Webinar
Establishing a Blue Marble Evaluation Hub in Southern Africa
This webinar is focused on the development of an African Blue Mable Evaluation hub.
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Know and face the realities of the Anthropocene and act accordingly.
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Footprint Evaluation
Footprint evaluation focuses on the ‘footprint’ that human systems make on natural systems. This requires attention to the nexus between human systems and natural systems. Footprint evaluation is grounded in the premise that all evaluations should include consideration of environmental sustainability, even when this is not a stated goal of the intervention. This is so that decision-making can take into account the potential and actual impacts of planned interventions (projects, programs, policies) on the environment.
Author
Patricia Rogers
Year
2021
Webinar
Regenerate Costa Rica + Blue Marble Baseline = Learning by Doing
Join us as we learn about Regenerate Costa Rica's transformative vision and how they have begun the process of developing one of the world's first Blue Marble Baselines and a future Blue Marble Hub for adaptive learning through implementation towards regeneration across Central America.
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Relational Systems Thinking
This webinar was a celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Working group and introduced the work of the hosts of our 13th workstream - Decolonizing Systems Mapping - the Turtle Island Institute.
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Principes du Blue Marble
Author
Andrealisa Belzer and Seyba Cissokho
Year
2021
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LEARNING AS YOU GO IN BECOMING PART OF THE SOLUTION AS A BLUE MARBLE EVALUATOR (BME) IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
For evaluators both internal and external working directly/indirectly for/or with the social innovators in the public/not-for-profit sector who find themselves dealing with problems, trying out strategies, and striving to achieve goals that emerge from their engagement with the change process. BME is a global initiative focused on training the next generation of evaluators, urging us to know and face the realities of the Anthropocene & act accordingly.
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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic
What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble. Various levels of governments are by far the largest stakeholders in transformative engagements as systems where the public service, GUIDEd by principles of democracy, respect for peoples, integrity, and stewardship are entrusted to serve the people and navigate us through the pandemic.
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The 2021 World Food Systems Summit & BME
In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit aims to support transformation of the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food.
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Principios Blue-Marble
Author
Pablo Vidueira
Year
2020
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Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency
Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee criteria are adequate for business as usual summative and accountability evaluations but are inadequate for addressing major systems transformations.
Author
Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2020
