About us

Pandanus Evaluation is a Northern Territory owned and based independent planning and evaluation consultancy. We provide high-quality planning, research and evaluation services throughout the Northern Territory, Australia and the Pacific.

Our Vision:

All programs that aim to improve peoples’ lives are strengthened and supported through evaluation.

Our Values:

  • Taking time and making time for people and context
  • Building capacity of individuals and organisations and supporting them to ‘do’ evaluation
  • Evaluation practice that is inclusive, useful, and contextually relevant

Our team of consultants have over 30 years’ combined experience in community engagement, strategic planning, and building organisational and individual capacity to conduct ethical and useful planning, research and evaluation.

Pandanus Evaluation embeds capacity development and organisational learning as a key component of our work and are confident in developing and facilitating customised research and evaluation training to meet the specific needs of clients and communities.  

Our practice includes:

* Participatory, utilisation-focussed evaluation

* Evaluation with First Nations’ peoples, community groups and NGOs.

* Supporting groups that are new to evaluation to plan and conduct evaluations that matter

* Evaluation capacity development and mentoring for individuals and organisations

* ‘Getting started in evaluation’ training

* Development of policy and practice guidelines

* Program development and planning