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When my friends and family ask me what my job is, I say something along the lines of, “I work at a public policy consulting firm. We mostly evaluate government policies and programs, and we gather our data mostly through surveys and interviews.” Knowing that I majored in biology, they tend to follow this by… Read more
Like co-design and nudging, systems thinking is certainly one of the buzz words of our time. At the recent Australian Evaluation Society Conference, Michael Quinn Patton challenged evaluators to move beyond programs to systems, think globally, track interconnections, crack silos and understand interdependence; while Social Design Sydney’s September event centred on how systems thinking can… Read more
‘Agile’ has emerged as one of the latest buzzwords in Government Departments. But what does it mean to be agile, and can we do more agile evaluation? On Wednesday 2 May, Florent Gomez from the NSW Department of Finance and ARTD Partner Jade Maloney delivered a free lunchtime seminar in Sydney organised by the Australasian… Read more
For several years now, I’ve been getting more and more involved in service design, review and reconceptualization to respond to evolutions in the evidence base and the systems within which services operate. And, when I am designing an evaluation framework and strategy or conducting an evaluation, I tend not to be looking at programs, but… Read more
There are more than 410,000 Australians living with dementia; about 26,000 of whom have younger onset dementia (a diagnosis under the age of 65). By 2025, this is expected to increase to over 530,000. Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia and the greatest cause of disability in older Australians. This is… Read more
The findings of our evaluation of Youth Frontiers—a NSW-wide mentoring program—have been released by the Youth Participation & Strategy Unit in the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS). Overall, the evaluation found the program had an impressive reach across NSW and was achieving positive developmental outcomes for young people. However, it is not… Read more
The Framework sets out a nationally consistent approach to quality and safeguards for the NDIS to be introduced in 2018–19. This is needed to ensure that capability is built in the new market-based system, the rights of people with disability are upheld, the benefits of the NDIS are realised, and that people have access to… Read more