Cluster | Statement | Bridging Value | |
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1. Evaluator qualities | |||
1 | Observe with both eyes, listen with both ears and speak little. | 0.14 | |
13 | Be humble, empathic, open, and honest. | 0.14 | |
61 | Have an open-mind in engaging or working with Indigenous people. | 0.16 | |
2. Knowing yourself as an evaluator in a Mãori context | |||
10 | Use culturally appropriate evaluation methods. | 0.03 | |
17 | Correctly pronounce the Indigenous language of respective Indigenous communities. | 0.08 | |
89 | Working in ways that are culturally appropriate. | 0.08 | |
3. Securing and honouring community ‘buy-in’ | |||
84 | Outcome measures are defined with the community to capture what is important to the community as well as the funding body. | 0.26 | |
72 | Engage community in planning and co-creation of the evaluation framework/model. | 0.28 | |
94 | Negotiate and be flexible about timeframes in order to respect community priorities, events, and the changing availability and other responsibilities of key informants. | 0.28 | |
4. Integrity of the evaluation & the evaluator | |||
35 | Dialogue between the Indigenous community and evaluator/s needs to be prioritised in preference to one- way conversation. | 0.20 | |
66 | Build the principles of respect, reciprocity, and responsiveness into the evaluation. | 0.20 | |
83 | See evaluators taking the time to understand issues the Indigenous partners are facing, outside of the evaluation; it shows a respectful attitude towards the partners. | 0.21 | |
5. Prioritising Mãori community interests in evaluation commissioning | |||
98 | Establish an Indigenous governance structure so the evaluation project can be discussed at all stages with the community. | 0.24 | |
26 | Facilitate engagement with the Indigenous ‘owners’ of the evaluation and identify their values and worldviews against which to judge the evaluative data. | 0.25 | |
65 | Ensure from the outset of planning that commissioners engage and consult with Indigenous people. | 0.28 | |
6. Prioritising community interests in the project and evaluation plan | |||
87 | What Indigenous people value about the program/initiative is reflected in the evaluation questions and plan. | 0.21 | |
104 | The evaluation plan and approach build on the strengths of Indigenous people and culture. | 0.21 | |
75 | Consider and address whether scope is built into the evaluation to engage all stakeholders to ensure the evaluation benefits Indigenous people. | 0.24 | |
7. Authentic evaluation methods | |||
106 | The methods used to collect data are life affirming and meaningful for Indigenous evaluators and/or participants. | 0.00 | |
46 | Use measurement tools that have been developed by/for and validated within Indigenous populations. | 0.05 | |
27 | The evaluation approach must reflect an understanding of the Indigenous community/group’s history and context, issues, worldview and strengths, including the impact of colonisation. | 0.05 | |
8. Honouring evaluation results | |||
67 | Provide a publication space for Indigenous voices with Indigenous reviewers (culturally safe peer review). | 0.12 | |
7 | Evaluation findings are adequately communicated to policy makers in the interests of effecting positive change. | 0.17 | |
6 | A reflective process takes place post evaluation with Indigenous communities to enable key findings to be implemented to strengthen their work and achieve their goals. | 0.27 | |
9. Conduct of evaluation | |||
20 | Commissioners and providers of evaluation must ensure a good relationship is built with the Indigenous group (being evaluated) and that the Indigenous group is happy to proceed with the evaluation, and if not, they have other options/ evaluation teams provided to them. | 0.33 | |
40 | Commissioners of evaluation need to be mindful of how they interact with the Indigenous community; they need to communicate in ways that Indigenous communities feel comfortable responding to. | 0.50 | |
79 | Indigenous stakeholders own and control the intellectual property arising from the evaluation. | 0.52 | |
10. Prioritising Mãori interests | |||
42 | Must be Indigenous led or at the very least Indigenous people in positions of equal power as non-Indigenous people. | 0.64 | |
47 | No funding for evaluations should be given to organisations which do not employ Indigenous people in senior positions for the evaluation. | 0.70 | |
58 | Consult and negotiate monetary compensation with Indigenous people and organisations who have contributed to the evaluation. | 0.79 | |
11. Mãori capability and capacity building | |||
22 | Recognise and respect Indigenous evaluation capability. | 0.53 | |
82 | Train local Indigenous people to work on the evaluation. | 0.56 | |
77 | Include opportunities for Indigenous capacity building in the program and the evaluation. | 0.61 |