Government Policy Evaluation
One of Western Influences’ senior consultants project managed the whole-of-government (Australian) evaluation of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), known as the “Intervention,” including all contract negotiation and contract management. One of the greatest challenges of this project was building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders across 17 Federal Government agencies and two jurisdictions, including the management of the NTER Evaluation Board, the NTER Evaluation Advisory Group, FaHCSIA’s NTER Sub-Committee and the Northern Territory State Office. The diverse stakeholder groups had, at times, conflicting interests in the outcome of the evaluation, which was often the seed for negative and highly political media coverage. This very controversial matter required stringent control mechanisms for the collection, interpretation, use and reporting of sensitive data.
