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

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:
FOREWORD - Stewart I. Donaldson PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. History and Overview - David M. Fetterman 2. Empowerment Evaluation: Theories, Principles, Concepts, and Steps - David M. Fetterman PART II: SCOPE AND BREADTH Foundations 3. Mission Fulfillment: How Empowerment Evaluation Enables Funders to Achieve Results - Janice B. Yost 4. Foundation Strategy Drives the Choice of Empowerment Evaluation Principles - Laura C. Leviton International 5. Capacity Building Through Empowerment Evaluation: An Aymara Women Artisans Organization In Puno, Peru - Susana Sastre-Merino, Pablo Mera, José Maria Díaz-Puente, María Jose Fernández-Moral 6. Teachers as Evaluators: An Empowerment Evaluation Approach - Janet Clinton, John Hattie United States 7. Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Digital Village: A Place-based Empowerment Evaluation Initiative - David M. Fetterman 8. Empowerment Evaluation in Action in SAMHSA’s Service to Science Initiative: Cultivating Ownership and Enhancing Sustainability - Pamela Imm, Mathew Biewener, Dawn Oparah, Kim Dash PART III: TOOLS 9. Getting To Outcomes: An Empowerment Evaluation Capacity Building Model - Abraham Wandersman 10. “No Excuses”:  Using Empowerment Evaluation to Build Evaluation Capacity and Measure School Social Worker Effectiveness - Ivan Haskell, Aidyn L. Iachini 11. Empowerment Evaluation Conducted by 4th and 5th Grade Students - Regina Day Langhout, Jesica Siham Fernandez 12. Building Evaluation Capacity to Engage in Empowerment Evaluation: A Case of Organizational Transformation - Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tina Taylor-Ritzler, Gloria Morales-Curtin 13. An Empowerment Evaluation Approach to Implementing with Quality at Scale: The Quality Implementation Process and Tools - Andrea E. Lamont, Annie Wright, Abraham Wandersman, Debra Hamm 14. Empowerment Evaluation: Evaluation Capacity Building in a 10-Year Tobacco Prevention Initiative - David M. Fetterman, Linda Delaney, Beverley Triana-Tremain, Marian Evans-Lee PART IV: RESEARCH AND REFLECTION 15. Getting To Outcomes®: Evidence of Empowerment Evaluation and Evaluation Capacity Building at Work - Mathew Chinman, Joie Acosta, Sarah B. Hunter, Patricia Ebener PART V: CONCLUSION 16. Reflections on Emergent Themes and Next Steps Revisited - David M. Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, Shakeh J. Kaftarian