ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how the History 2000 project handled its evaluation dimension. The emphasis is on how the impact of the project was enhanced by integrating evaluation into the life of the project, rather than by attempting to use a research-based, quantitative approach which only tried to measure on closure day the overall change it had achieved. It describes how projects have a life and a growth of their own, how the context within which they operate is unstable and developing, and how an integrated evaluation process—by operating in the space between the project and its community— can help a project make its optimal impact in its specific and particular environment.
