Participatory monitoring and evaluation is a joint responsibility for the quality of municipal services

More than 220 residents (135 men and 87 women), 13 pilot aimaks from Issyk-Kul and Jalal-Abad regions - representatives of local councils, employees of AO, the non-governmental sector and the local community have been trained participatory monitoring and evaluation.

The purpose of these workshops was to train the skills of participatory monitoring and evaluation of the implementation and results of local initiatives and the development of the municipality at all.

Participants were shown pictures of schools, club and other public facilities that have been made in the course of monitoring visits to the municipalities (Photos provided without the name of the municipality)

• Photo of the club, which construction can not be completed the third year (the money was paid to the contractor who did not complete the job and disappeared);
• Photos of the new school, built just two years ago, where already is not working heating system, floor patched, as building work was carried out poorly and not according to standards, that in result even the trial began;
• Photos of the school heating system that requires big additional investment.

Then, the course participants were shown examples of the opposite of good management of social objects. The purpose of comparison was the motivation of participants to a discussion of how the community can monitor the solutions of local issues, and to evaluate the results of the local government. During the discussion,

the participants tried to answer the following questions:

• what is "joint monitoring" and for what do we need it;
• how and when should it be;
• what is the "evaluation" and what is the difference between monitoring and evaluation.

A distinctive feature of the training was that the training materials were distributed only at the end of training so that participants do not look at them, do not give ready-made answers to questions, and tried to understand the control function of the community by themselves. Using this approach, the training received, mostly interactive forms.