Table 5.
Evaluation. This domain includes participatory methods for evaluating project processes or outcomes. | |||||
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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 |