This presentation will discuss the indigenous approach Tokona te Raki (an indigenous social enterprise) is taking to understand evaluation as a tool for future making.
Like the whakatoki, Ka mua, ka muri we are integrating an indigenous future making approach to understanding how our past (te kore) holds important insights into our future and how our future (te po) needs to be anchored in our learning and dreaming within our current state (te ao).
The presentation will provide an overview of the approach we are taking to understand not only what value and impact we are having in the short term, programmatic space but also what difference we are seeing in our partnerships with iwi, hapū and whānau. We will discuss the challenges, successes and early learning we are observing as a result of embedding a kaupapa Māori future making methodology at the core of our approach to evaluative practice. In particular we will focus on sharing our methodological approach to evaluative reasoning and embedding evaluative practices into the DNA of our oragnisational culture by drawing on qualitative data and practical exemplars of key material we are developing that is fit for purpose across our organisation and wider partnerships.
