Abstract Governments of highly developed western nations with colonised Indigenous populations such as Australia, Canada and South Africa are increasingly turning to social procurement policies in an attempt to solve social inequities between Indigenous people and other citizens. They seek to use policies and funds attached to infrastructure development and construction to encourage private sector companies to provide training, employment and business opportunities for Indigenous people in the communities in which construction occurs. This paper outlines the rise of these policies and their origins, and critiques their connection to Indigenous people’s human rights, impact measurement, evaluation and accountability mechanisms. In doing so this paper also explores benefits and potential of social procurement policies, as well as risks. Drawing on insights from an Aboriginal-developed evaluation framework, Ngaa-bi-nya, and Indigenous Standpoint Theory, this paper highlights Indigenous peoples’ definitions of value and outlines their relevance to social procurement. Introducing the notion of cultural counterfactuals into social impact measurement research, it also offers a new conceptual framework to enable policymakers and practitioners to more accurately account for social procurement value and impact, including Indigenous people’s notions of social value.

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评估社会采购政策对土著人民的影响

摘要在澳大利亚，加拿大和南非等拥有殖民地土著居民的高度发达的西方国家，政府越来越多地转向社会采购政策，以解决土著人民与其他公民之间的社会不平等问题。他们试图利用与基础设施开发和建设有关的政策和资金来鼓励私营公司为发生建设的社区中的原住民提供培训，就业和商业机会。本文概述了这些政策的兴起及其起源，并对它们与土著人民的人权，影响衡量，评估和问责机制的联系进行了批评。在此过程中，本文还探讨了社会采购政策的收益和潜力以及风险。本文借鉴了土著发展的评估框架Ngaa-bi-nya和土著立场理论的见解，着重强调了土著人民的价值定义，并概述了其与社会采购的相关性。将文化反事实的概念引入社会影响度量研究中，它还提供了一个新的概念框架，使决策者和从业人员能够更准确地说明社会采购价值和影响，包括土著人民的社会价值概念。