Improving the oral health of preschool children who are most at risk of poor oral health outcomes
June 17, 2024
Poor oral health is largely preventable, yet it is also one of the most common chronic health problems experienced by New Zealanders of all ages. A body of evidence links poor oral health to several risk factors and determinants common to other chronic diseases such as cardi...
The Value for Investment approach is now included in evaluation training at whole-of-government level in the UK through the Evaluation Task Force (ETF). The ETF is a joint HM Treasury and Cabinet Office unit established to ensure evidence and evaluation s...
Nan Wehipeihana honoured in the Evaluation Journal of Australasia
December 15, 2023
Kinnect Group member Nan Wehipeihana, Director of Weaving Insights, recently provided her evaluator perspective as a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society to Anthea Rutter. “Members who have made a long-term and wide-ranging contribution to the Australian Evalua...
Kinnect Group member Dovetail Consulting recently conducted a VfI evaluation of the national Youth Primary Care Mental Health and Addictions Initiative. As part of this project they developed a new VfI guide. The guide helps evaluators apply the approach ...
Kinnect Group member, Judy Oakden, Director of Pragmatica is adept in preparing case studies to capture key progress of government agencies and NGO’s strategies, policies and programmes. An example is two case studies Pragmatica prepared in 2022 and 2023 on the work o...
UK Evaluation Society Innovation in Methodologies Prize
July 20, 2022
Julian King, with UK-based colleagues Esther Namukasa and Alex Hurrell, received the UK Evaluation Society Innovation in Methodologies Prize for their presentation at the 2022 UK Evaluation Conference. The presentation, Theory-based evaluation: incorporating value...
American Evaluation Association’s Outstanding Evaluation Award 2019
November 12, 2019
Kinnect Group members Kate McKegg and Judy Oakden, with our evaluation colleagues Debbie Goodwin and Jacqui Henry, received the prestigious American Evaluation Association’s Outstanding Evaluation Award in 2019. The award is for the Developmental Evaluation of the Waikato ...
The Developmental Evaluation for Social Justice Institute is the brainchild of Nora Murphy of the TerraLuna Collaborative and Kate McKegg and Nan Wehipeihana of the Kinnect Group....
Release Announcement: Evaluation Building Blocks – A Guide
September 15, 2019
The Kinnect Group developed this evaluation guide over ten years working together. It is our pleasure to share it with you here....
