Getting to Outcomes® An Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Capacity Building and Accountability

2015 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Abraham Wandersman
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Getting To Outcomes

scholarly journals Empowerment Evaluation: A Case Study of Citywide Implementation Within an HIV Prevention Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Phillips ◽  
Peter Lindeman ◽  
Christian N. Adames ◽  
Emily Bettin ◽  
Christopher Bayston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Learning Focused

HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions but have largely overlooked the complex environment in which these interventions are implemented, including other programs funded to do similar work. The Evaluation Center was funded by the City of Chicago in 2015 to conduct a citywide evaluation of all HIV prevention programming. This article will describe our novel approach to adapt the principles and methods of the empowerment evaluation approach, to effectively engage with 20 city-funded prevention programs to collect and synthesize multisite evaluation data, and ultimately build capacity at these organizations to foster a learning-focused community.

Application of a Multisite Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Increase Evaluation Capacity Among HIV Services Providers: Results From Project Pride in Chicago

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-S5
Author(s):  
Lauren B. Beach ◽  
Emma Reidy ◽  
Rachel Marro ◽  
Amy K. Johnson ◽  
Peter Lindeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Capacity ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
National Initiative ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Building Activities

In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Project PrIDE, a national initiative to implement and evaluate demonstration projects to increase PrEP uptake among HIV-negative individuals and to re-engage HIV-positive individuals in HIV care. Our team served as the Evaluation Center for Project PrIDE organizations in Chicago and used an empowerment evaluation (EE) approach to enhance evaluation capacity at these organizations. To evaluate our approach, we assessed organizations' evaluation capacity and engagement in technical assistance and capacity building activities in 2016 and 2018. Respondents who self-reported higher engagement with the Evaluation Center and who spent a greater number of hours engaged with our evaluators experienced greater increases in evaluation capacity tied to implementation of evaluation activities and technical assistance utilization. These findings demonstrate that multisite EE can be successfully applied to increase the evaluation capacity of organizations providing both HIV prevention and care services.

Toward Distinguishing Empowerment Evaluation and Placing it in a Larger Context

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Quinn Patton
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Utilization Focused

Fostering self-determination is the defining focus of empowerment evaluation and the heart of its explicit political and social change agenda. However, empowerment evaluation overlaps participatory, collaborative, stakeholder-involving, and utilization-focused approaches to evaluation in its concern for such issues as ownership, relevance, understandability, access, involvement, improvement, and capacity-building. A critical question becomes how to distinguish empowerment evaluation from these other approaches. Making such distinctions has become critical as the field debates the boundaries and implications of empowerment evaluation.

Participatory evaluation is the sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed”

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Rogers ◽  
Nea Harrison ◽  
Therese Puruntatameri ◽  
Alberta Puruntatameri ◽  
Joan Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Participatory Evaluation ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

Participatory evaluation can be embedded in programs to support good governance and facilitate informed decision making in Aboriginal communities in remote and urban contexts. An Aboriginal Elder from the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia described participatory evaluation as a sea eagle looking “long way wide eyed.” The metaphor refers to the long-term and broad approach undertaken when a complex community development program used participatory processes to build evaluation capacity and solve problems. The evaluation approach ensured the program was inclusive, responsive, empowering, and resulted in direct benefits for the communities. This article addresses the lack of literature on applying developmental and empowerment evaluation approaches in practice by describing the methods, tools, and use of evaluation findings. The value of participating for the community members and partner organizations is shared and the benefits and implications for participants and the evaluator are discussed. The authors hope this article inspires practitioners and evaluators to consider participatory ways of working with communities to support community directed action and social change.

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