If you are looking for creativity and innovation and want to collectively act for social improvement and social betterment then you have come to the right place!
Research, policy design, program development and evaluation focused on making the world a better place is not easy. It is not always comfortable or apolitical, but we are here!
We are one among a few organizations in Australia and the Global South (Asia, the Pacific, and Africa) working at the cutting edge of diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice across the policy, project, program and business re-organization, research and evaluation life cycles.
If you are looking for innovation,
then you have come to the right place.
We are one among a few organizations in Australia and the Global South (Asia, the Pacific, and Africa) working at the cutting edge of diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice in projects, programs, and business evaluation (including business re-organization reviews) and strategic policy reviews and continuous practice improvement.
But before reading on, STOP!
We are guessing that when you heard about the Centre for Multicultural Policy and Program Evaluation or are reading through this website that you probably think we focus only on ethnic and racially diverse persons. Yes! We do! But we also focus on sexually diverse (i.e., LGBTIQ+) persons, aged persons, women, persons living with disabilities and young persons. Basically, we work for and with people who have historically been marginalised and/or oppressed in diverse and “mainstream” contexts.
But before reading on, STOP!
We are guessing that when you heard about the Centre for Multicultural Policy and Program Evaluation or were reading through this website that you probably think we focus only on ethnic and racial equity in program evaluation. Yes! We do! But we also focus on cisgender women, transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, sexual minority (i.e., LGBTIQ+) people, aged people, people with disabilities and youth who have historically been marginalised and/or oppressed in ethnically and racially diverse and “mainstream” contexts.
Our definition of “multicultural” includes shared beliefs, assumptions, contexts, patterns of behaviour, understanding across groups, organisations and disciplines such as social research and evaluation.
Our niche work stands to inform social change and bring diverse cultural values into the mainstream of evaluation and research, theory and practice, program design, organisational continuous learning, strategic public policy making and review, program design and delivery and project development (including service need analysis, service planning, feasibility studies and strategic assessments).
Our definition of “multicultural” includes multiple world views, organisational, cultural traditions, social research and evaluation cultures.
Our work stands to inform social change and bring diverse cultural values into the mainstream of evaluation, organisational continuous learning, strategic public policy making and review, program design and delivery and project development (including service need analysis, service planning, feasibility studies and strategic assessments).
