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Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue: Penny Royal

Robert Drake

SmartSteps
Director
Sydney

https://smartsteps.biz

Director of SmartSteps, a consultancy specialising in the design and evaluation of financial literacy programs. Internationally, Robert works with the World Bank on the design and evaluation of financial literacy and inclusion programs in Indonesia. He was previously General Manager - Grants of a $12 million grants program for 40 financial literacy projects. Robert lead the ASIC team that created MoneySmart, one of the world’s leading financial advice websites.

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Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Aunty Nola Hooper • Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

11:30am AEST

Beyond 'reach': Rethinking the evaluation of digital government Chancellor 3Anne Markiewicz • Tanja Porter

12:05pm AEST

Economic evaluation of justice support: Transforming life pathways for people with intellectual disability Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Ruth McCausland • Rebecca Reeve

12:10pm AEST

Joining the dots: evaluation and strategy Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Joanna Farmer

12:15pm AEST

Using systems theory to explore the impacts and outcomes of a research and evaluation capacity building partnership Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Rochelle Tobin

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Designing a transformative evaluation framework Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Sarah Stamp

1:30pm AEST

What we wish we'd known: The experiences of new and emerging evaluators Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Nerida Buckley • Rebecca Denniss • Amy Gullickson • Sally Hartmanis • Matt Healey • Liz Smith The Promise Design-thinking and Implementation Science holds for Social Impact Evaluation: Views from Practitioners and Evaluators Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Rachel Aston • Ruth Aston • Robbie Francis • Timoci O’Connor

2:30pm AEST

Co-creating an evaluation of an innovative collective impact project: the Katherine Individual Support Program Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Jenne Roberts

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Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Robert Drake • Vanessa Hood

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Values and Synthesis: Evaluation's Power Core Conference centreCatherine Hastings • Amy Gullickson • Kelly Hannum

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Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Penny Hagen

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Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability. Chancellor 5Michael Shapland • Tracey McMartin

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Evaluative thinking and strategic learning - nice words, do they make any difference? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Meg Beilken • Hayley Rose • Zazie Tolmer • Mila Waise

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Evaluation capability building: Transforming evaluation culture or spinning wheels? Chancellor 4Claire Grealy • Martin Hall • Vanessa Hood • Megan Kerr • Delyth Lloyd • Kate Nichols • Amanda Reeves • Roberta Thorburn • Eleanor Williams

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Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Kate McKegg • Nan Wehipeihana The Lived Experience Evaluators Project: Combining design thinking and innovation to build cultural capital in the evaluation sector Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Anna Strempel

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The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study Chancellor 6Anthea McClintock • Jess Dart • Stuart Raetz

3:10pm AEST

Evaluation and Transformation: It's the Politics Stupid Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Chris Roche

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Sizing up social campaigns - Evaluation in a market research world Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Gerard Atkinson

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If what you are doing scares you, you're probably on the right track: 5 things I've learned about how to co-design an evaluation Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Jenne Roberts

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Evolving the evaluation deliverable Conference centreMatt Healey • Gerard Atkinson

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Realities of monitoring and evaluation in a not-for-profit Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Eboni Tiller

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When do we have enough evidence!!! Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Zazie Tolmer

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We should be democritising evalution, not sanctifying it Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Duncan Rintoul

10:20am AEST

TLDR (too long, didn't read): Let's knife evaluation reports Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Liz Smith

11:00am AEST

"Stories for Purpose" – transforming the use of documentary film, participatory media and participatory forums in Monitoring and Evaluation, in order to create evidence based visual reports Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Margaret Howard • Susan Rooney-Harding

12:00pm AEST

Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making? Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Byron Pakula • Damien Sweeney

1:30pm AEST

'Drive out fear': creating space for evaluative thinking and speculation for practitioners and organisations Chancellor 4Marion Norton • Susan Garner • Carolyn Page