Program evaluation

Different groups — frontline workers, auditors, the public — value different aspects of evaluation for different reasons. It’s important to keep these competing values in mind.

Evaluation and partnerships are both in short supply in the Indigenous Affairs portfolio, warns the nation’s top bureaucrat. Public servants need to learn to operate in the worlds of Indigenous people, not the other way around.

Annual reports: faux-accountability built on an outdated and fictional performance construct. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so expensive — and against real public policy outcomes.