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aes19 International Evaluation Conference

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Opening plenary: Welcome to Country, followed by Tracy Westerman "Without measurability there is no accountability. Why we are failing to gather evidence of what works"

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Plenary 2: David Fetterman "Empowerment Evaluation: a powerful stakeholder involvement approach fit for the times"

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Digital Disruption - the next industrial revolution is here. What does this all mean for evaluators?

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Necessary components of a theory of change for system level interventions

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Contribution analysis: Evaluating the impact of intensive family services, applying theory in a real-world context.

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Innovation in government program evaluation

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Applying Systems Evaluation Theory

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Frameworks for program evaluation: considerations on research, practice and institutions

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The evaluation box needs more pictures: A multidisciplinary approach to reducing words and numbers for evaluation capacity building (ECB)

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Bringing the voice and knowledge of indigenous people and communities to evidence building and evaluation in a way that empowers

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The Consolations of Evaluation Theory

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Making the numbers count: Being evaluation ready for administrative data analysis

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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it

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Beyond co-design to co-evaluation: Reflections on collaborating with consumer researchers

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Out of the box and in country: Tracking stories to collaboratively develop and evaluate an Indigenous-led wellbeing innovation in remote Australia

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Empathy mapping - Discovering what they value

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Yuwaya Ngarra-li: Evaluating an Aboriginal community-led partnership working towards systemic change in Walgett, NSW

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How can implementation quality be evaluated? An example from a pilot initiative in Victorian child and family services.

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Integrating Behavioural Insights into Evaluation

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A Practical Application of a Realist Synthesis Method

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Machine-assisted qualitative analysis in Evaluation

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Maximising Effectiveness of "Evaluation to Policy Making " Process

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A trauma informed approach to capturing the voices of vulnerable children in Out-of-Home-Care evaluation

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Does empowerment evaluation work? Findings from a case-study

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Plenary 4: Gary VanLandingham "Evaluation in the age of evidence-informed policy-making -- opportunities, challenges and paths forward"

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Plenary 3: What’s beyond the box of program evaluation and what does this mean for us?

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Rubrics - a tool for unboxing evaluative reasoning

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From impact evaluation to evaluating with impact: Trialling a new approach to increase uptake of evaluation results

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Internal Evaluation Capacity Building: Unpacking what works in a (very) large government department

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The challenges of establishing and growing an internal evaluation unit: Experiences from two large state government departments

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Communities of Practice, mentoring and evaluation advice: using soft power approaches to build capacity

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Lessons learned co-designing a program and its evaluation in an emerging policy landscape

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Using Program Design Logic to manage the risk of program failure

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"Catching the MEL bug": Using an evaluation needs assessment to unpack evaluation capacity

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Designing Evaluations for Policy Coherence: The Differentiated Support for School Improvement Case

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Learning from feminist economics to measure what counts to women

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Bringing values into evaluation: A tool for practitioners

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Plenary 5: Jane Davidson "Unboxing the core like our lives depend on it – because they do"

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Closing plenary: Evaluation, un-boxed

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Unpacking the competencies - among commissioners, managers and evaluators

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Evaluating system change: Exploring how project innovations transform business as usual

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Un-boxed: Developmental evaluation's great strength and ultimate challenge

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A Primer on Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in Evaluation

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Evaluation: What is the value in the box?

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Value for Investment: unboxing a transdisciplinary approach to valuing

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Unboxing the Inquiry - the Independent Inquiry into the Australian Public Service and its implications for evaluation

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Design tips for visualising your data

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Inside, outside, all around: Three perspectives on evaluation capacity building

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Getting past the imposter syndrome: you don't have to be an expert to help build evaluation capacity in your organisation.

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Participatory Action Research - An approach for evaluators to discover and celebrate community strengths