Final report : Rapport final : évaluation de l'incidence de la Stratégie pour les Autochtones vivant en milieu urbain

The evaluation highlights that “as a horizontal strategy for building a coordinated approach to service delivery between the provinces and the federal government, (the UAS) is a pragmatic way of addressing the current population demographics of the Aboriginal population, while acknowledging both the special relationship that Aboriginal people have with the federal government, and provincial jurisd [...] It includes a background of the Strategy, a description of the objectives and expected outcomes, the resources that were allocated to the UAS, and an overview of the Strategy’s management and stakeholders. [...] As noted in the 2008 RMAF/RBAF, OFI is responsible for ongoing financial and operational monitoring, the audit of program recipient’s fulfilment of the terms and conditions of contribution agreements and the reliability of the outcome data.8 The management and delivery of UAS projects is carried out using one of two community-based approaches. [...] The 2005 Formative Evaluation12 The main focus of the 2005 formative evaluation was to assess whether the pilot projects, and the pilot project phase of the UAS as a whole, was proceeding as intended, and identify any problems with implementation that need to be addressed. [...] In addition, the evaluation was designed to address questions of interest to the Department, specifically, to provide an analysis of the quality and relevance of performance data17 and to provide an overview of progress made in addressing the recommendations of past departmental evaluations and audits.