Empowerment Evaluation

Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability

David M. Fetterman, Shakeh J. Kaftarian, Abraham Wandersman

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781452299532
• eBook ISBN: 9781483355382
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

This Second Edition celebrates 21 years of the practice of empowerment evaluation, a term first coined by David Fetterman during his presidential address for the American Evaluation Association. Since that time, this approach has altered the landscape of evaluation and has spread to a wide range of settings in more than 16 countries. In this new book, an outstanding group of evaluators from academia, government, nonprofits, and foundations assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the landmark 1996 edition. The book includes 10 empowerment evaluation principles, a number of models and tools to help put empowerment evaluation into practice, reflections on the history and future of the approach, and illustrative case studies from a number of different projects in a variety of diverse settings. The Second Edition offers readers the most current insights into the practice of this stakeholder-involvement approach to evaluation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART I Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction History and Overview
• CHAPTER 2 Empowerment Evaluation Theories, Principles, Concepts, and Steps
• PART II Scope and Breadth
• CHAPTER 3 Mission Fulfillment How Empowerment Evaluation Enables Funders to Achieve Results
• CHAPTER 4 Foundation Strategy Drives the Choice of Empowerment Evaluation Principles
• CHAPTER 5 Capacity Building Through Empowerment Evaluation An Aymara Women Artisans Organization in Puno, Peru
• CHAPTER 6 Teachers as Evaluators An Empowerment Evaluation Approach
• CHAPTER 7 Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Digital Village A Place-Based Empowerment Evaluation Initiative
• CHAPTER 8 Empowerment Evaluation in Action in SAMHSA’s Service to Science Initiative Cultivating Ownership and Enhancing Sustainability
• PART III Tools
• CHAPTER 9 Getting to Outcomes® An Empowerment Evaluation Approach for Capacity Building and Accountability
• CHAPTER 10 “No Excuses” Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness
• CHAPTER 11 Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Students1
• CHAPTER 12 Building Evaluation Capacity to Engage in Empowerment Evaluation A Case of Organizational Transformation
• CHAPTER 13 An Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Implementing With Quality at Scale The Quality Implementation Process and Tools
• CHAPTER 14 Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building in a 10-Year Tobacco Prevention Initiative
• PART IV Research and Reflections
• CHAPTER 15 Getting To Outcomes® Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work
• PART V Conclusion
• CHAPTER 16 Conclusion Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next Steps Revisited1
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Publisher Note