As regards liberation, it is helpful to ascertain the target group to be liberated. It can be a group of service recipients, service providers, or both, as long as they participate in the evaluation process.
Liberation has a different meaning to each of these groups, but what it holds in common is that they have more influence in the way the program is evaluated and realigned than they do in the conventional evaluation by an external evaluator.
Their influence may affect how the evaluation goals and objectives are defined or how evaluation criteria are prioritized.
Once the participants experience “liberation|”, they necessarily move toward self-efficacy and self-determination.