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Aneta Cram presents at the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) in Japan.
Aneta Cram presents at the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association (APEA) in Japan.

Aneta’s presentation, entitled ‘Supporting Localised Evaluation Practice through Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks,’ drew on the core insights from her PhD research, which focused on the development of Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks.

Sovereign Soils: Aneta Cram’s Journey in Advancing Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks
Sovereign Soils: Aneta Cram’s Journey in Advancing Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks

Aneta Cram is a doctoral researcher whose work at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington explores the development of Indigenous Evaluation Frameworks across Australia, Turtle Island, Hawai’i, and Aotearoa. Motivated by the need for Indigenous communities to lead and define their own evaluation practices, her research highlights the significance, development processes, and impacts of these frameworks. Supported by scholarships from Whakauae Research Services.

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Enoka L, Boulton A, Potaka U. (2025)

Lessons and experiences in co-designing an Indigenous leadership, governance, and decision-making model: Te Remu Huia.

Journal of Community Systems for Health, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.36368/jcsh.v2i2.1209

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Finlay, S.M., Boulton, A., Judd, J. et al

‘Activating Indigenous ways’ – perceptions of how Australian Indigenous health and wellbeing program evaluations are commissioned and future recommendations.

Int J Equity Health 24, 303 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02675-0

Finlay, S., Judd, J., Smith, J., A., Simpson, H., Fredericks, B., Boulton, A., Roe, Y., Pender, J., Kerrigan, S., Temby, A., Opozda, M., Cargo, M, (2025).

Commissioning stronger evaluations of Indigenous health and wellbeing programs: A scoping review of government and non-government Indigenous evaluation commissioning practices.

First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, Volume 3, 2025,100089, ISSN 2949-8406, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fnhli.2025.100089

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