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Principles of Community Engagement (Second Edition)

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CONCLUSION<br />

Program evaluation can take a variety <strong>of</strong> forms and serve a variety <strong>of</strong> pur-<br />

poses, ranging from helping to shape a program to learning lessons from its<br />

implementation or outcomes Engaging stakeholders throughout the evaluation<br />

process improves the evaluation and positions these stakeholders to<br />

implement necessary changes as identified through the evaluation Both<br />

participatory and empowerment evaluation are built on this insight and<br />

prescribe specific approaches to stakeholder involvement that are consistent<br />

with the principles <strong>of</strong> community engagement Evaluating communityengaged<br />

partnerships in and <strong>of</strong> themselves is an emerging area In addition,<br />

SNA and formal models <strong>of</strong> engagement may provide useful frameworks for<br />

evaluating engagement<br />

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