ABSTRACT
Health promotion involves changing the power relations so excluded groups can have a say and ‘take control’ of the factors that create health (Labonte 1994, 1999). The most appropriate type of evaluation, therefore, is one that involves enhancing this control. Making explicit who the evaluation is for is the first stage in addressing issues of oppression. However, there is a need to go beyond that. Being true to the central tenets of health promotion means an appropriate approach to evaluation is one that does not, at the very minimum, contribute to disempowerment but at best empowers.
