Open AccessCollaborative Evaluation Frameworks for Indigenous-Led Community Health Interventions: A Narrative Review
Author(s) -
Diana Gresku,
Charlotte Jones,
Donna Kurtz
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
canadian journal of program evaluation/the canadian journal of program evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1496-7308
pISSN - 0834-1516
DOI - 10.3138/cjpe.71349
Subject(s) - indigenous , psychological intervention , narrative , context (archaeology) , participatory action research , equity (law) , sociology , traditional knowledge , citizen journalism , community based participatory research , health equity , community development , narrative review , engineering ethics , medicine , political science , psychology , geography , nursing , public health , anthropology , ecology , engineering , psychotherapist , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , biology
This narrative review highlights evaluation approaches, principles, and frameworks for chronic disease interventions in North American Indig-enous contexts. It aims to inform the co-development of an evaluation frame-work for two studies focused on improving diabetes and obesity outcomes for urban Indigenous communities. This review uses a Two-Eyed Seeing perspective that brings Indigenous and Western ways of being, knowing, and doing together. There is a paucity of published evaluation frameworks inclusive of both per-spectives. The themes identified here suggest that evaluation approaches should address gender equity issues, be participatory, be grounded in local context, traditions, and knowledge, and be responsive to community-identified needs and solutions.