University of Sydney, University Centre for Rural Health, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia.
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity, Adelaide, SA 5034, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jul 24;20(14):6437. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20146437.
Rigorous and effective evaluations inform policy and service delivery and create evidence of program impacts and outcomes for the communities they are designed to support. Genuine engagement of communities is a key feature of effective evaluation, building trust and enhancing relevancy for communities and providing meaningful outcomes and culturally relevant findings. This applies to Indigenous peoples' leadership and perspectives when undertaking evaluations on programs that involve Indigenous communities. This systematic scoping review sought to explore the characteristics of culturally informed evaluations and the extent of their application in Australia, including the use of specific evaluation tools and types of community engagement. Academic and grey literature were searched between 2003 and 2023, with 57 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. Over time, there was an increase in the number of culturally informed evaluations undertaken, predominantly in the health and wellbeing sector. Around a quarter used a tool specifically developed for Indigenous evaluations. Half of the publications included Indigenous authorship; however, most studies lacked detail on how evaluations engaged with communities. This review highlights the need for further development of evaluation tools and standardised reporting to allow for shared learnings and improvement in culturally safe evaluation practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
严格有效的评估为政策和服务提供信息，并为其旨在支持的社区创造项目影响和成果的证据。社区的真正参与是有效评估的一个关键特征，它可以建立信任，提高社区的相关性，并提供有意义的结果和文化相关的发现。这适用于在涉及土著社区的方案上进行评估时，土著人民的领导和观点。本系统范围综述旨在探讨文化知情评估的特点及其在澳大利亚的应用程度，包括使用特定的评估工具和类型的社区参与。在 2003 年至 2023 年期间，对学术和灰色文献进行了检索，符合纳入标准的研究有 57 项。随着时间的推移，进行了更多的文化知情评估，主要集中在健康和福利部门。大约四分之一的评估使用了专门为土著评估开发的工具。有一半的出版物包括土著作者的作品；然而，大多数研究都没有详细说明评估是如何与社区接触的。这一审查强调需要进一步开发评估工具和标准化报告，以便在为澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民社区提供文化安全评估方面能够共同学习和改进。
