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Michael Patton

Pine City
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Content posted to Blue Marble:

Webinar

Fostering an Intergenerational Approach to Transforming Evaluation

In this webinar, we will hear from several young and emerging evaluators and leaders from the EvalYouth Global Network about the ways they are embedding BME principles into their work, both as a network and as individual evaluators. EvalYouth is a global, multi-stakeholder partnership/network that supports and promotes young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) and youth-led accountability around the world.

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Lessons about evaluating responses to the pandemic: Insights from the World Food Program Developmental Evaluation

As we approach the official one year anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic, Michael shares an evaluation of the COVID-19 response by one global humanitarian organization at the center of the worldwide response to the pandemic: the World Food Programme (WFP).

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Year in Review

In this last webinar of 2020, Michael, Glenn and Pablo look back at the year 2020 and reflect on what we have learned about Blue Marble Evaluation's application in this rapidly changing world. Click here to watch a recording of this webinar.

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Perspectives on Precedents: Viewing 2020 in a Larger Historical, Cultural, and Political Context

This dialogue between Kim and Michael addresses the use of the word "unprecedented" to describe 2020 and the historical erasure inherent in its application to a context that is all too familiar to many indigenous people.

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2020 in Words: Insights into the Trajectory of Humanity on the Blue Marble

"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” 

- Rita Mae Brown, American feminist writer


At the end of each year the Oxford English Dictionary selects a word of the year. The selection is both retrospective, chosen because of dramatically increased use in both published and social media, but also prospective, for calling attention to the word of the year tends to increase its use.

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