Apply whole-Earth, big-picture thinking to all aspects of systems change.
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Have you started reading Michael's new book, Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles yet?
If not, this is great motivation to read it alongside other fellow BME members!
If so, perhaps you have questions and thoughts you'd like to share with Michael and others?
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Book Club Recording!
If you missed the first book club conversation, you can listen to the recording here.
Michael started with about a 20 minute overview of the book and the first chapter. Then took questions. Some highlights include...
- a discussion of the connection between the global thinking principle and the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice and the SDGs
- the importance of true cost accounting
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This report presents the key highlights and contributions from the conference ‘Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems’. This conference was held on 3-4 April 2019 in Wageningen, the Netherlands and was the twelfth annual ‘M&E on the Cutting Edge’ conference. This event was organised by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) in collaboration with Wageningen Economic Research and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform.
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World Savvy is a 501c3 organization based in the United States that works to build global competence in middle and high school students and educators.
World Savvy's approach was an early inspiration for Blue Marble Evaluation. Their Global Competence Matrix offers insight into what core concepts, values, skills and dispositions might be relevant for Blue Marble Evaluators.
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Evaluation is no longer just a back-end activity assessing whether goals have been attained. By integrating design, engagement, and evaluation, a Blue Marble evaluation team can support accomplishing a range of tasks in developing both local and global systems change initiatives. This resource provides a checklist of Blue Marble contributions that can be used as both a reminder of possibilities for evaluators and a menu of options for those designing and implementing systems change initiatives.
