This article aimed at finding out if participatory processes (group discussions, enactments, and others) do make a valuable contribution in communication-based project implementation leading to the limiting of the spread of HIV/ AIDS through sexual behavior and a change of attitude-the essence required for successful intervention. Group participatory processes were also noted to have contributed in overriding, to a great extent, limitations arising from sociodemographic differences in the attainment of project objectives and limitations arising from differences in forms of evaluation (internal versus external evaluators). Keywords: HIV/AIDS; evaluations; participation; empowerment; interventionsThis article seeks to find out if participatory processes do make a valuable contribution in project implementation/evaluation and the fight against HIV/ AIDS. These processes imply more than the mere presence of people on board but their active involvement in collectively taking control, developing plans of action, and responding to feedback in relation to future action. These processes could have implications for both interventions and their evaluations. As pointed out by Nutbeam (1998), a significant attempt is being made to understand the complexity of health promotion activities and the related need for sophisticated measures and evaluation research designs. A careful understanding of issues embodying evaluations, particularly those related to meaningful involvement by beneficiaries and other stakeholders in evaluation processes, could then be considered to be of vital importance. To this end, projects dealing with HIV/AIDS in a participatory manner were analyzed in terms of whether they added value to evaluation of communication-

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