Using evaluability assessment and evaluation capacity-building to strengthen community-based prevention initiatives.

Objectives: To examine the process of community-campus engagement in an initiative developed to build evaluation capacities of community-based organizations (CBOs).

Methods: Evaluability assessment, capacity-building, self administered surveys and semi-structured interviews were conducted from 2004 to 2007 and analyzed through transcript assessment and SPSS to identify trends, relationships and capacity changes over time.

Results: Evaluability assessment identified CBO strengths in program planning and implementation and challenges in measurable objective development, systematic use of mixed methods, data management and analysis.