Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) Evaluation Work Plan
5 January 2023
The NIAA has moved to a dynamic version of the IAS Evaluation Work Plan to make it accessible to a broader audience, and to improve the timeliness of the information presented. Previous versions of the IAS Evaluation Work Plan (2017–18 through 2020–21) are still available.
In this dynamic version of the work plan, users can find information on past and current evaluations, and enabling activities, according to IAS Program areas in the tables below. New evaluations and enabling activities are added to the work plan as they come on line and updates to the status of evaluations are made as they progress through the different stages to completion.
NIAA’s evaluation and enabling activities are focussing on the early stages of the evaluation cycle – getting performance reporting and monitoring activities in place early to facilitate high quality, robust evaluations in the future to inform decision making.
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Rangers Capacity Building and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework | Planned | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 27 September 2024 |
| IAS Secondary School Scholarships | Not continuing | Evaluation | 26 September 2022 |
| Away from Base | Completed | Evaluation | 02 March 2022 |
| Girls Academies | Completed | Evaluation | 04 January 2022 |
| Indigenous Girls STEM Academy | Underway | Evaluation | 05 October 2021 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custody Notifications Service Evaluation | Completed | Evaluation | 15 August 2024 |
| Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services (phase 2) | Completed | Evaluation | 15 May 2024 |
| Believe Inquire and Respond to Disclosure (B.I.R.D) – Monitoring and Evaluation | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 15 May 2024 |
| Adult Through Care and Youth Through Care Programs Evaluation | Publication pending | Evaluation | 28 March 2024 |
| Building the Data Capability of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Treatment Services | Not continuing | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 28 March 2024 |
| Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 20 December 2023 |
| Indigenous Suicide and Data Mapping Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 20 December 2023 |
| Indigenous Youth Connection to Culture | Not continuing | Evaluation | 20 December 2023 |
| Link-Up Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy Phase 3 | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 20 December 2023 |
| Testing Community Safety and Justice Outcomes using Randomised Controlled Trials | Not continuing | Evaluation | 29 September 2023 |
| The Dog Operations Unit | Not continuing | Evaluation | 29 September 2023 |
| Workforce Development Support Units | Publication pending | Review | 29 September 2023 |
| Supporting Healing for Families Monitoring and Evaluation Plan | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 21 December 2022 |
| Link-Up Services Program | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 19 August 2022 |
| Allied Health in Remote Schools Project | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 28 June 2022 |
| Indigenous Mental Health First Aid Training review | Not continuing | Review | 21 March 2022 |
| Developing and Implementation of an Adult Corrective Services Data Collection | Underway | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 21 December 2021 |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics’ National Health Survey | Completed | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 05 October 2021 |
| Strong Culture, Strong Place, Strong Families | Underway | Enabling activity: Research | 05 October 2021 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empowered Communities Partnership Lessons Learned | Underway | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 15 May 2024 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Housing Data Mapping Project | Underway | Enabling activity: Research | 15 May 2024 |
| Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Programme (AACAP) lessons learned | Completed | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 26 June 2023 |
| Northern Territory Remote Housing National Partnership Agreement | Not continuing | Evaluation strategy | 05 October 2021 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Australia Plan Evaluation | Planned | Evaluation | 27 September 2024 |
| Priority Reform Four - Community Data Projects Evaluation | Planned | Evaluation | 27 June 2024 |
| Governance of Indigenous Data Lessons Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 31 May 2024 |
| Priority Reform Two - Sector Strengthening Plan: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 15 May 2024 |
| Supporting Emerging Indigenous Evaluators: AES Conference Attendance | Underway | Enabling activity: Capability development | 15 May 2024 |
| Martuwarra Fitzroy River Keepers Research Project | Underway | Enabling activity: Research | 28 March 2024 |
| Development and implementation of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation planning for the NIAA’s Policy and Strategy stream | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 26 June 2023 |
| AIATSIS Ethics Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 30 March 2023 |
| Closing the Gap Priority Reform Four | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 30 March 2023 |
| Support for Emerging Indigenous Australian Evaluators to Attend Australian Evaluation Society Conferences in 2019 and 2022 | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 21 December 2022 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strengthening Organisational Governance Policy | Completed | Evaluation | 06 November 2023 |