Pub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1177/1035719x241236779
Clare Nolan, Rosie Bridge, Grace Holland, M. Whiteside, L. Baird, Suzanne Andrews, Anita Lee Hong, K. Tsey
Demand is growing in the public, private, and philanthropic sector for economic and quantifiable outcome data to guide decisions regarding the allocation of resources. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities in economically evaluating an Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing intervention, emphasising the value of utilising existing data. Driven by local and national Indigenous research priorities, the study involved a pilot Social Return on Investment analysis of the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing empowerment program. Underpinned by a collaborative mixed-methods approach, designed to mitigate data limitations and bolster trustworthiness, the analysis was undertaken across four stages, including a literature review to identify impacts and create a theory of change; co-design of an impacts framework; a targeted literature review to inform impact quantification and attribution; and calculation of the Social Return on Investment results. Results indicate that for every US dollar of investment in delivering Family Wellbeing between 2001 and 2021 in the Yarrabah Aboriginal community, US$4.60 of benefits were produced for participants and the community. The return is expected to be higher if important community and cultural impacts of the program were included in the monetisation. Data limitations and implications for future mixed methods economic evaluation of social interventions are explored.
{"title":"Utilising existing data for a pilot social return on investment analysis of the family wellbeing empowerment program: A justification and framework","authors":"Clare Nolan, Rosie Bridge, Grace Holland, M. Whiteside, L. Baird, Suzanne Andrews, Anita Lee Hong, K. Tsey","doi":"10.1177/1035719x241236779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719x241236779","url":null,"abstract":"Demand is growing in the public, private, and philanthropic sector for economic and quantifiable outcome data to guide decisions regarding the allocation of resources. This paper explores the challenges and opportunities in economically evaluating an Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing intervention, emphasising the value of utilising existing data. Driven by local and national Indigenous research priorities, the study involved a pilot Social Return on Investment analysis of the Aboriginal Family Wellbeing empowerment program. Underpinned by a collaborative mixed-methods approach, designed to mitigate data limitations and bolster trustworthiness, the analysis was undertaken across four stages, including a literature review to identify impacts and create a theory of change; co-design of an impacts framework; a targeted literature review to inform impact quantification and attribution; and calculation of the Social Return on Investment results. Results indicate that for every US dollar of investment in delivering Family Wellbeing between 2001 and 2021 in the Yarrabah Aboriginal community, US$4.60 of benefits were produced for participants and the community. The return is expected to be higher if important community and cultural impacts of the program were included in the monetisation. Data limitations and implications for future mixed methods economic evaluation of social interventions are explored.","PeriodicalId":37231,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Journal of Australasia","volume":"27 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140409035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1177/1035719x241230835
John Guenther
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231226437
Andrew Leigh
The Australian Government has established the Australian Centre for Evaluation, with a mandate to conduct rigorous evaluations, including randomised trials. This approach draws heavily on the transformation of medicine. During the 20th century, medicine evolved into a discipline that is largely driven by evidence from clinical trials. Drawing appropriate lessons from health has the potential to substantially improve the equity and effectiveness of policymaking in Australia.
{"title":"The best medicine: Lessons from health for policy randomistas","authors":"Andrew Leigh","doi":"10.1177/1035719x231226437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719x231226437","url":null,"abstract":"The Australian Government has established the Australian Centre for Evaluation, with a mandate to conduct rigorous evaluations, including randomised trials. This approach draws heavily on the transformation of medicine. During the 20th century, medicine evolved into a discipline that is largely driven by evidence from clinical trials. Drawing appropriate lessons from health has the potential to substantially improve the equity and effectiveness of policymaking in Australia.","PeriodicalId":37231,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Journal of Australasia","volume":"19 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231220958
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231220979
Sandra Ayoo, Meghan Leeming, Stacy R Huff
The 2015 United Nation’s ‘Eval Year’ declaration heightened program evaluation’s significance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, uncertainties persist regarding evaluating high-quality evaluations and addressing social justice concerns in meta-evaluations. The field lacks consensus on both conducting meta-evaluation and the standards to use. To address this, we reviewed meta-evaluation literature, mapped the American Evaluation Association’s foundational documents with the United Nations Evaluation Group’s Norms and Standards to explore their intersectionality on social justice, and analysed 62 United Nations Population Fund evaluation reports alongside their management responses. Our findings indicate that addressing social justice concerns in meta-evaluation is contingent on context rather than established standards. Thus, it’s crucial for evaluators to prioritise social justice in evaluation design and implementation, and to select quality assurance tools that match the evaluation context and professional association guidelines, especially in the absence of standardised guidelines.
{"title":"Meta-evaluation: Validating program evaluation standards through the United Nations Evaluation Quality Assessment (EQAs)","authors":"Sandra Ayoo, Meghan Leeming, Stacy R Huff","doi":"10.1177/1035719x231220979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719x231220979","url":null,"abstract":"The 2015 United Nation’s ‘Eval Year’ declaration heightened program evaluation’s significance in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, uncertainties persist regarding evaluating high-quality evaluations and addressing social justice concerns in meta-evaluations. The field lacks consensus on both conducting meta-evaluation and the standards to use. To address this, we reviewed meta-evaluation literature, mapped the American Evaluation Association’s foundational documents with the United Nations Evaluation Group’s Norms and Standards to explore their intersectionality on social justice, and analysed 62 United Nations Population Fund evaluation reports alongside their management responses. Our findings indicate that addressing social justice concerns in meta-evaluation is contingent on context rather than established standards. Thus, it’s crucial for evaluators to prioritise social justice in evaluation design and implementation, and to select quality assurance tools that match the evaluation context and professional association guidelines, especially in the absence of standardised guidelines.","PeriodicalId":37231,"journal":{"name":"Evaluation Journal of Australasia","volume":"7 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231217335
Ralph Renger, Jessica Renger, Melanie T Pescud, Richard N. Van Eck, M. Basson, Jirina Renger
This article focuses on evaluating the emergent properties of complex interventions that operate and function as systems. After defining key terms, four suppositions of emergence are presented. The suppositions are based on the authors’ reflections on evaluating several complex interventions using a systems approach. Supposition 1 posits that there is an operational emergent property, paralleling the theory-driven evaluation concept of implementation theory noted by Carol Weiss. Supposition 2 suggests that every complex intervention also has a functional emergent property that speaks to the effectiveness of the intervention. Several important distinctions between a functional emergent property and the long-term outcomes derived based on a reductionist worldview are noted. Supposition 3 builds on the work of Chalmers to posit that it is possible for a complex intervention to simultaneously have more than one operational emergent property and more than one functional emergent property. Supposition 4 is grounded in the system definition to propose that operational emergence is a prerequisite for functional emergence. Suppositions by definition require proof to become theories. The article calls for evaluators to share whether their experiences support these suppositions and encourages investments in evaluation research to test them.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231185286
J. Guenther
Our September 2023 issue of the Evaluation Journal of Australasia offers articles from Australian, Canadian and New Zealand contexts. They offer implications for evaluation practice and partnerships, with a particular focus on public/allied health and community-based program implementation. As I read these articles, I see how the authors are grappling with ‘ getting evaluation right ’ , not just from a pragmatic and technical perspective but also from a philosophical and ethical perspective. The practice article by Katina D ’ Onise and Katherine Pontifex provides an in-sightful re fl ection on a response to population health needs in the context of COVID-19 vaccination strategies. The urgency associated with various COVID-19 responses has led to innovations and rapid, fl exible approaches that otherwise might not have been considered (see also Iyamu et al., 2023; Kelly, 2023). And in this regard, D ’ Onise and Pontifex ’ s article demonstrates a similar dynamic. What is different here though is the application of the ‘ Lean start-up model ’ , which is designed to work with development of new products in uncertain contexts. The approach employed ‘ evaluative thinking ’ as a way of critically thinking and acting on evidence as it rapidly emerges (see also Cole, 2023 in the last issue for a detailed discussion of this topic). As I read through the lessons learned, the bene fi t of the approach used lies in its ability to quickly respond in a rapidly changing environment to implement policy initiatives, which include an evidence base. However, there are risks, as there are with any innovation. Haste and authoritative mandates may result in corners being cut, which may compromise ethical imperatives. Nevertheless, one of the key learnings from this work is that evidence can be quickly generated where there is a need for an urgent response to a complex problem. The
我们2023年9月刊的《澳大拉西亚评价杂志》提供来自澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰的文章。它们为评估实践和伙伴关系提供了启示，特别侧重于公共/联合卫生和以社区为基础的项目实施。当我阅读这些文章时，我看到作者是如何努力解决“正确评估”的问题的，不仅是从实用主义和技术的角度，而且是从哲学和伦理的角度。Katina D ' Onise和Katherine Pontifex的实践文章对在COVID-19疫苗接种战略背景下应对人口卫生需求进行了深刻的反思。各种COVID-19应对措施的紧迫性导致了创新和快速灵活的方法，否则这些方法可能不会被考虑(另见Iyamu等人，2023;凯利,2023)。在这方面，D ' Onise和Pontifex的文章展示了类似的动态。这里的不同之处在于“精益创业模式”的应用，该模式旨在与不确定环境下的新产品开发一起工作。该方法采用“评估性思维”作为一种批判性思维方式，并根据迅速出现的证据采取行动(参见科尔，2023年最后一期关于该主题的详细讨论)。在我阅读这些经验教训时，所采用的方法的好处在于它能够在快速变化的环境中迅速作出反应，实施政策举措，其中包括一个证据基础。然而，就像任何创新一样，风险也是存在的。匆忙和权威的命令可能会导致偷工减料，这可能会损害道德要求。尽管如此，从这项工作中得到的一个重要教训是，在需要对复杂问题作出紧急反应的地方，可以迅速产生证据。的
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231182433
Lucas Moore, Reno French
Over the past two decades there has been growing acknowledgement of the need to decolonise approaches to evaluation policy, programs and services impacting on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Action research methodologies have been identified as the most appropriate approach ( Evans et al., 2014 ). This article outlines how a community controlled peak body is utilising an action research approach guided by First Nations wisdom and knowledge to drive evaluation. Examination of two action research projects undertaken by Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) demonstrate how action research embodies the principles of self-determination and Indigenous Data Sovereignty in evaluative processes. The article also highlights how evaluative evidence informs new approaches to address the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in child protection. Project reflections suggest participants found the action research approach inclusive, participatory, and effective in assisting them to address critical practice and systemic issues. The importance of ensuring evaluative methodologies are meaningful for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was also highlighted.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/1035719x231179256
Alison Rogers, A. Gullickson
Integrating evaluation initiatives in organisations as part of routine operations to support organisational learning and development can be difficult; extant literature lacks detail on the factors enhancing sustainability. This article presents research undertaken with evaluation advocates attempting to embed evaluation in their Australian non-profit organisations. The research involved interviewing seventeen participants, four of whom also were the focus of organisational case studies. The researchers used social interdependence theory to understand participants’ strategies for embedding evaluation and found that some elements of cooperative teamwork were more prominent than others. Participants in high hierarchical positions, or those who had influence, worked intentionally and incorporated strategies that aligned with all five elements. Examples of those strategies and their use in context presented herein may help leaders and internal and external evaluators increase the likelihood of embedding evaluation in organisational systems.
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This practice article advances an ethical imperative for guiding collaborative approaches to evaluation with low incidence and underserved communities. We describe our evaluation processes for building transformative partnerships during a DeafBlind Support Services pilot program evaluation in Western Canada using collaborative approaches to evaluation. This program was designed to enable adults living with dual sensory loss to experience self-determined activities in the community that enhance resilience and belonging. Key features involve specialised Support Service Providers who assist DeafBlind community members with accessing and participating in essential community services and social, vocational, educational, and recreational activities. In presenting our co-generated evaluation insights, we advance an ethical imperative describing philosophical foundations, pragmatic actions, and political leadership for implementation of collaborative approaches to evaluation with a low incidence and underserved community.
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