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Indigenous evaluation is fundamentally about how you 'see' the world (worldview) and how we know things (epistemology) and the nature of reality (ontology). To grow the space for Indigenous evaluation to thrive and flourish requires non-Indigenous evaluators to want to, be committed to, have a reason to see the world through alternate eyes, and do things differently. So why should evaluators care and why might they want to see and do things differently. For reasons of: (1) For reasons of social justice (Greene, House, Mertens) (2) To do no harm and practice within an ethic of care (3) For reasons related to multicultural validity (Kirkhart, La France, Nichols) Nan put forward a framework for reflecting on evaluation practice and ways of working with Indigenous peoples. The framework invites evaluators to reflect on their evaluation practice as a way of increasing participation by Indigenous peoples in evaluation. The framework can also be used as a tool to reflection on practice with all evaluation participants. The intellectual endeavor of decolonizing practice "has to set out ways to proceed through a colonizing world. It needs radical compassion that reaches out, that seeks collaboration and that is open to possibilities that can only be imagined as other things fall into place" (Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 2012, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, p.xii).
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A Vision for Indigenous Evaluation
Nan WehipeihanaKeynote Presentation
Australasian Evaluation Society 2013 Conference3 September, Brisbane, Australia
Ko Tararua te pae maunga
Ko Ohau te awa
Ko Tukorehe te marae
Ko Ngati Tukorehe te iwi
Tuku mihi
ki nga kaitiaki o tenei wahi e noho mai nei
ki nga tohunga me nga whare takuira
ki a koutou katoa no nga hau e wha
Who am I?(Ko wai au?)
My motivation to do evaluation…
Make a positive difference
for Māori
Surface Māori values
and perspectives
Tukorehe Marae Jan 2013, Wehipeihana whānau reunion
My values orientation in evaluation…
Manaakitanga
- An ethic of care
- An ethic of responsibility
Who I am
How I see the world
My evaluation practice
Tukorehe Marae Jan 2013, Wehipeihana whānau reunion
I seek to use the tools and the discipline of
evaluation
To critique policy, programs and service
provision by Government, by mainstream
non-Māori organisation and by tribes and
Māori organisation.
To contribute to a more just, equitable and
inclusive society
My values orientation in evaluation…
Tutu meets TatooA vision of Indigenous Evaluation for AES
Photo: Māori Television
Photo: Bigstock
My conception of Indigenous Evaluation
By Indigenous peoples
For Indigenous peoples
As Indigenous peoples
Non Indigenous participation is by invitation
No automatic or presumed right of participation
Photographer: Sharon Hawke
So how do we get there?
Paradigm shift
Fundamentally about how you view the world
Challenge
For non-Indigenous
Want to
Have a reason to
See the world differently
Through ‘alternate’ eyes
So why should I care – and how do I change?
Photographer: Sharon Hawke
Why should I care?
• Social justice – in the tradition of Greene (1997)
House and Howe (2002) and Mertens (2008)
• Ethic of care / do no harm – fundamental principle
• Heart of our practice as evaluators – multi cultural
validity (Kirkhart, 2005 & 2013)
How do I change?
Western paradigm Indigenous paradigm
Destination Journey
Evaluator as expert Community as expert
Power and controlEvaluator in control – sharing of power – Indigenous
control
Paradigm shift
Paradigm shift reflected in our practice, our
ways of working …
How would we know things are on track?
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
TO
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
TO
FOR
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
TO
FOR
WITH
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
TO
FOR
WITH
BY
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
TO
FOR
WITH
BY
AS
Western
imposed
“You decide”
Indigenous
Self-determination
“I decide”Invitational space
Co
nseq
uen
ces Good results
For Canberra (VfM)
For community
HarmNo change
Ineffective
Costly for taxpayers
Costly for community
Wehipeihana, N (2013) A vision for Indigenous evaluation presented at the AES Conference, 3 September, Brisbane
Tutu meets Tatoo1
A vision of Indigenous Evaluation for AES
Photo: Māori Television
Photo: Bigstock
Ihi Frenzy
Photo: Māori Television
Photo: Royal NZ Ballet, Photographer Ross Brown
Worlds Brilliantly Balanced
Photo: Mana Magazine 2001, Photographer Kerry Grant
Worlds Brilliantly Balanced
Photo: Mana Magazine 2001, Photographer Kerry Grant
Worlds Brilliantly Balanced
Photo: Mana Magazine 2001, Photographer Kerry Grant
Acknowledgements
• To my colleagues Kate McKegg, Judy Oakden and Julian
King
• To Lois-ellin Datta
• To my daughters Teia and Kahiwa Sebire
Nan Wehipeihana
