Measuring what matters: exploring value in the context of social investment in Aotearoa

Practice Foundations: October 2024

Social Investment brings together different perspectives and ways of measuring value and outcomes across social, economic and cultural domains. Doing it well requires integrated efforts across several disciplines, drawing from a range of sources of evidence, and focusing on short and longer term outcomes.

In this session we explored concepts of value, and approaches to evidencing and measuring value, relevant to social investment in Aotearoa, with kaikōrero Atawhai Tibble (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Apanui, Tuwharetoa, Whanganui, and Raukawa ki te Tonga) and Dr Julian King (Tangata Tiriti).

October’s Practice Foundations was a collaborative event with Mā Te Rae, Māori Evaluation Association. We extend a special thanks to Dr Debbie Goodwin for all her support with organising this session and to Angie Tangaere for facilitating.

Dylan Culhane of Interactionz also joined the session and captured the above visual - ngā mihi nui ki a koe, Dylan! Click the button below to download a PDF version.

A follow up article co-authored by Julian and Atawhai can be found at: https://open.substack.com/pub/juliankingnz/p/exploring-value-in-the-context-of?r=8fet1&utm_medium=ios

The Lab Team