aes24 International Evaluation Conference

Conference hashtag #aes24MEL

11:00am AEST

Appreciating First Nations voices: Using appreciative inquiry and participation in the evaluation of Community Justice Groups 101-102Allison Clarke • Michael Limerick • Melinda Mann Innovating Value for Money: Finding Our Way to Greater Value for All 105Jade Maloney • Julian King • John Gargani • Farida Fleming

11:30am AEST

Culturally Responsive Initiatives: Introducing the First Nations Investment Framework 104Alice Muller • Steven Legg • Eugenia Marembo

12:00pm AEST

From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Insights from a teacher workforce initiative evaluation 104Alice Muller • Rhiannon Birch • Hayden Jose Warlpiri ways of assessing impact - How an Aboriginal community is defining, assessing and taking action for a good life in their community. 101-102Allison Clarke • Emily Lapinski • Alex Gyles • Glenda Napaljarri Wayne • Raelene Nangala Jigili, • Rhonda Larry Nungarray Navigating collaborative practice - the role of evaluation in brokering shared outcomes 106Anthea Rutter • Caroline Crothers Valuing First Nations Cultures in Cost-Benefit Analysis 103Christina Kadmos • Shaun Cumming • Laura Faulkner

1:30pm AEST

Envisioning and Encountering Relational Aboriginal and Pacific Research Futures 105Martina Donkers • Lisa Faerua • Nathan Sentance • David Lakisa • Alli Burness Revitalising Survey Engagement: Strategies to Tackle Low Response Rates 103Squirrel Main • Hannah Nguyen

2:30pm AEST

Navigating a path to system impact: designing a strategic impact evaluation of education programs 104Duncan Rintoul • Amanda Reeves • Eunice Sotelo If treaty is like a marriage, state evaluation needs sustained deep work: Evaluation and Victoria's First Peoples Treaty 105Martina Donkers • Kate Nichols • Milbert Gawaya When "parachuting in" is not an option: Exploring value with integrity across languages, continents and time zones 106Melinda Mann • Julian King • Adrian Field

4:30pm AEST

Wayfinding for integrating social justice and culturally responsive and equitable evaluation practices in meta-evaluation: Learning from the UN evaluation quality assessments. 101-102Carlos Rodriguez • Sandra Ayoo Developing a Tool for Measuring Evaluation Maturity at a Federal Agency 105Marwan El Hassan • Michael Amon • Anthony Alindogan • Claudia Oke

5:00pm AEST

Failing your way to better practice: How to tread carefully when things aren't going as planned 105Marwan El Hassan • Stephanie White

10:30am AEST

Commissioning evaluations - finding the way from a transactional to a relational approach Plenary 1Vanessa Hood • Eleanor Williams • Skye Trudgett • George Argyrous • Josephine Norman • Luke Craven • Kristy Hornby

11:00am AEST

Learn, evolve, adapt: Evaluation of climate change and disaster risk reduction programs 104Su-Ann Drew • Justine Smith

11:30am AEST

Bringing the "human" into measurement: From in-depth inquiry to systemic change 104Su-Ann Drew • Julia Suh • JESSICA LEEFE Navigating complex government reforms: a tool to examine program theory. How complete and relevant is government program theory? 105Charlie Tulloch • Nerida Rixon

12:00pm AEST

Systems evaluation to the rescue!: How do we use systems evaluation to improve societal and planetary wellbeing? 104Su-Ann Drew • Kristy Hornby • Tenille Moselen

2:30pm AEST

A long road ahead: Evaluating long-term change in complex policy areas. A case study of school active travel programs in the ACT 106Carolyn Wallace • Mallory Notting

3:30pm AEST

Reflections by a non-analyst on the use of state-wide data sets and modelled data in evaluation 104Claire Grealy • Gabby Lindsay-Smith The evolution of evaluation: Retracing our steps in evaluation theory to prepare for the future 104Claire Grealy • James Ong

11:00am AEST

Participatory Analysis Workshops: a novel method for identifying important factors across diverse projects 104Phillip Belling • Martina Donkers • Ellen Wong • Jade Maloney Impact evaluation: bringing together quantitative methods and program theory in mixed method evaluations 101-102Allison Clarke • Peter Bowers • Vera Newman

11:30am AEST

The ACT Evidence and Evaluation Academy 2021-24: Lessons learned from a sustained whole-of-government ECB effort 105Robert Sale • Duncan Rintoul • George Argyrous • Narina Dahms

12:00pm AEST

Designing a baseline research for impact : The SKALA experience 101-102Allison Clarke • Johannes Prio Sambodho If the destination is improvement, recommendations are the signpost 106Rachel George • Larissa Brisbane • Laura Baker

1:30pm AEST

Finding ways to empower multicultural survivors of violence through evaluation: strategies, learnings and reflections 104Kira Duggan • Lydia Phillips Learning from the past: Reflections and opportunities for embedding measurement and evaluation in the national agenda to end Violence against Women and Children 106Milena Gongora • Lucy Macmillan • Tessa Boyd-Caine • Micaela Cronin • Tiffiny Lewin Investment logic mapping or evaluation logic modelling? Similarities and differences. 103Carina Calzoni • Charlie Tulloch Program Evaluation Fundamentals in the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure: An eLearning course on evaluation 103Carina Calzoni • Anabelle (Pin-Ju) Chen Squaring up with rubrics 103Carina Calzoni • Josh Duyker