AES International Conference - Melbourne
3-7 September, 2006

Conference Theme:
Doing Evaluation Better

Wednesday 5 September 2007
8.00am	Registration Open
9.00am-9.45am	Opening Address
9.45am-10.45am	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Professor Hallie Preskill
10.45am-11.15am	Morning tea
11.15am-12.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 1
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Lynda Berends	Chris Milne	Ralph Straton	Anona Armstrong	Patricia Rogers
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Marie-Anne Selkirk Dancing with the Stars - Indigenous knowledge and customs to the forefront in evaluation	Bradley Shrimpton Gathering powerful and influental data with digital video	Peter Wilkins Monitoring and evaluation of a multi-agency response to homelessness	Faith Mahoney Adaptation of the Kakala model in the evaluation of health promotion programmes in Pacific Church Communities.	John Hanwright & Sharnie Makinson Evaluation, not just a matter of training or resources but a cultural change
12.00pm-12.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 2
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Chris Milne	Lynda Berends	Ralph Straton	Anona Armstrong	Patricia Rogers
	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Maggie Pressnell Balancing values in evaluation	Gamini Wijesekere Indigenous population data for evaluation and performance measurement: a cautionary note	Barbara Rosenstein & Rivanna Miller The Influence of Attribution on Perceived Impact in a Cross-Cultural Project in Israel	Wendy Hodge Learning about evaluation through evaluating learning	Gwyn Jolley Managing evaluation in a complex environment: evaluating the impact of health system governance change
	John Martin Fulfilling ASEAN dreams - how will we know?	Anne Redman Evaluation in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities - The ‘Breaking New Ground' Community Cultural Development pilot project		Nancy Sheehan Building a community of evaluation practice for Iwi Maori and Pacific people's providers of Child Youth and Family social services	Melisah Feeney Innovative participatory research and evaluation: Opening the door to Indigenous communities
12.45pm-2.15pm	Lunch & Poster Session
2.15pm-3.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 3
	Roundtable	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Ranjit Bhagwandas	Graeme Smith	Bradley Shrimpton	Cheryl Reed	Margaret MacDonald
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Liz Orr, Ray Burrows, Veronica Johns, Sharon Gollan, & Kathleen Stacey Practising cultural accountability within evaluation work in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts	Jenni Livingston Identifying flaws in program logic models and their use	Margo Northey Who's making a difference? Community Strengthening in Victoria	David Earle Evaluating aspirations - the case of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Strategy	Julie Foley Building Evaluators' Capacity
		Ross Conner Draw the Path: A new method for retrospective evaluation where participants create a logic model—without realizing it and with a lot of laughter, thought and learning	Linh Chi Nguyen Evaluation capacity development through practice - a case study from Vietnam	Judith Smith In search of rigour and relevance: reflections on national evaluations of primary care organizations in New Zealand and England	Paul Aylward Evaluation of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Community initiatives in South Australia: Juggling planning and practice
3.00pm-3.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 4
	Valuing	Describing	Roundtable	Influencing	Managing
	Bradley Shrimpton	Cheryl Reed	Deborah King	Graeme Smith	Margaret MacDonald
	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 4
	Vivienne Kennedy Privileging indigenous knowledge, practices and values in evaluation	Cate Jones Listening to and engaging with the Aboriginal community	Rick Cummings Challenges in Policy Evaluation	Pamela St Leger, Diane McDonald and Lyn Campbell Turning Good Intentions into Good Interventions: How Program Logic was Used to Influence Practice in the Back on Track and Bright Futures Programs.	Ilan Katz Involving practitioners in evaluative research - challenges and opportunities
	Janet Clinton What is the goodness of fit between the evaluator and knowledge broker?	Grant Pittams Evaluation in a Sensitive Area – identification and management of ethical issues in the area of sexual abuse		Anona Armstrong Assessment, Evaluation and Improvement of Board Performance	Colin Sharp The role of evaluation in Governance Standards.
3.45pm-4.15pm	Afternoon Tea
4.15pm-5.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 5
	Roundtable	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Jerome Winston	Francois Tsafack	Mathea Roorda	John Owen	Penny Hawkins
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 4
	Kirsty Fenton and Bernadette Swanson 'Onward and Outward' - the new phase in evaluation capability building in government organisations.	Maximilien Tereraho Cost-effectiveness analysis as a tool for program/policy development and evaluation in Human Services	Juthika Badkar Changes to the Pacific Access Category policy: Settlement outcomes of Tongan migrants	Rosemary McKenzie "Use it or lose it" - employing participatory approaches to maximise use of evaluation and influence policy in health promotion	Jessica Kenway Evaluating law and justice reform in Papua New Guinea - lessons learnt
		Ranjit Bhagwandas & Alison Angleton Data collection challenges with ‘difficult to enagage groups’	Paul Nichols New Forms of Aid and changing expectations for outcome monitoring in the Australian Aid program	Liz Orr, Ray Burrows, Veronica Johns & Merridy Malin Partnerships in Action Research Evaluation (PARE): Localising national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources and strengthening evaluation capacity	S. Theodore Demaisip Crafting the Philippines Australia Human Resource Development Facility (PAHRDF) Evaluation Framework and System: A Venture to Synthesise the Program Theories on Workplace Training and Institution Capacity Building
5.00pm-5.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 6
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Think Tank
	Francois Tsafack	Mathea Roorda	Penny Hawkins	John Owen	Rick Cummings
	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 1
	Marge Wong & Charles Rolleston Cultural beliefs have value also: working with participants whose values may differ from that of the evaluator.	Sandiran Premakanthan Results based Management Accountability Framework (RMAF): A Cost-Effective Way to Gathering Performance Results Evidence on Policy, Program and Initiative	Clare Dominick Healthy Eating Healthy Action: Oranga Kai Oranga Pumau (HEHA) Strategy evaluation - addressing complexity in public health policy evaluation	Marie Gervais The transfer of information during the evaluation process:	Larraine Larri Web 2.0 / Social Software - What is it and what are the implications for Evaluation theory and practice?
	Mona Fjellstrom The influence of evaluation in higher education – curriculum development through a deliberative responsive dialogue with stakeholders	Eileen Piggot-Irvine Triangulation in Action: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Professional Development Programme for Special Needs Teachers	Jo Norman What can a health services evaluator learn from social development thinking? Using Outcome Mapping to show attributions in the Victorian alcohol and drug context.	Meenakshi Sankar And around we go again?Getting off the linear policy cycle
5.45pm-6.45pm	Welcome Reception

Thursday 6 September 2007
8.30am	Registration Open
9.00am-10.00am	Keynote Address Professor Ray Pawson
10.00am-10.30am	Morning tea
10.30am-11.15am	Concurrent Sessions 7
	Valuing	Describing	Debates and Dilemmas	Influencing	Managing
	Sandiran Premakanthan	Bridget Roberts	Jessica Kenway	David Earle	Kim Brophy
	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Anthea Rutter Lessons Learnt: The Pursuit of Quality in the not-for-profit sector	Amelia Lake Report on stakeholder engagement during system redesign of a Hospital Admission Risk Program	Helen Goodman, Fiona Dunstand & Jacques Boulet Community Response-Ability in Bushfire Preparedness	Sally Faisandier The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006 and the challenge of monitoring government performance	Nic Oliver An Integrated Model for South Arican Development Programmes: RSA M&E and RBM
	Jerome Winston Performance Measures and Indicators -- Which Myth When: Philosopher's Stone, Emperor's New Clothes, Tower of Babel or Magic Pudding?	David Hall An evaluation of benefits of bilingual officers in providing training and advice to non-English Background Farmers		Donna Loveridge Can evaluation for learning and adaptive management increase our understanding of capacity development? Some reflections on experience in Papua New Guinea.
11.15am-12.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 8
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Roundtable
	Bridget Roberts	David Earle	Kim Brophy	Sandiran Premakanthan	Bradley Shrimpton
	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 1
	Debbie King Evaluation in Indigenous Communities	Carol Tutchener Doing HEAT better: The challenges of integrated action research evaluation	Catriona King Evaluation of the Tackling Weeds on Private Land  initiative on the Garden industry in Victoria	Marion Norton Better Outcomes from Better Decisions: Evaluation as a pillar of performance management	John Owen Strategies for Disseminating Evaluation Knowledge:Meet the Editors
	Elaine Hogard Using Communication Audits to Evaluate Organisational Communication	Geoff Gook Managing in Two World's - Victoria's Governance Training Program	Todd Sansness Integrating qualitative and quantitative information in an evaluation	Sally Plever Collaboratives - clinician driven evaluation
12.00pm-12.15pm	Short Break
12.15pm- 1.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 9
	Roundtable	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Jenny Neale	Ranjit Bhagwandas	Rick Cummings	Cheryl Reed	Penny Hawkins
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Penny Hawkins Roundtable on Evaluation in International Contexts	Sandra Collins, Sue Watson & Edith Chaney Engaging Parents and Whänau: an evaluation of the partnerships between schools and parents and whänau that positively impact on student learning, well-being and achievement	Kate Roberts Observing the right outcomes to be able to attribute	Riki Savaya Monitoring and Evaluation of Results in Social Welfare Agencies: The Place of People	Kate Nichols & Pham Thanh Hoa "NOT lost in translation", Challenges and opportunities for evaluation capability building in the agriculture research sector, Vietnam
		Julie McGeary Managing a complex evaluation – the case of “Our Rural Landscape”	Jill Charker Developing rigorous quasi-experimental designs for evaluation	Karin Schofield Supporting clients through action research:The Evaluation of the National Diabetes Support Team	Catherine Hurley Identifying the elephant in the room- evaluation as a circuit breaker in a conflicted context
1.00pm - 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm-2.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 10
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Nea Harrison	Pamela St Ledger	Graeme Harvey	Marie Gervais	Anthea Rutter
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 4
	Nan Wehipeihana Indigenous Evaluation: A Strategic Objective of the Australasian Evaluation Society. Reflections on the journey to date	David Thomas Client views about cultural competence in primary health care encounters	Dale Miller Application of a ‘clinical trial' methodology in an educational context: the WA middle schooling evaluation.	John Guenther The roles of the evaluator as objective observer and active participant. Are they mutually exclusive?	June Lennie The value of participatory action research for managing a collaborative ICT impact assessment project in Nepal
2.45pm-3.30pm	Concurrent Sessions 11
	Valuing	Roundtable	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Marie Gervais	Ralph Straton	Pamela St Ledger	Graeme Harvey	Anthea Rutter
	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Emma Slaytor Bringing results together – tears and triumphs in designing and implementing program evaluation with multiple evaluation inputs and stakeholder needs	Judith Woodland Evaluation adding to the knowledge base – or not?	Jacqualine Vajda Complexities of a multi-faceted evaluation to inform an annual national health campaign: short and intermediate measures	Claire Grealy New communities, new practices	Robert Lake Characteristics of well-managed evaluations - learnings from both sides
	Rhonda Chapman Describing the synergy between organisational values and development processes to enhance the assessment of NGO effectiveness.		Sue Goldman Evaluation rigour compared to evaluation relevance: describing program effectiveness and synthesizing self-assessment findings	Christine Wilson The consensus approach to service evaluation: Team composition and the value of team work	Angela Lee Contracting-out evaluations: Issues for the contracting agency
3.30pm - 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm-4.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 12
	Think Tank	Roundtable	Roundtable	Discussion Session	Think Tank
	Helen Goodman	Colin Sharp	Bridget Roberts		Bernadette Swanson
	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 4
	Anton Mischewski Conducting evaluations of complex, multi-site programs in the not-for-profit sector.	Colin Sharp Fellows' Forum	Debbie King Engaging Hard to Reach Groups	Organising Committee “Doing evaluation better – Where are we now? A discussion on the key focus questions for the conference”	Ledule Bosch Institutionalizing Monitoring and Evaluation System in the Social Cluster in South Africa. The Case of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)
5.15pm-6.45pm	AES AGM
8.00pm – 11.00pm	Conference Dinner & Awards Presentation

Friday 7 September 2007
8.30am	Registration Open
9.00am-10.00am	Keynote Address 4 Ms Sue Soal
10.00am-10.30am	Morning tea
10.30am-11.15am	Concurrent Sessions 13
	Valuing	Describing	Attributing	Influencing	Managing
	Jenny Neale	Nan Wehipeihana	Jessica Kenway	Jerome Winston	Andrew Newmarch
	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	John Owen Using the Concepts of Merit and Worth in Determining the Value of Programmatic Interventions	John Scougall A Roadmap through the Spinifex: Constructing an Outcome Hierarchy of Indigenous Sustainability	John Winter More than the sum of the parts: assessing country level effectiveness in the Australian international development program	Kate McKegg Taking Cues from Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management – A Strategic Approach to Improving the Quality and Use of Evaluation in a Large Government Organisation	Kristine Giddy Managing Indigenous research: An evaluation of the Vibe Australia products
11.15am-12.00pm	Concurrent Sessions 14
	Think Tank	Describing	Influencing	Influencing	Managing
	Patricia Rogers	Jenny Neale	Jessica Kenway	Jerome Winston	Andrew Newmarch
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4
	Helen Watts Making Sense out of Mixed Method Evaluations for Complex NRM Programs	Janet Clinton Measuring organizational development in community based health initiatives.	Bandara Bandaranayake The Victorian public sector reform initiatives and the process of ongoing public sector program evaluation	Sarah Appleton Building Capacity in Community Based Health Interventions	Nicola Robinson Doing Evaluation Better at the NSW Department of Community Services
		Marie Delaney Factors influencing the use of Appreciative Inquiry in evaluation practice: reflections from the field	Rick Cummings The challenges of evaluating whole-of-government policy: Applications of current thinking	Bridget Roberts Making Sense of Experience	Karen Fisher Evaluating the cost effectiveness of social policy implementation - longitudinal case study of the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI)
12.00noon-1.00pm	Lunch
1.00pm-1.45pm	Concurrent Sessions 15
	Think Tank	Describing	Describing	Influencing	Managing
	Pamela St Ledger	Nea Harrison	Deborah King	Bernadette Swanson	Helen Goodman
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 4	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6
	Rosalind Hurworth To Pay or Not to Pay? That is the Question.	Sankar Ramasamy A new approach to describing effective case management	Rob Williamson Active participation - evaluating education provided for homeschooled students in New Zealand	Catherine Harper Evaluation of population health status report to assess population health information needs	Julie Elliott Strategic approach to evaluation capability building
		Janet Kelly Doing it together - encouraging young Aboriginal women to creatively co-evaluate health and education programs		Emma Halliday Facilitating the use and influence of evaluation to support the planning and delivery of health improvement policy in Scotland	David McDonald & Sally Lai Evaluating Major National Strategies in Human Services: Challenges and Possibilities
1.45pm-2.05pm	Concurrent Sessions 16
	Valuing	Describing	Roundtable	Influencing	Describing
	Jo Norman	Nea Harrison	Graeme Harvey	Helen Goodman	Bernadette Swanson
	Grand Waldorf 1	Grand Waldorf 2	Grand Waldorf 3	Grand Waldorf 5 & 6	Grand Waldorf 4
	Sandiran Premakanthan Value for Money (VFM) Evaluation Assessment Tool: A Standardized Way to Continuous Measurement of Program Relevance and Program Performance	Marlene Clarkson Making meaning out of observations: Evaluating early childhood centres in New Zealand	Catherine Harper Getting evidence into policy and practice: a framework for development of policy and practice recommendations applicable to the implmentation context	Kate Averill & Lloyd Jowsey Keep evaluation reports off the shelf-using multiple media to engage decision makers	Antonia Kaucz Gendered Evaluation
2.05pm- 2.35pm	Afternoon tea
2.35pm- 3.20pm	Closing session