At least five realistic conditions promote the optimum realization of empowerment evaluation
First, as the previous section suggests an evaluator must be comfortable in the role of teacher for practitioner or consumer involvement requires intensive interaction with those individuals in the course of preserving the scientific integrity of the evaluation
This comfort must include and reflect an evaluator’s belief in the involvement of service providers or consumers as a humane and useful way to operationalize empowerment evaluation
The evaluator’s sense of comfort and confidence must also stem from his or her familiarity with the program and its political environment
Second since evaluation with participation requires lengthy processing periods in all the evaluation steps an
evaluator must allow suffcient time