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How to Better Carry out the Empowerment Evaluation: Discrimination between Empowerment Evaluation and Participatory Evaluation

ZHANG Shu, LIU Zesheng   

  1. School of Public Affairs, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210094, China
  • Received:2021-06-08 Online:2021-11-15 Published:2021-12-14

Abstract: Evaluation has always played an important rolein the professionalization and standardization of social work. Third-party evaluation is widely accepted because of its objectivity and standardization process that can provide reliable and credible verification, but it also has the disadvantages of not being able to directly and effectively intervene in the service and the delay of evaluation. Empowerment evaluation was proposed in this context and made up for the lack of third-party evaluation by promoting participant capacity building and improving the effectiveness of service projects. However, the development of empowerment evaluation in China is still immature, and evaluators are prone to deviations in conceptual understanding such as original connotation and unclear boundaries, which leads to unclear boundaries with participatory evaluation, and the results of empowerment fail to achieve the expected results. This paper analyzes the connotation and objectives of empowerment evaluation and participatory evaluation, extracts the core practice principles of empowerment evaluation, and proposes further research directions for empowerment evaluation.

Key words: empowerment, empowerment evaluation, participatory evaluation, principles of practice

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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