Le vendredi 22 mai, 13 h (heure de l'Est)
Titre : Indigenous Evaluation & Research Methods. Application in Canada, Zambia and Your Site
Résumé : Indigenous evaluation research colleagues in Canada and Zambia are collaborating to develop methodologies and associated methods to be more appropriate, comprehensive and helpful for learning and positive change. To do so, we need to understand more deeply, with the people, responses to the following:
1. What is the best possible future?
2. How can we acknowledge key complexities - past, present and future?
3. What has been, and is, the relationship between the people and their land?
4. What contextual dimensions must we consider (cultural and social, politics and power, economic and ecological).
5. Who are the key stakeholders and what are their interests?
6. How should we re-conceptualize problems/challenges, evidence and knowledge?
7. How should knowledge be communicated to improve decisions regarding policies practices systems and how Indigenous people interact with them.
For decades (see bios), we've been committed to Indigenous peoples in Canada and Zambia and their wellbeing. We'll share our experiences in strengthening engagement, research/evaluation and knowledge utilization to create positive change with relevant systems. You should leave with greater knowledge of principles and possibilities for evaluation, and early experience with applying these to your own evaluation research path through 4 activities.
Présentation : Eugene Krupa, John B. Zoe, Kimberly Fairman, Nathan Kapata, PhD, FRCP
Type: Half day workshop (180 minutes, online)
Langue : English
Expertise : All of us are experienced consultants, practitioners and researchers. Dr. Krupa is a credentialed evaluator with a deep background in public health and decades of experience in participatory and developmental evaluation, capacity building, using knowledge gained to create positive, sustainable change with complex problems, and applying engagement principles in work with Indigenous and vulnerable populations. Dr. Kapata is expert in public health in the Zambian context and working with Indigenous and traditional peoples, communities and government agencies in diverse ministries. Kimberly Fairman and John B. Zoe bring deep expertise in Indigenous research methodologies and methods from years of experience with Canada's northern Indigenous peoples. All four are collaborating in a project to link Indigenous researchers in Canada and Sub-Saharran Africa to create new solutions to complex problems facing rural and remote communities.
Niveau : Intermediate
Prérequis : No one would be excluded but an intermediate level of experience in evaluation research is an asset, as is some experience working with Indigenous groups. We would like to provide some pre-reading so participants can move more quickly to discussing the concepts and then applying them to their own situations.
Objectifs : Participants should leave the workshop with the following:
1. Knowledge of more appropriate, considerate and comprehensive evaluation research methodology, as well as several methods that are proving to be effective with Indigenous people and the systems that want to engage and serve them.
2. Insights into, and experience in, shifting one's thinking about appropriate methodology with their own evaluation(s) as well as early skill in designing methods to be more appropriate and engaging
3. Strategies for knowledge utilization - within Indigenous groups and systems that seek to work with them, as well as for the relationship between them.
Stratégies : We are definitely familiar with active learning and facilitating workshops, discussions and application of concepts. Instruction to application activity ratio is ~50/50 We'll use a poll at the beginning to gather questions and applications, then 4 cycles of instruction and active application. In each cycle, concepts and case study stories of application are presented for 10-20 min, then 10-25 min activity where participants reflect on, then apply, concepts in their own projects, and discuss with others. We are using a role play to illustrate differences in thinking (20 min ), then closing with identifying next steps.