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Monday
, September 4
Ballroom - first floor
09:00 •
Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Sandra Mathison "Does Evaluation contribute to the public good?"
16:30 •
Plenary two: Gill Westhorp "The practicality of good theory"
Derwent Room – first floor
11:00 •
Using evaluation to influence policy and practice: Improving the Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour Service in New Zealand
11:30 •
The benefits of independence to the use of findings for the evaluation of a long-term biodiversity monitoring program.
12:00 •
The Engagement of Youth in Program Evaluation: The Results of a Scoping Review
13:30 •
Evaluation-based advice with uncertain evidence: Examples from program and policy evaluations
14:00 •
A realist approach to evaluating the rationales and practices of collaborative governance
14:30 •
Complex evaluations in the political context: Designing an evaluation framework for a whole-of-government reform program
15:30 •
Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Recommendations and Getting Them Implemented
Exhibition Hall, ground floor
18:30 •
Welcome cocktail reception with e-Poster presentation
Fitzroy Room – first floor
11:00 •
In the deep end? Evaluation 101 for new evaluators
12:00 •
Hybrid evaluation in science organisations. A shared experience
13:30 •
Testing value for money: Two case studies from a Pacific gender equality program
14:30 •
Building on established community development theories to enhance the rigour and utility of program evaluation: a case study of the Fiji Community Development Program
15:30 •
What is Evaluation? Strengthening our Capital through Self-Definition
Murray Room – first floor
11:00 •
Policy Logic: Creating policy and evaluation capital in your organisation
12:00 •
He Kāinga Kōrerorero participatory evaluation
13:30 •
Evaluating innovation–the start of a conversation…
14:00 •
Using innovative methods in evaluation - what is needed?
15:30 •
Belling the Cat - Commissioning for outcomes and evaluating place-based initiatives
Sutherland Theatrette – ground floor
11:00 •
Evaluation in the round: A 360-degree view of evaluation in educational reform
13:30 •
Engaging Complexity: Developmental Evaluation in Remote Indigenous Australia
14:30 •
Supporting country ownership of development outcomes: How monitoring and evaluation in a public-private partnership can contribute to evaluation capital
15:30 •
Developmental evaluation: An emerging practice for informing policy
17:30 •
AES 2017 Annual General Meeting
Swan Room – first floor
11:00 •
Building evaluation capital in government
11:30 •
Improving Validity: Asking the Right Questions in Evaluations
12:00 •
Evaluation Capacity Building and Social Capital
13:30 •
The inside narrative: evaluation service and blueprint design.
14:00 •
Evaluating large scale education reform in the delivery of initial teacher education in Australia.
14:30 •
Towards a more strategic and holistic system for evaluating public policies and programs
15:30 •
Strengthening evaluation through evaluation: Driving improvement in the Australian aid program
16:00 •
Balancing learning and accountability: building an effective internal evaluation function for Australia's foreign aid program
Torrens Room – first floor
11:00 •
Building the evaluation capital of Australia's national Family and Children service sector, towards improved client outcomes, services and systems, and collective social impact
11:30 •
Community Commissioned Evaluations: Taking downstream participation of communities to a new level
12:00 •
Evaluation of a settlement service delivery model for newly arrived refugees in Australia
13:30 •
Mobilising multiple knowledges to evaluate the effectiveness of Indigenous land; sea management in northern Australia.
14:00 •
Diverse identities, diverse design - Building an evaluation framework for two distinct program populations
14:30 •
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
15:30 •
The STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project: Moving forward the 'next' steps.
Tuesday
, September 5
Ballroom - first floor
08:30 •
Plenary three: Richard Weston "Evaluation is not life or death—it’s far more important than that"
16:00 •
Plenary four: Andy Rowe "Evaluation for the Anthropocene"
Derwent Room – first floor
09:30 •
Evaluation and the Indigenous voice: Core values for legitimising ethical conduct
11:00 •
Growing impact: challenges in understanding impact in Indigenous affairs. Building demand, identifying gaps and highlighting progress in organisational and sectoral evaluation capacity.
11:30 •
Building robust evaluation systems in Indigenous health: Examples from the Tackling Indigenous Smoking Programme Evaluation
12:00 •
What do we know about evaluation in Indigenous higher education contexts in Australia?
13:30 •
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 government.
14:00 •
Youth participation in evaluation: Promoting inclusivity and building evaluation capital
14:30 •
Family-centric evaluation for family led decision making: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Practice Reforms
Fitzroy Room – first floor
09:30 •
Supporting managers to use evaluators more effectively: A Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
11:00 •
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?
11:30 •
Who owns the data? Considerations of governance, ethics, access and use of data for evaluators in 2017
12:00 •
How to manage for results in 10 minutes using common evaluation tools
13:30 •
Professionalising evaluation - Propositions, tensions and opportunities
14:30 •
Professionalisation of evaluation: Possible pathways within the AES context
Murray Room – first floor
09:30 •
Intervention logic: putting the logic back in logic models
11:00 •
How to be a Front-end Champion: Five principles for building evaluation capital
11:30 •
Evaluating the success and failure of national policy reform: A meta-evaluation of Australia's National Mental Health Strategy (1992-2012)
12:00 •
From theory of hope to theory of change: learning from behaviour change practice to strengthen project design and evaluation
13:30 •
Chains of Logic: Overcoming Limitations of Program Theory and its Use in Evaluation
14:30 •
Repurposing substantive theories in evaluation: opportunities and risks in transferring formal theories into new domains.
Sutherland Theatrette – ground floor
09:30 •
Building evaluation capital in the environmental policy field: what do we have, what do we need?
11:00 •
Better by design: A framework for bridging design and evaluation
11:30 •
Stepping out: Evaluators working as designers
13:30 •
The Evolution of Evaluation in our Capital
14:30 •
The G.I. Joe Fallacy: Cognitive bias as a hook for engaging senior decision makers in evaluative thinking
Swan Room – first floor
09:30 •
Evaluation system longevity and permanence: Using scenario thinking to build resilient evaluation capital.
11:00 •
Building evaluation capability to improve educational outcomes for at risk children and young people
11:30 •
Concept mapping: results from the STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project
12:00 •
Working Towards Building an Evaluation System in NSW Health
13:30 •
Performance leadership: The key to strengthening evaluation systems and program outcomes
14:30 •
Evaluation and the enhanced Commonwealth performance framework: Opportunities for the evaluation community
Torrens Room – first floor
09:30 •
Mission Australia's Room to Grow Program Evaluation: Evaluation of an intervention for hoarding disorder and domestic squalor in central Sydney
10:00 •
Map-enabled experiential review: Enhancing the relevance of evaluation at the program delivery coalface
11:00 •
Applying a Theory of Change in a Developmental Evaluation project to influence system-level change in New Zealand's AgriculturaI Innovation System
11:30 •
Using developmental evaluation to strengthen the dissemination and use of quality improvement data from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander healthcare centres
12:00 •
Creating credible findings in evaluating a complex programme: The New Zealand Prime Minister's Youth Mental Health Project
13:30 •
Engaging with philanthropy: A funder's perspective on how to maximise the reach of your findings
14:00 •
Getting the balance right: The benefits of an integrated policy/economic approach to evaluation
14:30 •
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 Results.
15:00 •
Evaluation: What's the use?
Wednesday
, September 6
Ballroom - first floor
08:30 •
Plenary five: Dugan Fraser "Better stewardship of evaluation capital can help deepen democracy"
15:30 •
Plenary six: It’s the AES17 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge!
Derwent Room – first floor
09:30 •
Challenging heterosexist bias in evaluation practice
11:00 •
Exploring the potential relevance of Sen's capability approach to evaluation
11:30 •
Inclusive evaluation through video as data and output
12:00 •
One step removed: Making sense of evaluating a governance reform project for climate change and disaster risk management in the Pacific.
13:30 •
Power and political positioning in Indigenous evaluation: Exploring the relationship between developmental evaluation and cultural responsiveness in evaluation
14:00 •
Building a regional evaluation system for fisheries in the Pacific
14:30 •
How do we know that our work works? Building an evidence base and evaluation capital
Fitzroy Room – first floor
09:30 •
Promoting Evaluation Use by Exploring Evaluator Educative Roles
10:00 •
Generating evaluation capital: Meta-evaluations as 'compound interest' evaluations
11:00 •
How might we change the AES so it is more relevant to you?
12:00 •
Maximising use: lessons from evaluating New Zealand's Aid Programme in the Pacific
13:30 •
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 Return on Investment methodologies
14:00 •
How to publish in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia
Murray Room – first floor
09:30 •
I'm doing an impact evaluation, what evidence do I need?
11:00 •
Reviewing evaluation frameworks: A systematic approach
11:30 •
Messy work! Combining participatory action research and developmental evaluation approaches in remote NT Indigenous communities.
12:00 •
Social Capital: A reflection on the theory, implications and use in evaluation
13:30 •
Fidelity, contextualisation and sustainability: Demonstrating conceptual platforms in evaluation
14:30 •
Evaluation and the creativity of constraint
Sutherland Theatrette – ground floor
09:30 •
Embedding evaluation systems into government
11:00 •
Why Australia needs an Evaluator General
11:30 •
Invited panel: Evaluation in the context of current debates about a collapsing relationship between science and society
13:30 •
AES Fellows Forum: Resolving conflict in evaluation practice: stories and scars from the field
Swan Room – first floor
09:30 •
Dilemmas in Evaluation Practice of an Ethical Kind
11:00 •
The global political participation and leadership of women: Use of the ISE4GEMs approach to undertake a UN Women corporate evaluation
11:30 •
No more number-crunching! The 4E's approach to social return on investment
12:00 •
Making the most of your internal evaluation capital using reflections meetings
13:30 •
Evaluating the evaluation - Stories from the Community Development Program
14:30 •
Emotions, relationships, and politics between external evaluation consultants, program staff, and non-Indigenous organisational cultures in the conduct of evaluation of Indigenous programs
Torrens Room – first floor
09:30 •
Withdrawn
10:00 •
The fair price of causal information
11:00 •
Australia’s Priority Investment Approach to welfare and the Try, Test and Learn Fund
11:30 •
The Oxfam Asia MEL of Influencing Capacity Building Journey: A case study of evaluative capacity building in complex organisational and cultural contexts.
12:00 •
The Capacity Development Evaluation Framework: providing value to users.
13:30 •
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)
14:00 •
I'm an evaluator, not a magician: designing evaluable programs
14:30 •
Building an evidence-based social sector in New Zealand: How to increase the validity and visibility of evidence and evaluation in Government decision-making
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