Statement of purpose

Background

Overview

• Principles and areas
  • Contracting
    • Respect
    • Integrity
    • Responsiveness
    • Competency
    • Reciprocity
  • Ethics
  • Pacific Peoples
  • Maori

Context

Acknowledgements

Applying the Principle of Competency to research and evaluation contracting

To ensure the competency of the work they do with Contractors officials should:

• Support the Project Manager by ensuring access to officials and/or external advisors with an appropriate level of experience and knowledge of the range of issues, methodologies and methods, applicable to the project.

This is particularly important where the project involves a range of diverse stakeholders such as: ethnicity, culture, language, projects where ethical practice is critical (e.g. where safety is involved or where illegal activity could be disclosed to the researchers) or where there is high potential for misinterpretation of the research data or reporting.

This support is in addition to the Advisory/Steering Group for the project. Ensure there is a budget line for appropriate payment for the time of non-public servants.

• Ensure that those undertaking the contract have the training and skills to undertake the project, and that sub-contracting and collaboration can ensure that any mutually identified gaps are remedied.
• Ensure that the time (in Full Time Equivalents of % - F.T.E's) of all members of the proposed research team are specified and that short CV's are sought and supplied. Check references and previous examples of work when these have been sought and supplied.  Treat such information with care and have regard to the Information Privacy Principles. This includes secure storage, only using the information for the particular purpose it is supplied and destroying it when the process is completed.