Conference Program

Arrival tea & coffee available

Welcome to Country

Across Day 1, we will be working with Skye Bullen & Liz Skelton in the role of provocateur.

Skye & Liz will be bringing a ‘balcony’ perspective, making observations on the cultural and adaptive leadership work being raised. They will facilitate participants engagement with the conference content from these different perspectives:

Liz Skelton will provide observations & interpretations on the sessions from the lens of adaptive leadership, asking what leadership questions are raised

Skye Bullen will provide observations & interpretations on the sessions through the lens of Indigenous evaluation practice, asking what cultural perspectives need to be considered

Speakers:Kerry Graham, Dr Jessica Dart, Kate McKegg, Nan Wehipeihana

• What is systems change and why is it needed?
• Why is it different to the traditional ways of doing social change?
• What is the role of evaluation?

Convenor: Kerry Graham

Panellist:Mark Cabaj, Kate McKegg, Zazie Tolmer

The vision of East Kimberly Empowered Communities is for enduring and effective Aboriginal-led reform, which transfers power and responsibility to Aboriginal people and creates opportunity for the social, cultural and economic development of our children and families. In this session, Des Hill, Chairperson of East Kimberly Empowered Communities will share how this systems change work has unfolded over time. Christy Hawker, the backbone leader, will share the role of data, learning and evaluation along the way.

Convenor: Nan Wehipeihana

Facilitators::Desmond Hill, Christy Hawker

Co-evaluation is a type of participatory evaluation that involves putting partners and community at the centre of the evaluation process. It is a natural partner to co-design and is well suited to evaluating initiatives that have been designed by or together with community and for partnership settings.

Co-evaluation draws on several established and tested methods of participatory evaluation, including Collaborative Outcomes Reporting and Most Significant Change technique, but also offers a few new twists to adapt it for systems change endeavours. In particular, it includes some framing around evaluating each other in a partnership setting.

In this session you’ll learn what co-evaluation is and the 5 key implementation steps by unpacking a case study from GROW with Kerry Farrance. Growing Regional Opportunities for Work (GROW) is a long term regional collective impact initiative that aims to tackle place based disadvantage using an economic development approach. In partnership with local business, government and community organisations, our region collectively commits to job creation through local social procurement, and linking jobs to disadvantaged job seekers.

Presenters:Dr Jessica Dart, Kerry Farrance

Snapshot presentations on learning options for Day 2.
• Principle based evaluation (Mark)
• Contribution analysis package (Mark)
• Developing high quality lessons learned (Mark)
• Strategic learning: intelligent failure learning loop (Mark)
• Developmental evaluation (Kate)
• Unlocking creativity for systems change evaluation (Kate)
• Critical heuristics (Kate)
• Managing evaluation in complexity (Kate)
• How to evaluate place-based approaches (Jess)
• Participatory evaluation parties (Jess)
• Most significant learning tool (Jess)
• Theory of change for systems change efforts (Zazie)
• Different ways to scale change (Fiona)
• Ways of working together (Nan)
• Role of big data in systems change (Linda)
• Case study on using collaboration health tool (Jack, CSI)

Mark Cabaj, Dr Jessica Dart, Kate McKegg, Zazie Tolmer, Nan Wehipeihana, Jack Noone , Fiona McKenzie, Linda O'Brien

From their role as provocateurs, Skye & Liz will facilitate a lively dialogue on the cultural and leadership questions and narrative emerging across the day.

Liz Skelton, Skye Bullen