Editor’s Remarks

This issue of CJPE reflects the importance of context, community, voice and relationships in evaluation practice, whether in an Indigenous urban community in the US, a virtual environment during the pandemic, a provincial office in PEI, or in communities in Southeastern Africa.Our need to build understanding and connection grounds our practice.I am particularly delighted to introduce this issue of CJPE, as it provides our first Indigenous publications in the new section of the journal "Roots and Relations: Celebrating Good Medicine in Indigenous Evaluation," co-edited by Larry Bremner and Nicole Bowman.Tere are three submissions in our new Roots and Relations section: a submission by Sofa Locklear, Martell Hesketh, Natalyn Begay, Jennifer Brixey, Abigail Echo-Hawk, and Rosalina James describes the use of an urban Indigenous framework designed to empower the community to reclaim their narratives and tell their stories.Te paper by Melanie Nadeau, Vanessa Tibbitts, Ryan Eagle, and Gretchen Dobervich describes the use of an Indigenous evaluation framework to evaluate a state-wide health improvement plan.Te third submission is a poem and narrative piece co-written by Katie Boone and Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo.T ese three submissions inspire us to refect on evaluation as a way to build connections to people and place, build capacity, and empower people to share their stories and create their own narratives.Tere are also four other papers in the issue.Te article by Muazzez Nihal Öykü Ülker, Esa Kerimoğlu and Şaban Berk discusses the use of metaevaluation as a resource for assessing evaluation quality by helping to inform evaluators of the utility, feasibility, propriety, and accuracy of their work.Te next article is a practice note by Bobby Tomas Cameron that describes an evaluation policy development process that, through the co-development of codifed standards and guidelines, led to new connections among coworkers and helped build evaluation capacity within the organization.Te practice note written by Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa describes a baseline study that used a participant coded narrative process to understand how people in the Limpopo and Okavango River Basins understand resilience across the diversity of their contexts.Te third and f nal practice note by Paisley Worthington, Cheryl Mak, Michael Holden, and Michelle Searle explores the use of the Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation (CAE) principles to explore the nature of connection and relationship building in a virtual environment.We also have three book reviews in this issue: Van den Berg, Hawking and Stame (

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