Program Design, Development & Review

Review of FaHCSIA's 2005-2009 Social Policy Research Services Program (2008-9) A review of the quality and policy relevance of the SPRS Program

Design of an Assessment Guide for M&E Frameworks for the Department of Finance and Deregulation, Office of Evaluation and Audit, Indigenous Programs (2008) Producing a Guide to assess and review M&E Frameworks.

Advanced Monitoring and Evaluation Framework as part of Advanced M&E Training Program for International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), Oxford UK, (2008) Taining in relation to the design and use of an M&E Framework by International NGOs that integrates monitoring and evaluation functions.

Program Logic, Logframe and Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for University of Oxford UK ' Young Lives' Program (2007/8) Development of a program logic, logframe and monitoring and evaluation plan for a program involving a 15 year longitudinal study of child poverty in four developing country contexts.

Consultations for Victorian Auditor-General's Office with Impact Consulting Group (2006)
Consultations with stakeholders, service providers and service users as part of a performance audit undertaken by VAGO of initiatives undertaken by local government aimed at improving access and participation in Early Childhood services. Focus on three mainstream and one Indigenous specific initiative.

Independent Assessment of Reconnect Services, Department of Family and Community Services with ARTD (2005)
Independent assessment undertaken of 7 Reconnect services, 5 Victorian based and 2 specialist Indigenous services.

Scoping and Program Design for a Family Support Initiative, Mission Australia (2005)
Scoping and design and an early intervention/prevention family support initiative in the Northern Region of Metropolitan Melbourne, including design of an evaluation framework.

Analysis of Service Activity Reporting for Australian Government Funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Services, Department of Health and Aging, with Paul Ban and Associates (2004-2005)
A review of the validity and reliability, content, analysis and reporting of Service Activity Reporting data provided annually by Australian Government funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander primary health care services across Australia.

Review of Jewish Care Victoria Community Services (2004)
Organisational review of the Community Services component of Jewish Care with the aim of developing new models of service delivery enhancing assessment and referral functions and developing a community capacity building component.

Strategic Analysis of the Family Support Program for City of Yarra, Victoria (2003)
Review of the operation of the Family Support Program at the City of Yarra, convening a planning day to consider the findings of the review and develop strategies for the future.

Review of National Ethical Complaints Management for Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) (2002/3)
Development of overarching framework for national co-ordination of ethical complaints and development of case precedents to guide practice for the National Ethics Committee, AASW.

Development of Discussion Paper to provide a Strategic Overview for Jewish Care Victoria (2002)
Development of discussion paper which identified current context and future directions that Jewish Care should consider in its strategic planning process.

Project Design for Early Intervention Strategy for Anglicare, Victoria (2001)
Development of an early intervention strategy to augment existing service family support service provision within the agency.

Identification of Best Practice Principles for Juvenile Justice Section, Northern Region Department of Human Services Victoria (2000)
Workshops with Juvenile Justice staff to develop best practice principles, and to produce a document identifying these principles.