Statement of purpose

Background

Overview

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

Context

Launch of Good Practice guidelines quality research workshop

Acknowledgements

Applying the Principle of Integrity to research and evaluation involving Pacific Peoples

To ensure the integrity of their research work and relationships with Pacific Peoples, officials should:

• Recognise that achieving integrity includes accountability and transparency of information and communication and discussion of the research project purposes, aims, intended, potential benefits for Pacific Peoples, and disclosure of possible risks or harm to Pacific Peoples.
• Consider the need for engagement with Pacific Peoples advisors and participants as early as possible in the project scoping phase.  

Early involvement will help to ensure alignment of processes, resourcing and timing aspects.

• Integrity of preparations for engagement with Pacific Peoples ideally includes gaining knowledge around their socio-economic, socio-cultural and historical contexts within which to understand more fully the positions of Pacific Peoples in New Zealand.
• Develop, as part of the research budget, provision for consultation meetings with individuals, organisations or community representatives or ideally a Pacific Research Reference Group.  Include transport costs, fees for participation, appropriate and accessible venues and the provision of hospitality.
• Include regular consultations in the overall research plan and/or regular meetings with the Pacific Research Reference Group for the research project.
• Ensure the budget for the project includes the need for Pacific Peoples to speak in their own languages and a budget for translation  including conceptual translations where possible with verification through back-translation and piloting.
• To increase integrity it is important to recruit and train culturally appropriate information collectors, analysis and write-up in the language/s of data collection, and cost reimbursement for those providing Pacific Peoples expertise and contributions to these research project activities.
• Applying and referring to the SPEaR Ethics guidelines sections during all research and evaluation activities involving Pacific Peoples is recommended.