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Building evaluation capital in government Swan Room – first floorSquirrel Main • Sarah Goswami Building the evaluation capital of Australia's national Family and Children service sector, towards improved client outcomes, services and systems, and collective social impact Torrens Room – first floorKatja Mikhailovich • Elizabeth Clancy • Reima Pryor Using evaluation to influence policy and practice: Improving the Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour Service in New Zealand Derwent Room – first floorAnne Redman • Sandra Collins

11:30 AEST

Community Commissioned Evaluations: Taking downstream participation of communities to a new level Torrens Room – first floorKatja Mikhailovich • Phillip Miller Improving Validity: Asking the Right Questions in Evaluations Swan Room – first floorSquirrel Main • David Roberts The benefits of independence to the use of findings for the evaluation of a long-term biodiversity monitoring program. Derwent Room – first floorAnne Redman • Helen Watts

12:00 AEST

Evaluation Capacity Building and Social Capital Swan Room – first floorSquirrel Main • Zita Unger Evaluation of a settlement service delivery model for newly arrived refugees in Australia Torrens Room – first floorKatja Mikhailovich • Kate Williams Hybrid evaluation in science organisations. A shared experience Fitzroy Room – first floorRick Cummings • Toni White He Kāinga Kōrerorero participatory evaluation Murray Room – first floorDiz McKinnon • Kate Averill The Engagement of Youth in Program Evaluation: The Results of a Scoping Review Derwent Room – first floorAnne Redman • Sarah Heath

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The inside narrative: evaluation service and blueprint design. Swan Room – first floorJames Smith • Kathleen Palmer • Nathaniel Pihama Mobilising multiple knowledges to evaluate the effectiveness of Indigenous land; sea management in northern Australia. Torrens Room – first floorClaire Grealy • Beau Austin Evaluating innovation–the start of a conversation… Murray Room – first floorAnne Markiewicz • Caroline Henwood • Kari Sann Evaluation-based advice with uncertain evidence: Examples from program and policy evaluations Derwent Room – first floorAnnie Weir • Martin Gould • Les Trudzik

14:00 AEST

Evaluating large scale education reform in the delivery of initial teacher education in Australia. Swan Room – first floorJames Smith • Edmund Misson • Amanda Stevenson • Anita Torr Diverse identities, diverse design - Building an evaluation framework for two distinct program populations Torrens Room – first floorClaire Grealy • Sara Dixon • Marc Gehrmann A realist approach to evaluating the rationales and practices of collaborative governance Derwent Room – first floorAnnie Weir • Rachel Eberhard

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Towards a more strategic and holistic system for evaluating public policies and programs Swan Room – first floorJames Smith • Mandy Charman • Jew-Chung Kon Action learning and the role of evaluation in enhancing in-flight program performance and shaping sustainable services: Insights and learning from the NSW Adoptions Taskforce Torrens Room – first floorClaire Grealy • Mark Galvin Building on established community development theories to enhance the rigour and utility of program evaluation: a case study of the Fiji Community Development Program Fitzroy Room – first floorKatja Mikhailovich • Catriona Flavel Supporting country ownership of development outcomes: How monitoring and evaluation in a public-private partnership can contribute to evaluation capital Sutherland Theatrette – ground floorDiane McDonald • Elizabeth Morgan • Chris Taput Complex evaluations in the political context: Designing an evaluation framework for a whole-of-government reform program Derwent Room – first floorAnnie Weir • Nerida Leal • Rhian Stack

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Strengthening evaluation through evaluation: Driving improvement in the Australian aid program Swan Room – first floorCheryl Durrant • Tracey McMartin

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Balancing learning and accountability: building an effective internal evaluation function for Australia's foreign aid program Swan Room – first floorCheryl Durrant • Dr Wendy Jarvie • David Slattery

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Mission Australia's Room to Grow Program Evaluation: Evaluation of an intervention for hoarding disorder and domestic squalor in central Sydney Torrens Room – first floorLynne Raw • Leah Cave • Joann Fildes

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Building evaluation capability to improve educational outcomes for at risk children and young people Swan Room – first floorLiz Smith • Zane Mather • Shelly Rao Growing impact: challenges in understanding impact in Indigenous affairs. Building demand, identifying gaps and highlighting progress in organisational and sectoral evaluation capacity. Derwent Room – first floorFiona Kotvojs • Kim Grey How to be a Front-end Champion: Five principles for building evaluation capital Murray Room – first floorKatherine Barnes • Anthea Rutter • Zita Unger What would we use and how would we use it? Can innovative digital technology be used to both enhance and evaluate wellbeing outcomes with highly vulnerable and disadvantaged young people? Fitzroy Room – first floorApril Bennett • Brian Collyer • Rhianon Vichta Applying a Theory of Change in a Developmental Evaluation project to influence system-level change in New Zealand's AgriculturaI Innovation System Torrens Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Toni White Better by design: A framework for bridging design and evaluation Sutherland Theatrette – ground floorCheryl Durrant • Matt Healey

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Concept mapping: results from the STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project Swan Room – first floorLiz Smith • Amohia Boulton • Margaret Cargo • Sharon Clarke • Jenni Judd • Lisa Warner Building robust evaluation systems in Indigenous health: Examples from the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Programme Evaluation Derwent Room – first floorFiona Kotvojs • Jessica Auciello • Alison Faure-Brac • Dr Penney Upton Evaluating the success and failure of national policy reform: A meta-evaluation of Australia's National Mental Health Strategy (1992-2012) Murray Room – first floorKatherine Barnes • Francesca Grace • Carla Meurk Using developmental evaluation to strengthen the dissemination and use of quality improvement data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare centres Torrens Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Alison Laycock

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Working Towards Building an Evaluation System in NSW Health Swan Room – first floorLiz Smith • Renee Fortunato • John Marshall • Mahendra Sharan From theory of hope to theory of change: learning from behaviour change practice to strengthen project design and evaluation Murray Room – first floorKatherine Barnes • Damien Sweeney How to manage for results in 10 minutes using common evaluation tools Fitzroy Room – first floorApril Bennett • Scott Bayley Creating credible findings in evaluating a complex programme: The New Zealand Prime Minister's Youth Mental Health Project Torrens Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Carolyn O'Fallon

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The value of incorporating Aboriginal cultural knowledge (human capital) into an Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service evaluation to deliver credible and useable findings to both community and governmen... Derwent Room – first floorBronwyn Rossingh • Carol Vale • Vladimir Williams Engaging with philanthropy: A funder's perspective on how to maximise the reach of your findings Torrens Room – first floorKathryn Dinh • Squirrel Main

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Youth participation in evaluation: Promoting inclusivity and building evaluation capital Derwent Room – first floorBronwyn Rossingh • Heidi Peterson Getting the balance right: The benefits of an integrated policy/economic approach to evaluation Torrens Room – first floorKathryn Dinh • Nicki Hutley • Poppy Wise

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Using evaluation findings as an asset to inform future strategic choices for organizational and country projects: Learning from the rich experience of Oxfam's Securing Rights Programme's Evaluation Methodology and... Torrens Room – first floorKathryn Dinh • Hilda Manokore • Roselyn Nyatsanza • Musa Sibindi

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Evaluation: What's the use? Torrens Room – first floorKathryn Dinh • Jade Maloney

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Withdrawn Torrens Room – first floorJo Manion Promoting Evaluation Use by Exploring Evaluator Educative Roles Fitzroy Room – first floorBronwyn Rossingh • Krystin Martens

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The fair price of causal information Torrens Room – first floorJo Manion • Andrew Hawkins Generating evaluation capital: Meta-evaluations as 'compound interest' evaluations Fitzroy Room – first floorBronwyn Rossingh • Bethia Burgess • Tracy McDiarmid

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Australia’s Priority Investment Approach to welfare and the Try, Test and Learn Fund Torrens Room – first floorMurray Kimber Exploring the potential relevance of Sen's capability approach to evaluation Derwent Room – first floorKathleen Palmer • Yvette Clarke Reviewing evaluation frameworks: A systematic approach Murray Room – first floorSandra Collins • Ghislain Arbour • Janet Clinton The global political participation and leadership of women: Use of the ISE4GEMs approach to undertake a UN Women corporate evaluation Swan Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Shravanti Reddy • Anne Stephens Why Australia needs an Evaluator General Sutherland Theatrette – ground floorIan Patrick • Nicholas Gruen

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The Oxfam Asia MEL of Influencing Capacity Building Journey: A case study of evaluative capacity building in complex organisational and cultural contexts. Torrens Room – first floorYuen Fun (Moe) Ip • Jayne Pilkinton Inclusive evaluation through video as data and output Derwent Room – first floorKathleen Palmer • Karen Fisher Messy work! Combining participatory action research and developmental evaluation approaches in remote NT Indigenous communities. Murray Room – first floorSandra Collins • James Smith • Cat Street No more number-crunching! The 4E's approach to social return on investment Swan Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Carolyn Hooper

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The Capacity Development Evaluation Framework: providing value to users. Torrens Room – first floorFiona Kotvojs One step removed: Making sense of evaluating a governance reform project for climate change and disaster risk management in the Pacific. Derwent Room – first floorKathleen Palmer • Keren Winterford Social Capital: A reflection on the theory, implications and use in evaluation Murray Room – first floorSandra Collins • Erin Blake Making the most of your internal evaluation capital using reflections meetings Swan Room – first floorRebecca Arnold • Renee Madsen Maximising use: lessons from evaluating New Zealand's Aid Programme in the Pacific Fitzroy Room – first floorSean Chung • Rosalind Dibley • Ned Hardie-Boys

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Integrated evaluation capital creation in a low capital environment: The design and use of an IT platform for evaluative management in the land of the unexpected (PNG) Torrens Room – first floorSara Webb • Kate Averill Power and political positioning in Indigenous evaluation: Exploring the relationship between developmental evaluation and cultural responsiveness in evaluation Derwent Room – first floorAnne Markiewicz • Lynne Rogers • Samantha Togni Evaluating the role for volunteers in public service reform and commissioning services: Case study of a volunteer home visiting service comprising the innovative combination of Randomised Control Trial and Social... Fitzroy Room – first floorDelyth Lloyd • Rebekah Grace • Les Hems

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I'm an evaluator, not a magician: designing evaluable programs Torrens Room – first floorSara Webb • Joanna Farmer • Caroline Tomiczek Building a regional evaluation system for fisheries in the Pacific Derwent Room – first floorAnne Markiewicz • Camille Donnat • Kristel Griffiths

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Building an evidence-based social sector in New Zealand: How to increase the validity and visibility of evidence and evaluation in Government decision-making Torrens Room – first floorSara Webb • Carolyn O'Fallon How do we know that our work works? Building an evidence base and evaluation capital Derwent Room – first floorAnne Markiewicz • Anne Crawford Evaluation and the creativity of constraint Murray Room – first floorDan Borg • Liam Downing Emotions, relationships, and politics between external evaluation consultants, program staff, and non-Indigenous organisational cultures in the conduct of evaluation of Indigenous programs Swan Room – first floorShelly Rao • Sissy Austin • Rebecca Harnett • Lauren Siegmann