Empowerment
Evaluation
Key Principles
Lawrence Deane,
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Work
University of Manitoba
Empowerment Evaluation
Origins:
Participatory Action
Research
- Research in social
justice settings
- NASA
- Hewlett Packard
- David Fetterman – Pres.
1994
American Evaluation Society
Empowerment
Process by which people
take charge of their
environment – physical,
economic, social, cultural
psychological
Empowerment
•Decision-making
•Self-perception
•Increased resources
Research is an
important resource
•Consumes time
•Shapes perceptions
•Releases resources
Research in social settings has
always been political. It either
maintains, explains, or justifies
the status quo - or questions it.
- Rajesh Tandon
Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
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- Community control of
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Reasons for Community Control
(Empowerment)
•Ethics
•Epistemology
•Effectiveness
Reasons for Community Control
(Empowerment)
•Ethics
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Respectful
Non-coercive
Confidentiality
Reports with integrity
– Redistributes power
Epistemology –
study of methods,
validity, and scope of knowledge
How to develop accurate knowledge
Participatory methods build authentic
How do you know it is accurate
knowledge
Reasons for Community Control
(Empowerment)
•Ethics
•Epistemology
•Effectiveness
Participatory Action
Research
Community carries out
research on itself
Empowerment Evaluation
Community evaluates its own
work
/its own programs
Role of the Evaluator
•Facilitator
•Technical resource person
Assumptions
•All stakeholders - interest in
program improvement
•Funders, researchers, staff
form an evaluation ‘community’
•Commitment to competent
social science
•All research is vulnerable to
bias
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
My questions
“How can North End Housing
Project become more culturally
appropriate”
Community re-write
“North End Housing Project is
fixing up some old buildings on
the street.
How can they help with culture”
Most common response
“No answer”
Community members’
questions
“Do you have a spirit name?”
“What kind of ceremonies have
you been to?”
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination
(knowledge mobilization)
Participatory
(Empowering) Evaluation
- Community control of
•Purpose
•Design
•Conduct
•Analysis
•Use/Dissemination (knowledge
mobilization)