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Demonstration

Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building

Making Evaluation Accessible: Participatory practices and processes to diversify and demystify the field of evaluation

Stream: Professional Development and Leadership

Thursday, October 24, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
Location: Portland Ballroom 256
Abstract Information: Accessibility of evaluation amongst communities and partners is not only essential to the demystification and diversification of the field, but also to the effectiveness and efficacy of evaluation practices and results. Community-based participatory approaches must be utilized to clarify the framing of evaluation by recentering community as the owners and experts of the field. Organizations can integrate collaborative processes and practices along every stage of the evaluation process to prioritize the knowing, being, and teachings of communities for communities by communities. HACER details an internal evaluation process that centers all projects around community-ownership and evaluation capacity building to empower partners and communities to guide, lead, and utilize evaluation for positive change. Moreover, HACER shares tools that help to facilitate evaluation capacity building for new evaluators and community members alike, making evaluation accessible, culturally relevant, and implementable at any level of understanding.