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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Particip Res Methods. 2022 May 23;3(1):10.35844/001c.32605. doi: 10.35844/001c.32605

Table 5.

Evaluation

Evaluation. This domain includes participatory methods for evaluating project processes or outcomes.
Type/Brief Description Goals Participants Strengths Challenges
Participatory evaluation

(Center for Community Health and Development, n.d.; Chouinard & Milley, 2018; Cousins & Whitmore, 1998; Dias et al., 2021)
Encompasses a number of participatory approaches to evaluating programs (e.g., participatory evaluation, collaborative evaluation, empowerment evaluation) -Address inequities in evaluation practice

-Align programs with community needs

-Increase ownership of the evaluation process and results
-Program participants

-Program staff

-Partners

-Sponsors

-Evaluator

-Or all those with a stake in the outcome
-Inclusive

-Many ways to design studies and collect data

- Focus on capacity building and empowerment

- Good fit for participatory projects
-Some approaches do not distinguish clearly between participants as collaborators or as data sources

-May take longer than traditional evaluation
Partnership evaluation

(Belone et al., 2016; Oetzel et al., 2015; Wallerstein et al., 2008)
Evaluation of CBPR partnership practices and outcomes -Use conceptual/logic model of CBPR partnership processes -CBPR team members and partners -Captures many nuances of CBPR processes and outcomes

-Availability of scales and instruments

-Measures have been tested for validity
-Complex model

-Can be labor intensive to implement as evaluation approach
Ripple effects mapping

(Chazdon et al., 2017)
Participatory method to retrospectively and visually map the chain of effects resulting

from a program or collaboration
-Reflect on and document intended and unintended effects

-Use the Community Capitals Framework

-Evaluate longitudinal impacts
-Program participants

-Program staff/board members

-Coalition members

-Community members

-Stakeholders
-Uncover effects that may be missed by traditional evaluation (intended and unintended) Can be difficult to:

-Get timing right

-Decide who to include

-Achieve consistency across sites

-Show that reported impacts are attributable to the program