Measuring and Growing Wellbeing
Bringing community into the design by bringing together stories and numbers
We empower community knowledge and stories with data.
Our work is anchored by centering community perspectives, priorities and knowledge into our evaluation design and practice.
How we do it is shaped by our shared space.
Our shared space approach is a key part of the way we work. It is unique and underlies the way we collaborate and co-design. It means that everyone collaborates in every stage, at every level.
With permission, we share stories through video, storytelling and qualitative data analysis to create meaningful change to benefit both the communities and partners we work with.
Together we bring community and partners into the design so that programs are designed and evaluated based on shared measures of success.
“Culture is really important to us… you can’t leave your culture… with culture you won’t lose yourself, you won’t lose all the land.”
— Timmy Galilingu Ganabarra, Elder
Stories from the Ground
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Culture
This short documentary reveals the complexity of Aboriginal culture in remote Australia. It also suggests that connecting with culture - through being on country, speaking in language, and practising culture in the everyday - improves the wellbeing of Aboriginal people living in remote Australia.
Education
This video presents a range of perspectives on what can improve education outcomes for Aboriginal children living in remote Australia.
Work
What does meaningful work in remote Australia look like?
Let’s start evaluating for impact together
Our approach is both strength-based and evidence-based.
We love what we do and we’d love you to join us.
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We help communities, governments, and other partners work together to design, scientifically map and evaluate impacts based on shared measures of success.
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We help design evaluations that are specific to the area you’re working in.
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We harness the value of two-way working and two-way learning. We provide you with consultation and insight into our unique approach, to help bridge the space between culture, data and wellbeing.
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We bring everyone together, to work towards creating a genuine, meaningful and lasting impact.
“My learnings over these years are fairly simple, really: that those who are most invested and most impacted must not be assigned to simply be policy render. They must be the designers, the architects, the builders and even the evaluators for impact and change”
— Romlie Mokak, Indigenous Policy Evaluation Commissioner with the Productivity Commission
