SPEaR Good Practice Guidelines 2008: Research and evaluation involving Pacific Peoples
Applying the Principle of Competency to research and evaluation involving Pacific Peoples
To ensure the research work they do with Pacific Peoples is competent, officials should:
- Include as partners and/or participants in the research project team, pacific Peoples of the same cultural groups and languages so they can advise on the most suitable and inappropriate approaches in relation to the Pacific Peoples involved in the research project.
- Recognise the shortage of Pacific researchers and the responsibility to create respectful, responsive, competent, reciprocal partnerships of integrity between Pacific and non-Pacific Researchers as a specific and valuable contribution to building Pacific Peoples capacity in research to redress this shortage.
- Include in the project team, people with experience and knowledge of methodologies and methods applicable to Pacific Peoples research contexts.
- Establish an advisory group to work with the project team and assist in ensuring the researchers and the research is credible, to the range of stakeholders (funding/contracting agency and communities/participants involved).
