Conference fees for the AES conference in Wellington are pretty hefty for many evaluators, so anyone eligible may want to check out the following offer:
The Australasian Evaluation Society is pleased to invite emerging Indigenous evaluators from Australia and New Zealand and emerging evaluators from South East Asia and the Pacific to apply for financial assistance to support their attendance at the 2010 AES International Conference. The AES will provide support with applications on request. Requests should be received no later than 21 May 2010
Some key things to note about the competencies are:
This is not a checklist of competencies that every evaluator should have ALL of in order to be ‘competent’; this is a list of competencies that all evaluators will have some of, but no one person will have all of.
Each evaluator and each evaluation consulting business needs to consider what strengths profile it has (and is aiming to develop). In other words, how do you position yourself as distinct from other evaluators or evaluation consulting firms in this country (or, internationally, if that’s the space you compete in)?
Each evaluation team (and each manager commissioning an evaluation) needs to think through what profile of competencies is required for a particular project and whether their (or, a proposing) evaluation team collectively has those strengths.
Although this list will be of some interest internationally, there are clearly some elements that are very specific to the Aotearoa context.
The key things that are very different between this and the many other evaluator competency lists that have been developed around the world are, in my view: (1) the ‘valuing’ piece, i.e. defining what outcomes should be considered ‘valuable’ and ‘important’ and how ‘quality’ is defined for a particular evaluation and (2) putting cultural values and worldviews right at the centre of not only the valuing piece, but also in defining what constitutes [culturally] appropriate approaches, methodologies, analysis, reporting, etc.
an overview summary table showing the main evaluator competency documents that have been developed around the world
short analyses of each of the competency documents reviewed, including a separate and quite substantial analysis on cultural competencies for evaluators
a discussion of some of the main issues to consider in how competencies are constructed/written
summaries of discussions about the Aotearoa context and what competencies are going to be particularly applicable and important here
This document is being released as background reading while we wait for the draft evaluator competencies from anzea to come out for wider consultation in April.
