NAVIGATING THE EVALUATIVE JOURNEY: FROM INSIGHT TO IMPACT
Evaluation isn’t just about creating reports—it’s about creating impact. This session explores how commissioners and evaluators can lead a purposeful journey through each stage of the process, ensuring insights translate into real-world action. Learn how to structure engagement, navigate complexity, and ensure evaluations drive meaningful change beyond the final report.
What we cover:
- Why stakeholder engagement is critical to evaluation success
- How evaluators can act as brokers between programme funders, implementers and communities
- Practical strategies to maintain engagement across all evaluation stages
- Common pitfalls that derail meaningful engagement—and how to avoid them
- Turning insights into action: sustaining impact after the evaluation ends
This webinar is ideal for evaluators, commissioners, and decision-makers who want to enhance the value of evaluations by embedding engagement, insight, and action into every step of the journey.
About the Experts
Marnie is our Practice Lead for evaluation and research. She is experienced in programme and policy evaluation, monitoring, strategy development, training and facilitation. Marnie is particularly skilled in qualitative research methods. She is an expert at interpreting complex datasets into accessible and practical learnings. Marnie’s area of expertise includes evaluation of health, transport and social sector policies and initiatives. She designed and led a complex, multi-cycle evaluation of modernised transport legislation, led several evaluations social sector initiatives to enhance child and family wellbeing, and has evaluated a range of health policies, programmes and interventions in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Marnie takes a participatory approach to all her work and prioritises taking stakeholders ‘on the journey’ of evaluation to enhance buy-in to the results. Marnie’s areas of expertise include health, transport and local government. She has designed and led a complex multi-cycle evaluation of modernised transport legislation, led the evaluation of a controversial local government funding grant pool, and evaluated a range of health policies, programmes and interventions in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Eleanor is an experienced policy analyst, researcher and lawyer with a background spanning government, Universities and international organisations. Eleanor has significant experience the justice and human rights sectors in Australia and internationally. She has spearheaded and contributed to projects addressing critical issues such as legal assistance, family violence, disability rights, protest rights, tobacco control, and education.
Eleanor’s expertise includes policy development, qualitative research, and project management. She has a talent for designing and delivering effective consultations and is skilled in engaging collaboratively and sensitively with diverse stakeholders.
Eleanor is admitted as a lawyer in Victoria.
Downloadable Resource
Slides - Navigating the evaluative journey
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RESTREAM + LIVE Q&A | Effective Stakeholder Engagement
Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025 | 12:10 p.m. NZDT | 10:10 a.m. AEDT
Engaging the right stakeholders at the right time is crucial for successful policy design and implementation. In this webinar, our experts will draw on their extensive experience in complex and sensitive contexts to share strategies for effective stakeholder engagement.
This webinar is ideal for people at all experience levels who engage with stakeholders in a policy, change, review, or evaluation setting.
