Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation
Roundtable proceedings
The Commission held a roundtable on Better Indigenous Policies: The Role of Evaluation at Old Parliament House in Canberra on 22-23 October 2012. This publication of the proceedings was released on 30 April 2013.
The roundtable considered both the particular challenges in Indigenous policy evaluation and the actions needed to ensure that evidence gained from evaluations can be embedded in policy-making and program implementation.
Participants included representatives of Indigenous organisations, government officials, academics, consultants and representatives of non-government organisations. The Commission thanks all speakers and participants for their contribution.
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- Preliminaries (PDF - 327 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword and Contents - Summary of roundtable discussions (PDF - 256 Kb)
Session 1 Introduction
- Chapter 1 Introduction — why this roundtable? (PDF - 141 Kb)
- Gary Banks
- Chapter 2 Outcomes for Indigenous Australians — the current situation (PDF - 508 Kb)
- Robert Fitzgerald
- Chapter 3 The Indigenous policy experience 1960 to 2012 (PDF - 256 Kb)
- Fred Chaney
Session 2 The challenges in evaluating social and Indigenous policy
- Chapter 4 Challenges in evaluating Indigenous policy (PDF - 399 Kb)
- Les Malezer
- Chapter 5 The case for making public policy evaluations public (PDF - 198 Kb)
- Deborah A Cobb-Clark
Dinner address
Session 3 Key themes in evaluation of Indigenous policy and programs
- Chapter 7 Designing evaluation strategies (PDF - 201 Kb)
- Matthew James
- Chapter 8 Data for better Indigenous policy evaluation: achievements, constraints and opportunities (PDF - 241 Kb)
- John Taylor
- Chapter 9 Evaluating Indigenous programs and policies: communicating the outcomes (PDF - 322 Kb)
- David Kalisch and Fadwa Al-Yaman
Session 4 International experience
- Chapter 10 Better Indigenous policies: an Aotearoa New Zealand perspective on the role of evaluation (PDF - 367 Kb)
- Helen Moewaka Barnes
- Chapter 11 Is evaluation a tool for social justice? Reconciliation? Control? — Reflections on the Canadian experience in Indigenous affairs (PDF - 290 Kb)
Session 5 Evaluation and policy
- Chapter 12 The use of evaluation in Indigenous policy and program development: the case of Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory (PDF - 204 Kb)
- Michael Dillon
- Appendix 12A Methodology matters (PDF - 206 Kb)
- Chapter 13 Learning from experience? Getting governments to listen to what evaluations are telling them (PDF - 288 Kb)
- Prue Phillips-Brown, Tim Reddel and Brian Gleeson
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