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Over the summer of 2016 we provided on-site Evaluation Training in the Yukon at Carcross/Tagish First Nation and Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development. Other national organizations have requested this training in the near future.
Participants were thrilled with the training!
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“I left ‘Wearing an Indigenous Evaluation Lens’ feeling inspired and informed! This is a new era, with our Prime Minister saying, "It is time for a renewed, nation-to-nation relationship with Indigenous peoples." 'Business as usual' just won't cut it anymore for government evaluations. Andrea's course helped me gain awareness of the underlying assumptions of our current practice and generate ideas on how we might do evaluations differently. Andrea is a skilled educator who is a pleasure to learn from! I strongly recommend this course to anyone conducting evaluations relating to Indigenous peoples and communities.”
Evaluation Officer
Audit and Evaluation Sector
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)
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Our 4-Part Workshop Series:
- Wearing an Indigenous Evaluation Lens
- A workshop offering groundbreaking discussion on concrete ways to bring reconciliation into evaluation.
- Tools for Change and Indigenous-led Measurement
- Learn to develop and apply tools that are both interventions as well as knowledge-exchange devices.
- Building Wholistic Evaluation Strategies
- Examine the key categories that define an evaluation plan or framework from an Indigenous perspective, using reconciliation as a starting point.
- Taking Action: Creating a Learning Organization
- Employing appropriate tools to support the development of an Indigenous-led approach to program assessment and financial management.
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Upcoming Workshops
- February 6, 7, 8, 2017 – Workshops 1, 2, 3 in Ottawa
- February 13, 14, 15, 2017 - Workshops 1, 2, 3 in Toronto
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“There is a critical need to evaluate efforts through an Indigenous lens, considering all the factors that contribute both to causes and effects. Because many issues require longer-term interventions, this type of training is so important both for Indigenous groups and communities, and also policy and decision makers. I highly recommend this type of training.”
Kevin Barlow, CEO
Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council
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Special Promotion
Sessions and Development of Indigenous Evaluation Policy
$15,000.00 (Reg. $18,000.00) Price includes travel to most locations.
An Indigenous Evaluation Policy will fill a significant gap in your internal organization processes. The most significant barriers faced by organizations are the inability to aggregate the results of multiple sets of program data into a focused organizational model for Indigenous evaluation. Evaluation Policy enables you to make decisions on how evaluation will operate, who is in control of evaluation in your service area, and how and what will be answered. Having a unified set of evaluation practices and tools will allow you to see the bigger picture of where you are going as an entire team, rather than the piecemeal practice currently implemented when you are not directing the evaluation.
The goal of our Sessions and Development of Indigenous Evaluation Policy is to work with your team to develop a set of indicators which have grounding in Indigenous knowledge and that will provide the right data to lead your organization on a stronger path in meeting the ultimate goals of your agency. During these sessions we will orient your group of 5 - 25 persons on decolonizing evaluation and bringing forward methods of reconciliation into evaluation. We will assist you in Wearing an Indigenous Evaluation Lens and demonstrate steps in building your own Indigenous Evaluation Policy and Tools. We anticipate the sessions and completed Policy to take 1-2 months.
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