Principle 7: Cross-silos

Resource

Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.

Author

Michael Quinn Patton

Year

2019

Webinar

Transforming the financial Sector With an Eye to Blue Marble Evaluation

This webinar will explore the work Steve has done with TIIP and his vision for engaging Blue Marble Evaluators to help transform the financial sector - with an eye to Large Asset Ownership.

Webinar

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

This webinar highlights, with examples, three major issues related to North-South and South-South dynamics, and consider what these mean for the mindsets and competencies with which we commission and do evaluation.

Resource

Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity: How national governments can secure economic prosperity and avert climate catastrophe by transforming cities

A flagship global report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions.

Year

2019

Event

AEA Session - Becoming a World Savvy Blue Marble Evaluator

This workship will build evalautors' skills at thinking globally.

Event

AEA Session - Blue Marble Evaluation: transforming evaluation to inform global transformation in the Anthropocene

Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 8-9am CST Join us to hear some specific examples of how a Blue Marble perspective is being incorporated in three different evaluation practices.

Resource

Wicked Solutions: A systems approach to complex problems

A book to help you design an inquiry and intervention in complex situations.

Author

Bob Williams and Sjon van ‘t Hof

Year

2014

Case study

Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change

The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) funds 85 agriculture research projects in the Andes and Africa. CCRP’s work has an Agroecological Intensification (AEI) focus based on using ecological principles to sustainably cultivate land. The emphasis is on principles, because the actual practices will vary according to social and ecological contexts. AEI is part of a broader global movement on agroecology.

Resource

Social Innovation Generation: Fostering a Canadian Ecosystem for Systems Change

A book detailing the journey of Social Innovation Generation (SiG), a Canadian convening to build understanding and nurture the conditions across sectors and across the country for social innovations to scale, endure, and have impact.

Author

Geraldine Cahill & Kelsey Spitz

Year

2017

Cross-silos Principle

Connect across sectors and issues.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

Transforming the financial Sector With an Eye to Blue Marble Evaluation

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity: How national governments can secure economic prosperity and avert climate catastrophe by transforming cities

AEA Session - Becoming a World Savvy Blue Marble Evaluator

AEA Session - Blue Marble Evaluation: transforming evaluation to inform global transformation in the Anthropocene

Wicked Solutions: A systems approach to complex problems

Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change

Social Innovation Generation: Fostering a Canadian Ecosystem for Systems Change

Cross-silos Principle