Empowerment evaluation and self-determination: A practical approach toward program improvement and capacity building.

2001 ◽  
pp. 321-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fetterman
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation

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.

Empowerment in a Supplementary Food Program in a Rural Community in Ghana

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofi Bobi Barimah ◽  
Geoffrey Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Service Provider ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Supplementary Food ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This article examines the concept of empowerment in the context of a supplementary food program in a rural community in Ghana. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to understand key empowerment processes and outcomes for women and their children. While the women felt positively about the outcomes of the program, they were less satisfied with program processes. Self-determination of the mothers and service-provider conduct were predictive of positive outcomes. The qualitative data served to temper the positive quantitative outcome data in showing that mothers are dependent on the food program. The findings were discussed in terms of the concept of empowerment and its implications for social change and program improvement.

scholarly journals Capacity Building for the Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Mazou N Temgoua ◽  
Mazou N Temgoua ◽  
Jérôme Boombhi ◽  
Joel Noutakdie Tochie ◽  
Amalia Owona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Cardiac Arrhythmias ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
Adequate Management

Cardiac Arrhythmias (CA) are major cause of death and disability worldwide. In Africa, a continent of poor resources, there is lack of trained specialists for adequate management of these patients. In this article, we propose a practical approach for capacity building of general practitioners to improve easy and timely recognition and better management of CA in Africa.

Evaluation capacity building—Results and reflections across two years of a multisite empowerment evaluation in an HIV prevention context

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 83-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter T. Lindeman ◽  
Emily Bettin ◽  
Lauren B. Beach ◽  
Christian N. Adames ◽  
Amy K. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Evaluation Capacity Building ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Capacity

Empowerment Evaluation: From Theory to Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judd Antin
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Evaluation Training ◽  
And Training

This article will focus on the practical application of the principles and methods of empowerment evaluation. Empowerment evaluation, conceptualized by Dr. David M. Fetterman, is described as "the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination" (Fetterman 1997). (For a complete description of the empowerment evaluation model, see Fetterman's 2001 book Foundations of Empowerment Evaluation). While that description tends towards the abstract, the practical sum of the debate between proponents and critics appears to be that empowerment evaluation is somewhere between classical evaluation and evaluation training. It is unabashedly "customer-oriented," and it shares the burden of evaluation with the evaluated group. Because it straddles the boundary between evaluation and training, to many empowerment evaluation represents a controversial new twist on established evaluation ideas.

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