Contribution to the evaluation of the impact of the Empowerment and Communication Workshops

Abstract

The article addresses the authors' conception about impact assessment as a complex process. The main evaluation results are reported in the 2018 and 2022 editions of the Empowerment and Communication Workshops (TEC in Spanish) carried out by the Human Change Group (GCH in Spanish) of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS in Spanish). Its objective is to know to what extent it contributes to evaluating the impact of the TEC (an experiential training action) from making people aware, in the short term, of the importance of empowerment. For this, the results of the empowerment survey were analyzed, an instrument used for the first time in 2018 and with adaptations in the 2022 edition. Favorable changes were observed in the majority of the people surveyed in relation to the elements of the inquiry, which in turn, they were linked to descriptors of empowerment previously defined and enriched throughout the process. In the final reflections, the importance of raising awareness achieved in pursuit of more lasting transformations in individuals and organizations is highlighted. The need to deepen the results obtained is advocated and the contributions of the application and analysis of these surveys and of the experience as a whole are recognized, for the evaluation of TEC impact.