"Four years after its inception, Worldview International Foundation can look back on considerable achievements in the field of video training and production. Close to 150 video productions, more than 50 people trained in the use of video, 16 mm films that have reached an audience of several millions
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, assistance to media centres in a number of countries, international seminars, workshops and consultations - all under the leadership of the organisation's founder and Secretary General, Arne Fjørtoft. But the considerable and rapid growth of the organisation has also brought with it several problems that must be solved if Worldview International Foundation (WIF) shall be able to fullfill its idealistic and ambitious objectives." (Conclusions, page 7)
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"Prepared by a group of experts within the CROP network, this book was a state-of-the-art report on poverty and poverty research in different regions in 1996. As such, it was unique and the first volume ever to cover poverty studies worldwide, and to present the rich variety of concepts, hypotheses
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and data used in different disciplines in different cultural settings. The book contains a great number of ideas and reflections on poverty manifestations, poverty research and poverty strategies, of great value for researchers and policy-makers alike. As such, it is a baseline for ongoing and future research, and a major contribution to setting up the agenda for poverty research in the new millennium." (https://www.crop.org/Publications)
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"Participatory Impact Monitoring is a concept for guiding self-help projects in development co-operation. The actors involved carry out the monitoring themselves. Because PIM assumes that these actors are autonomous, it has several strands or "strings" - the monitoring systems of the self-help group
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s and the organisations are separate. The strings are periodically compared: the actors reflect on their observations and assessments, adapt their planning accordingly and deepen their dialogue with one another." (Gate 4/98)
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