Question

What is cultural Competence? And how can it affect these evaluation steps: 1. engaging stakeholders, 2. describe the program, 3. focus the evaluation

Answer 1

Cultural competence is an ability to understand and communicate effectively with people from diverse community.culutral competence across culture make awareness of the cultural practice and develop a positive attitude towards cultural difference. As health care providers, we should respect their beliefs, values, language, customers, and traditions that make communication freely and honestly that improve patient outcomes.
  stakeholders' involvement is important for program evaluation. stakeholder engagement improves the evaluators' cultural competence. stakeholders are program managers, staff, evaluators, clients, and advocates their engagement is important for evaluation. standards and strategies that increase competence.variation in stakeholders engagement in lack of awareness, poor collaboration affect the evaluation process. culturally competent evaluators work to minimize their cultural biases and errors, lack of share among stakeholders. it accurately evaluates the life experience and perspective of program participants in an evaluation. If we fail to follow cultural competence values in program planning and evaluation it affects the evaluation program and evaluators' engagement. cultural competence evaluators avoid reinforcing cultural stereotyping and prejudice in their work. it affect the evaluation process when poor understanding and access appropriateness, poor interviews etc. evaluators should engage in politics behind programming, institutional discrimination in cultural competence, community, programs, and evaluation, data collection method, and ethical principles that should address the cultural competence and improve the program process.