The Internal Learning System or ILS is a participatory impact assessment and planning system for microfinance and livelihood programmes primarily designed to meet the learning needs of programme participants, village groups and operational field staff. The medium of the system's pictorial impact...

This study analyses the incidence, frequency, costs and subsequent coping strategies of economic stress events which disrupt the household economy among poor self-employed women organized by SEWA, a grassroots development NGO. An analysis of the determinants of stress levels reveals that women...

Helzi Noponen describes a unique system designed to build capacities of grassroots NGO programme staff to think critically about programme operations and make strategic changes through a participatory monitoring and evaluation system. The system, called an 'internal learning system' (ILS), is...