Workshop: Evaluating power in partnerships and collaborations (Online 19 & 26 March 2025)
Workshop: Evaluating power in partnerships and collaborations
Date and time: Wednesday 19 March and Wednesday 26 March, 10.00am to 1.00pm AEDT (registration from 9.45am) Registrants are to attend both sessions. (full day workshop - 2 sessions)
Venue: Via Zoom. Details will be emailed to registrants just prior to the workshop start time
Facilitators: Dr Nicholas Vogelpoel and Mallory Pryde
Register online by: 18 March 2025. Spaces limited to 25 participants
Fees (GST inclusive): Members $325.00, AES Organisational member staff $460.00, Non-members $535.00, Student member $155.00, Student non-member $250.00* (GST inclusive) *Students must send proof of their full-time student status to
Workshop Overview
This training is for those working in partnerships and collaborations, with interests in learning and evaluation and navigating the complexities of how power shows up and is distributed between actors.
Much attention is being given to collaborative ways of working for tackling complex challenges, including those related to the sustainability of the planet, the health and wellbeing of populations, and the prosperity of our economies. Partnerships bring together actors from across diverse sectors and settings, creating, subverting and even increasing experiences of power between sectors, people and organisations. Evaluating and learning about power within a collaboration, and how a collaboration influences power structures, is challenging.
This 1-day training provides participants with a practical introduction to evaluating power within partnerships and collaborations, with a focus on how to navigate challenging dynamics from the outset, and work to redistribute power over the life-course of a partnership.
Workshop Content
Through highly interactive sessions, participants will examine the structures, processes and intended outcomes of partnerships, and the different ways that power can be measured, challenged and shared.
Workshop Outcomes
At the end of this training, you will be able to:
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Clearly describe the role and value of evaluation for partnerships and collaborations
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Identify the structures, processes and outcomes of platforms and partnerships
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Recognise different forms and presentations of power within partnerships
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Understand how to evaluate the impact of power, and share learning for improvement with partners
PL competencies
This workshop aligns with competencies in the AES Evaluator’s Professional Learning Competency Framework. The identified domains are:
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Domain 1 – Evaluative attitude and professional practice
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Domain 3 – Culture, stakeholders and context
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Domain 7 – Evaluation Activities
Who should attend?
If you are working in, or interested in, learning about partnerships and improving their performance, then this course is relevant to you. Measuring impact and sustainability is notoriously difficult, and in collaborative partnerships - even more so. You will gain practical skills in exploring manifestations of power within partnerships and identifying meaningful strategies to disrupt and distribute power - and insights into how to use these skills for improving your partnerships and communicating progress.
This course is for anyone working in or interested in partnerships who wants to learn about and evaluate power. Participants may occupy many different roles within platforms or partnerships and no prior experience of learning and evaluation is required. This is foundational and intermediate – assuming some working knowledge of evaluation, with less experience with concepts of power or collaboration.
About the facilitators:
Dr Nicholas Vogelpoel is a leader in the design, implementation and evaluation of complex programs. Nic has particular interests and expertise in designing and implementing learning and evaluation systems for partnerships and platforms. Over the past 15 years, he has been privileged to work with partnerships and programs leading evaluations for global and national funders of international development (DfID, Danida, DFAT, SIDA, Defra, European Commission) with organisations in Australia, Pacific, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. He has designed evaluation systems for major collaborations at World Economic Forum, Wellcome Trust and conducted evaluations for philanthropic organisations and private foundations, universities, government and charities.
Mallory Pryde is a consultant at Day Four Projects who brings 12 years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating partnerships. She’s been fortunate to work with both Not-for-Profit and for-purpose organisations at a grassroots, national and international context from international development, nature conservation, union and philanthropic sectors. Mallory has led national interest based bargaining negotiations, negotiated national policy change and managed movement based alliances. She has recently implemented evaluative and research initiatives for the Australian Volunteers Program, Climateworks, World Vision, Westpac Foundation, Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia Humanitarian Partnership and the University of Melbourne.
Workshop start times
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VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS, QLD: 10.00am
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QLD: 9.00am
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SA: 9.30am
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NT: 8.30am
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WA: 7.00am
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New Zealand: 12.00pm
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For other time zones please go to https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Event Information
| Event Date | 19 Mar 2025 10:00am |
| Event End Date | 26 Mar 2025 1:00pm |
| Cut Off Date | 18 Mar 2025 4:00pm |
| Location | Zoom |
| Categories | Online Workshops |