Participation and combined methods in African poverty assessment : renewing the agenda.

Report on participatory poverty assessments, highlighting new tendencies in the methodology and their contribution to new insights into African policy. Intensive use is made of both formal poverty assessments, especially in Zambia and Tanzania and other substantive work. The report notes the widespread adoption of principles of PPA (multiple stakeholders and diverse investigative styles) and concludes that the momentum of participatory and combined approaches is best sustained by disseminating as widely as possible the increasing sophistication and evolving agenda of work in this area.