Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) Evaluation Work Plan
10 September 2025
The IAS Evaluation Work Plan outlines NIAA’s planned, underway and recently completed activities in evaluation, research and data improvement. Archived versions of the Work Plan from 2017–18 through 2020–21 are available from indigenousevalaution@niaa.gov.au .
Activities are added to the Work Plan as they come online, and status updates are made as they progress through the different stages to completion.
Links to all published Work Plan-listed evaluations and reviews are available on the IAS Evaluation Clearinghouse.
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Girls STEM Academy | Publication pending | Evaluation | 26 June 2025 |
| Junior Rangers Capacity Building and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Framework | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 26 June 2025 |
| IAS Secondary School Scholarships | Not continuing | Evaluation | 26 September 2022 |
| Away from Base | Completed | Evaluation | 02 March 2022 |
| Girls Academies | Completed | Evaluation | 04 January 2022 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Culture, Strong Place, Strong Families | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 10 September 2025 |
| Workforce Development Support Units | Completed | Review | 09 May 2025 |
| Prevention and Early Intervention service delivery in the First Nations Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) sector | Underway | Enabling activity: Research | 25 March 2025 |
| Adult Through Care and Youth Through Care Programs Evaluation | Completed | Evaluation | 18 December 2024 |
| Custody Notifications Service Evaluation | Completed | Evaluation | 15 August 2024 |
| Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services (phase 2) | Completed | Evaluation | 15 May 2024 |
| Believe Inquire and Respond to Disclosure (B.I.R.D) – Monitoring and Evaluation | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 15 May 2024 |
| Building the Data Capability of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Treatment Services | Not continuing | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 28 March 2024 |
| Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 20 December 2023 |
| Indigenous Suicide and Data Mapping Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 20 December 2023 |
| Indigenous Youth Connection to Culture | Not continuing | Evaluation | 20 December 2023 |
| Link-Up Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy Phase 3 | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 20 December 2023 |
| Testing Community Safety and Justice Outcomes using Randomised Controlled Trials | Not continuing | Evaluation | 29 September 2023 |
| The Dog Operations Unit | Not continuing | Evaluation | 29 September 2023 |
| Supporting Healing for Families Monitoring and Evaluation Plan | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 21 December 2022 |
| Link-Up Services Program | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 19 August 2022 |
| Allied Health in Remote Schools Project | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 28 June 2022 |
| Indigenous Mental Health First Aid Training review | Not continuing | Review | 21 March 2022 |
| Developing and Implementation of an Adult Corrective Services Data Collection | Underway | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 21 December 2021 |
| Australian Bureau of Statistics’ National Health Survey | Completed | Enabling activity: Data improvement | 05 October 2021 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empowered Communities Partnership Lessons Learned | Publication pending | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 10 September 2025 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indigenous Housing Data Mapping Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Research | 10 September 2025 |
| Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Programme (AACAP) lessons learned | Completed | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 26 June 2023 |
| Northern Territory Remote Housing National Partnership Agreement | Not continuing | Evaluation strategy | 05 October 2021 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Australia Plan Evaluation | Publication pending | Evaluation | 10 September 2025 |
| Priority Reform Four - Community Data Projects Lessons Learned | Underway | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 25 March 2025 |
| Governance of Indigenous Data Lessons Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Lessons learned | 31 May 2024 |
| Priority Reform Two - Sector Strengthening Plan: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework | Underway | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 15 May 2024 |
| Supporting Emerging Indigenous Evaluators: AES Conference Attendance | Underway | Enabling activity: Capability development | 15 May 2024 |
| Martuwarra Fitzroy River Keepers Research Project | Underway | Enabling activity: Research | 28 March 2024 |
| Development and implementation of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation planning for the NIAA’s Policy and Strategy stream | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 26 June 2023 |
| AIATSIS Ethics Project | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 30 March 2023 |
| Closing the Gap Priority Reform Four | Completed | Monitoring and evaluation strategy | 30 March 2023 |
| Support for Emerging Indigenous Australian Evaluators to Attend Australian Evaluation Society Conferences in 2019 and 2022 | Completed | Enabling activity: Capability development | 21 December 2022 |
| Evaluation/enabling activity | Status | Type | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strengthening Organisational Governance Policy | Completed | Evaluation | 06 November 2023 |