This book explores empowerment evaluation, a method for using evaluation concepts, techniques and findings to foster improvement and self-determination. The book concludes with an assessment of various themes.

Introduction : history and overview / David M. Fetterman -- Empowerment evaluation : theories, principles, concepts, and steps / David M. Fetterman -- Mission fulfillment : how empowerment evaluation enables funders to achieve results / Janice B. Yost -- Foundation strategy drives the choice of empowerment evaluation principles / Laura C. Leviton -- Capacity building through empowerment evaluation : an Aymara Women Artisans organization in Puno, Peru / Susana Sastre-Merino, Pablo Vidueira, José Mária Díaz-Puente, and María José Fernndez-Moral -- Teachers as evaluators : an empowerment evaluation approach / Janet Clinton and John Hattie -- Hewlett-Packard's $15 million digital village : a place-based empowerment evaluation initiative / David M. Fetterman -- Empowerment evaluation in action in SAMHSA's service to science initiative : cultivating ownership and enhancing sustainability / Pamela Imm, Mathew Biewener, Dawn Oparah, and Kim Dash -- Getting to outcomes : an empowerment evaluation approach for capacity building and accountability / Abraham Wandersman -- "No Excuses" : using empowerment evaluation to build evaluation capacity and measure school social worker effectiveness / Ivan Haskell and Aidyn L. Iachini -- Empowerment evaluation conducted by fourth- and fifth-grade students / Regina Day Langhout and Jesica Siham Fernndez -- Building evaluation capacity to engage in empowerment evaluation : a case of organizational transformation / Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tina Taylor-Ritzler, and Gloria Morales-Curtin -- An empowerment evaluation approach to implementing with quality at scale : the quality implementation process and tools / Andrea E. Lamont, Annie Wright, Abraham Wandersman, and Debra Hamm -- Empowerment evaluation : evaluation capacity building in a 10-year tobacco prevention initiative / David M. Fetterman, Linda Delaney, Beverly Triana-Tremain, and Marian Evans-Lee -- Getting to outcomesª : evidence of empowerment evaluation and evaluation capacity building at work / Mathew Chinman, Joie Acosta, Sarah B. Hunter, and Patricia Ebener -- Conclusion : reflections on emergent themes and next steps revisited / David M. Fetterman, Abraham Wandersman, and Shakeh J. Kaftarian.