Valuing Indigenous Knowledge and Doing: Fiona Cram (Keynote Speaker)
This workshop focuses on the evaluation of Indigenous services and programmes in ways that uphold and value Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing. The facilitator will call upon her experience with Mäori and Iwi (tribal) provider organisations in Aotearoa, New Zealand and ask participants to likewise call upon their own experiences of working with Indigenous (and/or other disadvantaged) groups.
Collaborative models of working with Indigenous provider organisations will be explored, including some of the tools that might assist these collaborations. The workshop will examine the challenges facing Indigenous provider organisations and the importance of all stakeholders understanding these challenges when placing expectations upon these organisations.
The workshop will look at logic model development as a way of initiating dialogue about program outcomes and values, and documenting Indigenous programmes. This will also cover the links between logic models, theories of change, and monitoring and evaluation. Various qualitative and quantitative methods that been employed in evaluations with Mäori and Iwi provider organisations will also be explored.
Workshop participants will be involved in discussing theories of change and developing logic models. This will lead into interactive work on how Indigenous programmes can be evaluated.
At the end of the workshop participants will have an understanding of:
- the context in which many Indigenous provider organisations are operating;
- Indigenous aspirations and theories of change;
- tools for collaboratively constructing logic models; and
- frameworks for evaluating Indigenous provider organisations.
This workshop is aimed at …
- Those working with Indigenous provider organisations who would like to find out more about how evaluation might work for them, and
- Those undertaking evaluations of Indigenous provider organisations.
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