Evaluation of the ‘Communities In Crisis’ Policy

This report was published by the former Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FACSIA)

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Contents

• Cover
• Table of contents
• Executive Summary
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Key Aspects of the Method
• 3. Policy Design
• 4. Policy Implementation
• 5. Supporting Processes
• 6. Conclusions
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C

Table of contents

 

• Executive Summary
  • Background
    • The purpose of the evaluation
    • Key aspects of the method
  • Findings
    • Policy design
    • Policy implementation
    • Supporting processes
  • Conclusions
    • Case Studies
    • Overall
    • An alternative approach
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 What is the ‘Communities in Crisis’ initiative?
  • 1.2 The purpose of this evaluation
  • 1.3 An overview of our method
  • 1.4 The structure of the report
• 2 Key Aspects of the Method
  • 2.1 Research themes
  • 2.2 Gathering information
  • 2.3 Organising findings and conclusions
• 3 Policy Design
  • 3.1 Identifying the issue
    • 3.1.1 Defining crisis
    • 3.1.2 Causes of social crisis in discrete Indigenous communities
    • 3.1.3 The CIC policy’s identification of crisis as a policy issue
  • 3.2 Understanding the issue: crisis & Indigenous disadvantage
    • 3.2.1 Crisis and disadvantage: a snapshot understanding of broader causes
    • 3.2.2 The CIC policy’s understanding of crisis
  • 3.3 Choosing a policy response
    • 3.3.1 Considerations made in the choice of CIC policy
    • 3.3.2 Effectiveness of these considerations for choosing a suitable policy response
  • 3.4 Summary of key findings about policy design
• 4 Policy Implementation
  • 4.1 The Yalata intervention
    • 4.1.1 Background to the Yalata crisis
    • 4.1.2 The nature of the intervention
    • 4.1.3 Outputs from the Yalata intervention
    • 4.1.4 Assessment of intervention outcomes
    • 4.1.5 Further considerations
  • 4.2 The Beagle Bay Intervention
    • 4.2.1 Background to the Beagle Bay Crisis
    • 4.2.2 The ICC’s Approach
    • 4.2.3 Intervention Outputs
    • 4.2.4 Assessment of Intervention Outcomes
    • 4.2.5 Further Considerations
  • 4.3 The Balgo Intervention
    • 4.3.1 Background to the Balgo Crisis
    • 4.3.2 The ICC’s Approach
    • 4.3.3 Intervention Outputs
    • 4.3.4 Assessment of Intervention Outcomes
    • 4.3.5 Further Considerations
  • 4.4 The Kalumburu Intervention
    • 4.4.1 Background to the Kalumburu Crisis
    • 4.4.2 The ICC’s Approach
    • 4.4.3 Intervention Outputs
    • 4.4.4 Assessment of Intervention Outcomes
    • 4.4.5 Further Considerations
  • 4.5 Key implementation findings
    • 4.5.1 Summary of key findings about policy implementation
• 5 Supporting Processes
  • 5.1 Policy design
    • 5.1.1 Consultation during policy design
    • 5.1.2 Coordination during policy design
    • 5.1.3 Monitoring and evaluation during policy design
  • 5.2 Policy implementation
    • 5.2.1 Description of supporting processes at the community level
    • 5.2.2 Assessment of consultation during implementation
    • 5.2.3 Assessment of coordination during implementation
    • 5.2.4 Assessment of monitoring & evaluation during implementation
  • 5.3 Summary of key findings about supporting processes
• 6 Conclusions
  • 6.1 Overall conclusions
  • 6.2 Why recommend an alternative approach?
  • 6.3 Policy design: a development approach for overcoming crisis
    • 6.3.1 Pursuing stability: the development continuum
    • 6.3.2 The transitional nature of development
    • 6.3.3 The five foundations of stable development
    • 6.3.4 In summary
  • 6.4 Policy implementation: implementing the development approach
    • 6.4.1 Planning for stable development
    • 6.4.2 Applying flexibility in the right place
    • 6.4.3 Coordinating the right knowledge and expertise
  • 6.5 Supporting processes
    • 6.5.1 Consultation: reference groups
    • 6.5.2 Coordination: committing to the plan
    • 6.5.3 Monitoring & evaluation: using a development index
• Appendix A
  • Evaluation questions as proposed by the Department
• Appendix B
  • The evaluation framework
• Appendix C
  • Agencies consulted

 

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