With intention, moving safely: Relational decision-making at the heart of evaluation bricolage

This article discusses how evaluation bricolage, when foregrounded by relationality and informed by multicultural validity, offers potential for transparent decision-making within evaluative bricolage. The authors intentionally explore the risks and the opportunities that lie within weaving paradigms, something often not spoken of in evaluation bricolage. In doing so, they advocate for a shift in paradigm to indigeneity that centres being in relationship and relational accountability as primary conditions of bricolage. The authors state that applying multicultural validity as a supportive decision-making framework can broaden our ability to centre context, culture and values within bricolage. In turn, ways of knowing, being and doing that strengthen the overall trustworthiness of evaluation, including bricolage, can be brought forward. Finally, the authors illustrate, through an example from evaluation practice, how multicultural validity centred on relational accountability acknowledges and legitimises diverse worldviews, value systems and knowledge traditions.