Abstract
Community based practices have been developed in cooperation with various specialized agencies and professions as well as people living in the region and other interested parties. The author considers it particularly important to involve participants from various backgrounds in the evaluation of community based practice through collaboration. This paper reports two participatory evaluations as case studies, which took place at Community Café and Dementia Café in [A] area, Matsumoto City. The events identified participatory evaluation’s advantages in: (1) facilitating discussions and forming consensus; and (2) easing program improvement efforts. On the other hand, it also highlighted the difficulty of setting up standards for achievements in evaluation workshops.
