How to use Ngaa-bi-nya

Ngaa-bi-nya can be used throughout the evaluation process.

How to use Ngaa-bi-nya

While scoping the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • to see the theory of change from the perspective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • to challenge the assumptions and highlight the breadth of contemporary and historical external factors in the program logic
  • to think more clearly about the history of the policy or program which is being evaluated
  • to think broadly about stakeholders and audiences
  • to ask questions that are valued by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

While defining the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • think about what success looks like to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • think about what data needs to be collected
  • choose the most appropriate methods of data collection
  • consider the ethical implications of the evaluation more thoroughly.

While collecting and analysing data, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • collect data that is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • analyse it in ways that make sense to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

While reporting and transferring knowledge gained during the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • include in reports information that is valued by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • consider who to tell about the evaluation and its findings, and how
  • think broadly about the implications of the evaluation
  • influence policies and programs affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Ngaa-bi-nya can be used throughout the evaluation process.

While scoping the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • to see the theory of change from the perspective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • to challenge the assumptions and highlight the breadth of contemporary and historical external factors in the program logic
  • to think more clearly about the history of the policy or program which is being evaluated
  • to think broadly about stakeholders and audiences
  • to ask questions that are valued by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

While defining the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • think about what success looks like to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • think about what data needs to be collected
  • choose the most appropriate methods of data collection
  • consider the ethical implications of the evaluation more thoroughly.

While collecting and analysing data, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • collect data that is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • analyse it in ways that make sense to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

While reporting and transferring knowledge gained during the evaluation, using Ngaa-bi-nya can help evaluators:

  • include in reports information that is valued by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • consider who to tell about the evaluation and its findings, and how
  • think broadly about the implications of the evaluation
  • influence policies and programs affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The way we work

About rights, we rely on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples’ cultural and intellectual property rights, research ethics, and legislation about work health and safety, including cultural safety.

About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, we actively work with mobs’ holistic concept of health and wellbeing – all the social, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and environmental elements of life that affect individuals, families, communities, workforces, services, sectors and systems at which change is required. We are strengths-based, addressing deficit discourse, bias and racism. We are healing informed and trauma aware, and work on culturally relevant measures for success. Being community-led where possible we act in accordance with local protocols and ways of knowing, being, and doing. Respecting the diversity within and between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, we also think intergenerationally, being accountable by sharing knowledges and tools for others’ benefit.

About collaboration, we develop shared agreements to guide our work, often using tools we have developed for transparency and power-sharing. We often work in action cycles, to share insights early, adapt to change, and generate outcomes that partners can use to guide their ongoing work.

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