@article{Nkwake_2013, place={Kalamazoo, MI}, title={Examining the Relationship between Community Participation and Program Outcomes in a Metaevaluation}, volume={9}, url={https://journals.sfu.ca/jmde/index.php/jmde_1/article/view/360}, DOI={10.56645/jmde.v9i20.360}, abstractNote={<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 0 131231 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-520092929 1073786111 9 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: medium none"> <tbody><tr> <td width="239" valign="top" style="width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt"> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Background:<em> </em></span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">The salience of stakeholder participation in community development is not disputed. However, there is a paucity of evidence that clearly links participation with program outcomes.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Purpose:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> We examined the link between participation and program outcomes.<em> <strong>Setting</strong>: </em>The article discusses data collated from World Vision (WV) program evaluations. WV is a faith based, grass-root community engaging, child focused relief and development organization that works in close to 100 countries to improve and sustain child well-being. Community participation is very central to WV’s program. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Intervention: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">92 community development programs evaluated between 2005 and 2010.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Research Design:<em> </em></span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">We used a metaevaluation design (Meta-analysis Summaries [DeCoster, 2004]), which involves identifying the prevalence of certain effects (such as child well-being outcomes) and the strengths of relationships among those effects and certain explanatory variables (such as community participation).</span></p> </td> <td width="239" valign="top" style="width: 239.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt"> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Data Collection and Analysis:</span></strong><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> A </span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">document review tool comprising 327 variables was used to review program design documents and evaluation reports. Each review item generated a score whenever a positive response was checked. The maximum possible score for a program was 200. These scores were used to measure correlations among major variables of participation and program outcomes. After the program documents were reviewed, the data was then manually entered into PASW statistics for analysis. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> </span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri">Findings:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri"> Programs that mostly used empowering approaches engaging a higher level of stakeholder participation were more than fifteen times more likely to exhibit improvements in child health, community health, education, and protection outcomes than those that which used direct service delivery (give a fish) approaches engaging less stakeholder participation. Also, participation of vulnerable groups like children and women had a stronger relationship with program outcomes than other forms of participation that did not involve vulnerable groups. </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="479" valign="top" style="width: 6.65in; border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; -moz-border-top-colors: none; -moz-border-right-colors: none; -moz-border-bottom-colors: none; -moz-border-left-colors: none; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt"> <p style="margin: 6pt 0in; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri; color: black">Keywords:</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Calibri; color: black"> community participation; program outcomes; metaevaluation</span></em></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>}, number={20}, journal={Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation}, author={Nkwake, Apollo M}, year={2013}, month={Jan.}, pages={1–17} }