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Empowerment Evaluation

Empowerment Evaluation. Kimberly L. McKay Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis January 30, 2008. Origins and Background. Self-Determination Theory Community psychology and community-based action research . Empowerment Evaluation . What is empowerment evaluation?

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Empowerment Evaluation

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  1. Empowerment Evaluation Kimberly L. McKay Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis January 30, 2008

  2. Origins and Background • Self-Determination Theory • Community psychology and community-based action research

  3. Empowerment Evaluation • What is empowerment evaluation? • Why use empowerment evaluation? • Who uses empowerment evaluation?

  4. Empowerment Evaluation • David M. Fettermen’s Five Facets to Empowerment Evaluation: • Training • Facilitation • Advocacy • Illumination • Liberation

  5. Empowerment Evaluation • Advantages • Helps people to help themselves • Fettermen’s Five Facets • Used to bring about social and political change • Accountability

  6. Empowerment Evaluation • Disadvantages and Critiques • Lacks objectivity • Lack conceptual and methodological clarity • Difficult to measure success • Long and costly process

  7. Case Study: An Empowerment Evaluation Model for Sexual Assault Programs: Empirical Evidence of Effectiveness By Rebecca Campbell, et al.

  8. Sexual Assault and Rape Prevention (SARP) Evaluation Project • Multi-year evaluation project conducted with all state-funded rape prevention programs and rape victim services programs in Michigan • Empowerment Evaluation: • Goal of SARP

  9. SARP Evaluation Project Model • SARP Team members included stakeholders from multiple groups • SARP Team worked with ten rape prevention programs and twenty-four victim services programs

  10. SARP Evaluation Project Model • The SARP Team focused on three activities: • Assessing needs • Developing evaluation training materials • Providing evaluation training and technical assistance

  11. Effectiveness of the SARP Evaluation Project • Used a multi-method system of analysis that included: • Measuring the programs’ satisfaction with the SARP model • Tracking the programs’ progress in developing evaluation skills • Tracking the programs’ long-term capacity

  12. Overall Conclusions of the SARP Evaluation Project Model • 90% of the rape prevention programs made substantial progress in planning and conducting evaluations • 75% of the victim services programs had successfully launched program evaluations • My thoughts . . .

  13. Questions?

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