%0 Journal Article
%T Giving ¡®power to the people¡¯ in a Nigerian hospital: From evaluation over to evaluation with stakeholders
%A Gosim Martin Chukwu
%J Action Research
%@ 1741-2617
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1476750317691104
%X ¡°Power to the people¡± is a popular political slogan that is used to convey the essence of democracy and participation. This paper derives from an action research intervention to implement participatory evaluation in a medium-sized private hospital in Nigeria, where the author was a training consultant. While the original objective of the intervention was to improve effectiveness of training through participatory evaluation, the study enabled an important outcome: it helped in clarifying and resolving social power differences prevalent in evaluation. The paper therefore contributes to the theory and practice of action research by describing how a researcher may better understand and relate to others with regard to social power. This plays a potentially useful role especially in participatory evaluation
%K Action research
%K focus group
%K participatory evaluation
%K social constructionism
%K social power
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1476750317691104