Global challenges in securing equity and human rights: Re-envisioning the role for evaluation in the contemporary HIV/AIDS epidemic

Kia ora. It is an honour to join you in this important discussion of evaluation's role and contribution to creating equitable societies. I am speaking to you from my current hometown of Okemos, Michigan, in the United States (US) rather than, as I had hoped, in a conference meeting room in Rotorua. Okemos is rightfully Ojibwe tribal land. Chief Okemos, after whom the town is named, was the Ojibwe chief who represented his people when they, along with the Ottawa and Potawatomi, were forced to yield their territory to the US government in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. Michigan State University also sits on the forcibly surrendered lands of the Three Fires Confederacy.