Fetterman(1996) believes that empowerment evaluation provides settings for evaluators to play such diverse roles as trainers, facilitators, advocates and co!liberators and in this proposition, evaluation utility appears compatible with various theoretical premises. Concurring with Rappaport (1989), Perry and Backus(1995) defined empowerment as “a process whereby individuals, organizations and communities gain mastery, over their affairs and facilitates this ability”. Empowerment evaluation is a program evaluation whereby the users of the evaluation can maximize their participation in and gain from the evaluation process. The roots of empowerment evaluation extend to participation theory: The more participation in decision-making processes the participants have, the likelier they become to commit to and invest in the decisions. Decisions made with participationtend to be more relevant to program practitioners and participants than decisions made without the involvement of those to be affected by those decisions. This conceptual framework provides a basis for empowerment evaluation. Through participation, the participants gain a mastery of program evaluation processes and outcomes as well, making their experience empowering.