SPEaR Good Practice Guidelines 2008: Research and evaluation involving Pacific Peoples
Applying the Principle of Responsiveness to research and evaluation involving Pacific Peoples
To ensure their research work and relationships with Pacific Peoples are responsive, officials should:
- Consider that Pacific Peoples are stakeholders on issues related to project design, and report back to all stakeholders on any subsequent design changes.
- Involve Pacific Peoples as stakeholders through their inclusion in all decision making that impacts on their participation, partnership and possible benefit or harm that arises from the research project.
- Engage Pacific Peoples at the earliest opportunity in the development of appropriate methodology/ies, the development of the research question/s, data gathering tool/s, the analytical task/s and framework/s, analysis, the validation/authentication of analysis, dissemination mechanisms, the determination of report content and subsequent dissemination.
- Ensure that interim project reports and other reporting documents include a summary of consultations, negotiations and decisions that included Pacific Peoples. Reasons for exclusion should also be made explicit.
- Ensure that Pacific Peoples participants are given the opportunity to comment on draft analysis/findings, incorporate their comments in the final draft and whether (and if so how) they wish their input to be acknowledged in any publication activity.
