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Impacts were identified in specific aspects of the evaluation process, notably, gaining cooperation from local populations, gaining access to data, selecting data collection methods, understanding and interpreting data, addressing evaluation issues, and planning evaluation activities. The findings further revealed three clusters of barriers in the evaluation process that could be attributed to a lack of cultural difference awareness: barriers to data access, data collection, and evaluation reporting. Finally, the evaluator respondents discussed three different but overlapping approaches that they use to overcome those barriers---culture-oriented approach, methodology-oriented approach, and subject-matter approach. 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The findings further revealed three clusters of barriers in the evaluation process that could be attributed to a lack of cultural difference awareness: barriers to data access, data collection, and evaluation reporting. Finally, the evaluator respondents discussed three different but overlapping approaches that they use to overcome those barriers---culture-oriented approach, methodology-oriented approach, and subject-matter approach. 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