How can evaluation better recognise Indigenous self-determination? – audio

The right of Indigenous peoples to self-determination has significant implications for evaluating policies and programs that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and experts are showing the way.

28 August 2019

Social Ventures Australia · How can evaluation better recognise Indigenous self-determination?

Summary

Based on interviews with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and experts, this article identifies five areas for improving evaluation practice to recognise and support the right of Indigenous self-determination.
Commissioners of evaluations (those who commission and fund them) should invest in more and better evaluations to build a stronger evidence base, and in building the capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations in evaluation, learning and improvement.
Both evaluation commissioners and evaluators (those who conduct the evaluations) should ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people take the lead in defining what ‘successful’ policies and programs look like, and that evaluations collect information about strengths, opportunities and existing resources.
Evaluators should use genuinely participatory and culturally appropriate methods for gathering data and consulting community.

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How can evaluation better recognise Indigenous self-determination? – audio

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