

Martin, Adrienne

2017

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780449067.002 [Citations: 1]

Systemic Participatory Action Research and Learning within Large-Scale Operational Programs to Eradicate Bonded Labor in India

Oosterhoff, Pauline

Burns, Danny

International Review of Qualitative Research, Vol. 13 (2020), Iss. 2 P.140

https://doi.org/10.1177/1940844720933235 [Citations: 0]