Where to for income management?

Continuing this week’s theme of social security and economic participation, Don Arthur asks about the future of income management within the Government’s welfare strategy. This post originally appeared on the Parliamentary Library’s FlagPost blog.

How effective are NFP submissions to Parliamentary Inquiries?

Public submissions to Parliamentary Inquiries are routine for many not-for-profit (NFP) organisations. These Inquiries provide an opportunity for NFPs to contribute to public life and to advocate for the communities they work with, however the impact of submissions and the efficacy of Inquiry processes are largely unknown. In this post, Jacqueline Williams examines these important issues and provides recommendations for improving interactions between NFPs and Parliamentary Inquiries. 

Using developmental evaluation to build data collection frameworks (evaluation case study 1 of 3).

This is the first of three case studies I will be posting about evaluation this week.

Click here to see an overview of the three case studies and how they are related to Power to Persuade. 

In this case study I talk about:

• working on a new program that took a long time to find its legs
• how I was able to incorporate evaluation into the program development process
• how I used administrative processes as a data collection tool.

Read on!

Evaluation Case Study Week at Power to Persuade

This week is all about practical case studies in evaluation. In particular, this week is all about how I do on-the-ground evaluations with programs.

A while ago I wrote an article about the ‘policy whirlpool’ . This article was based on participant musings from the 2014 Power to Persuade symposium. The policy whirlpool model described four key areas that had to be seamlessly integrated in order to develop good policy that creates change. We have to make sure that our values and our knowledge are integrated, we have to communicate our values and knowledge to others, and we have to have good relationships to make this communication effective.

The three case studies I am posting this week show how evaluators have to mediate values, knowledge, communication and relationships to make evaluation work.

Continue reading to see how the case studies align with the policy whirlpool model.