Honouring Relational Responsibilities for Indigenous-Led Social Change: A Literature Review of International Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks

Abstract

Indigenous evaluation literature is a powerful approach to upholding the aspirations of Indigenous Peoples. As a site of knowledge production, literature shapes the evaluation processes and practices that serve self-determined priorities: This article offers a synthesis of international Indigenous evaluation theory, to move beyond culturally competent evaluation as a framework for prioritising Indigenous values and aspirations. We acknowledge that ‘culture’ and ‘context’ remain necessary and strategic principles in evaluation design, particularly when evaluation of Indigenous programs continues to be strongly bound by funder and settler government priorities. However, we argue that such prin..