Principle 4: Integration

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.

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.

Organizations Working Together provides a portrait of the various types of organizational collaborations currently taking place and the influence these efforts have in today's global marketplace. Alter and Hage focus on the workings of the most intensive of these cooperative ventures--systemic networks--and demonstrate their effectiveness with data from both the public and private sector. This in-depth study will be of interest to researchers, professors, students, and professionals in organizational studies, sociology, social work, and others concerned with organizations.