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Arlene Laliberté - Empowerment Evaluation

Empowerment evaluation is a form of collaborative evaluation, in which the program stakeholders take an active and engaged role in the evaluation process, guided by the evaluator who acts as a facilitator. In addition to making the evaluation results more useful and relevant to the organisation, the advantages of empowerment evaluations include capacity building, self-determination, enhanced cohesion among program staff, accountability, and integrating evaluation in the organizational routine. In the context of First Nations communities, in which disenfranchisement and “top-down” programs imposed on communities and organizations are a common occurrence, these advantages can be particularly interesting. This presentation will describe collaborative evaluations and highlight the specificities of empowerment evaluation and its steps. We will discuss tailoring evaluations, and the advantages, inconveniences and challenges of empowerment evaluation. Arlène Laliberté, PhD, is Anishenabekwe (Algonquin woman) from Timiskaming First Nation. Following the completion of her doctorate in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia where she worked with several Aboriginal communities on community-based participatory action research projects to support empowerment, health equity, well-being and prevent suicide, as well as on program evaluation. Arlène is currently a professor of psychoeducation at Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.