In the summer of 2013, we contracted independent consultants Mary Myers and Mary Hobley to evaluate PLA. We would like to thank them for producing a thoughtful, well-argued and stimulating report.

We asked them to outline options for the future of PLA and they developed four:
i) explore the possibility of transferring elements of the journal to interested outsiders,
ii) orderly closure with legacy website,
iii) active hand-over to IDS and incorporation into Participatory Methods web-platform and
iv) re-launch and re-brand as ‘Tactics and Tools’. We value these fou