Supporting evaluation in Kenya: Reflections on experiences with the Kenyan adult literacy programme

This paper arises out of the experience of two British Council sponsored specialist tours to Kenya in 1982 and 1983. The purpose of the tours was to work with Kenyan colleagues involved in the Kenya Adult Literacy Programmes on the development of evaluation strategies. In attempting to support this evaluation work a number of questions have been generated which point to the need for a clearer definition of what constitutes an evaluation activity. The process of re-definition raises further questions on the nature of the relationship that evaluators should have with evaluatees.