Ngaa-bi-nya in action

Interest in Ngaa-bi-nya is growing. We have used it in two completed research projects:

Ngaa-bi-nya in action

Megan has used it with others:

  • Denny-Smith, G., Williams, M. & Loosemore, M. (2020). Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people. Construction Management and Economicsdoi.org/10.1080/01446193.2020.1795217
  • Denny-Smith, G., Sunindijo, R. Y., Loosemore, M., Williams, M. & Piggott, L. (2021). How construction employment can create social value and assist recovery from COVID-19. Sustainability, 13:2, p. 988. doi.org/10.3390/su13020988

Others to use in include:

  • Bennie, A., Marlin, D. Apoifis, N. & White, R.L. (2019). We were made to feel comfortable and … safe’: co-creating, delivering, and evaluating coach education and health promotion workshops with Aboriginal Australian peoples, Annals of Leisure Research, dot.org/10.1080/11745398.2019.1622430
  • Butcher, L., Day, A., Kidd, G. Miles, D., Stanton, S. (2020). Community engagement in youth justice program design. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 53(3).
  • Flemington, T., Lock, M., Shipp, J., Hartz, D., Lonne, R., & Fraser, J. A.  Cultural safety and child protection responses in hospitals: A scoping review. International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice. (2021). doi.org/10.1007/s42448-020-00065-3

Ngaa-bi-nya was cited in the Indigenous Evaluation Strategy[1]Productivity Commission. (2020). Indigenous Evaluation Strategy. Canberra: Productivity Commission. and has been cited in Australia [2]Beks, H. Binder, M., Kourbelis, C., Versace, V. (2019). Geographical analysis of evaluated chronic disease programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the primary healthcare setting: … Continue reading[3]Cargo, M., Potaka-Osborne, G. Cvitanovic, Warner, L., Clarke, S., Judd, J. Chakraborty, A., Boulton, A.  Strategies to support culturally safe health and wellbeing evaluations in Indigenous settings … Continue reading[4]Cvitanovic, L. (2018). Collaborative, participatory and empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder involvement approaches. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 29(3) DOI: 10.1002/hpja.193.[5]Denny-Smith, G, Loosemore, M. Barwick, D., Piggott, L. (2019). Decolonising Indigenous social impact research using community-based methods. September 2019. Conference: Proceedings of the 35th ARCOM … Continue reading[6]Denny-Smith, G., Williams, M., Loosemore, M. (2020). Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people. Construction Management and Economics 38(2):1-19 DOI: … Continue reading[7]Lawton, A. E., Hamilton, O., Jackson, C. (2020). Aboriginal Family Planning Circle evaluation: Empowering Aboriginal communities in evaluating and future-proofing Aboriginal-led community programmes. … Continue reading[8]Luke, J. N., Ferdinand, A. S., Paradies, Y., Chamravi, D., Kelaher, M. (2020). Walking the talk: evaluating the alignment between Australian governments’ stated principles for working in Aboriginal … Continue reading[9]McCausland, R. (2019). ‘I’m sorry but I can’t take a photo of someone’s capacity being built’: Reflections on evaluation of Indigenous policy and programmes. Evaluation Journal of … Continue reading, in Canada[10]DeLancey, D. (2020). Indigenous evaluation in Northwest Territories: Opportunities and challenges. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 34(3). DOI: 10.3138/cjpe.68837 and in Mexico[11]Sarmiento, I., Zuluaga, G., Paredes-Solís, S., Andersson, N. (2020). Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue: Lessons from participatory research in Mexico. British … Continue reading.

References

References
1 Productivity Commission. (2020). Indigenous Evaluation Strategy. Canberra: Productivity Commission.
2 Beks, H. Binder, M., Kourbelis, C., Versace, V. (2019). Geographical analysis of evaluated chronic disease programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the primary healthcare setting: a scoping review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports 16(12):2268-2278. DOI: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2017-003833
3 Cargo, M., Potaka-Osborne, G. Cvitanovic, Warner, L., Clarke, S., Judd, J. Chakraborty, A., Boulton, A.  Strategies to support culturally safe health and wellbeing evaluations in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand: a concept mapping study. International Journal for Equity in Health (2019) 18:194
4 Cvitanovic, L. (2018). Collaborative, participatory and empowerment Evaluation: Stakeholder involvement approaches. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 29(3) DOI: 10.1002/hpja.193.
5 Denny-Smith, G, Loosemore, M. Barwick, D., Piggott, L. (2019). Decolonising Indigenous social impact research using community-based methods. September 2019. Conference: Proceedings of the 35th ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2019: Leeds, UK
6 Denny-Smith, G., Williams, M., Loosemore, M. (2020). Assessing the impact of social procurement policies for Indigenous people. Construction Management and Economics 38(2):1-19 DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2020.1795217
7 Lawton, A. E., Hamilton, O., Jackson, C. (2020). Aboriginal Family Planning Circle evaluation: Empowering Aboriginal communities in evaluating and future-proofing Aboriginal-led community programmes. Evaluation Journal of Australasia 20(1):23-33 DOI: 10.1177/1035719X20911332
8 Luke, J. N., Ferdinand, A. S., Paradies, Y., Chamravi, D., Kelaher, M. (2020). Walking the talk: evaluating the alignment between Australian governments’ stated principles for working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health contexts and health evaluation practice. BMC Public Health 20:1856.
9 McCausland, R. (2019). ‘I’m sorry but I can’t take a photo of someone’s capacity being built’: Reflections on evaluation of Indigenous policy and programmes. Evaluation Journal of Australasia 19(2):64-78. DOI: 10.1177/1035719X19848529
10 DeLancey, D. (2020). Indigenous evaluation in Northwest Territories: Opportunities and challenges. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 34(3). DOI: 10.3138/cjpe.68837
11 Sarmiento, I., Zuluaga, G., Paredes-Solís, S., Andersson, N. (2020). Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue: Lessons from participatory research in Mexico. British Medical Journal Global Health 5(9). DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002488

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