Cross-cultural evaluation is an explicit approach to evaluation that considers culture a key consideration in the evaluation of programs, leading to the search for methodological practices that are commensurate with the culture, context and values of the program community. Through the exploration of three ‘problematics’, this article explores what it means to understand others and ourselves within the research context, problematizing the nature of identity and self-identity, as we begin to make sense of the multiple and often conflicting identities and categories of being that we confront both within ourselves and among our research participants in the field. How we represent our findings and how we understand the voices of others and ourselves in the text, while posing fundamental questions in any qualitative social science inquiry, becomes even more critical in cross-cultural research and evaluation.
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