At the July Australasian Evaluation Society Board meeting, Amohia Boulton along with her Aboriginal Board colleagues Sharon Clarke and Doyen Radcliffe, led the board through the process of developing a Reconciliation Action plan (RAP) for the AES Board.
A Reconciliation Action Plan or RAP is a business plan that documents what an organisation commits to do, to contribute to reconciliation, in Australia. A RAP enables organisations to commit to implementing and measuring practical actions that build respectful relationships and create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
There are four different RAPs within the overall Reconciliation programme: Reflect; Innovate; Stretch and Elevate. As this is the first Reconciliation Action Plan that the AES has ever developed, the Society has started at the very beginning by developing a “Reflect” RAP.
Board members have workshopped elements of the RAP over a number of Board meetings and at the July meeting, in a collaborative process came up with the vision for the AES:
Australia respects, recognises and values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history, past and present, their sovereignty, and their right to determine their own future. The impact of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is understood, and owned, by all of us. Through a process of healing, we come together as one to build a better future.
From this point, the Board will complete the final elements of the RAP and send it to Reconciliation Australia (www.reconciliation.org.au) for review and comment. Once these comments have been incorporated the RAP will be sent out to Society members with a view to the Society adopting and launching the RAP at the next AES conference in September 2019.
A “wordle” developed from the workshopping of the RAP vision statement.
At the July Australasian Evaluation Society Board meeting, Amohia Boulton along with her Aboriginal Board colleagues Sharon Clarke and Doyen Radcliffe, led the board through the process of developing a Reconciliation Action plan (RAP) for the AES Board.
A Reconciliation Action Plan or RAP is a business plan that documents what an organisation commits to do, to contribute to reconciliation, in Australia. A RAP enables organisations to commit to implementing and measuring practical actions that build respectful relationships and create opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
There are four different RAPs within the overall Reconciliation programme: Reflect; Innovate; Stretch and Elevate. As this is the first Reconciliation Action Plan that the AES has ever developed, the Society has started at the very beginning by developing a “Reflect” RAP.
Board members have workshopped elements of the RAP over a number of Board meetings and at the July meeting, in a collaborative process came up with the vision for the AES:
Australia respects, recognises and values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history, past and present, their sovereignty, and their right to determine their own future. The impact of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is understood, and owned, by all of us. Through a process of healing, we come together as one to build a better future.
From this point, the Board will complete the final elements of the RAP and send it to Reconciliation Australia (www.reconciliation.org.au) for review and comment. Once these comments have been incorporated the RAP will be sent out to Society members with a view to the Society adopting and launching the RAP at the next AES conference in September 2019.
A “wordle” developed from the workshopping of the RAP vision statement.
