This Blue Marble Evaluation community was formed in 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nearly everything in our world. We have been so grateful to have this virtual community over the past three years to navigate the changing landscape of our world together. In 2023, we will host monthly community gatherings that are more […]
Third Thursdays with BME Read More »
Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) teams have been working to synthesize themes across the hundreds of Independent Dialogues, resulting in the following reports: Interim Synthesis Report 1: Based on the initial 17 feedback forms, presents a generative and illustrative set of emerging themes. Interim Synthesis Report 2: More than 100 Independent Dialogues have produced 10 guiding themes. Final Synthesis
Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports Read More »
Check out an in-depth ESRI Story Map introducing the Working Group here! Transformations Systems Workstreams Academic Pathways and Careers Collaboratory, Gulf of Maine, Indicators, Scorecards, Dashboards, LatinAfrique XChange, Mapping the inner dimensions, Systems Thinkers Mapping Who’s Involved, Transformations Systems Mapping Tool Kit, Transformative Capacities for Navigating Crisis, Unifying Framework, WG Integration – Inclusion, Generosity, Story & Flow, What Is Transformation?
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Are you a development practitioner, academic or donor interested in the design and implementation of programmes that serve people and the planet, that contribute to global programmes while implementing locally? Are you an evaluator working in southern Africa and interested in understanding how interventions are contributing to change in complex and dynamic contexts and keen
Establishing a Blue Marble Evaluation Hub in Southern Africa Read More »
This webinar by Social Impact explores the essential principles of developmental evaluation (DE) and how funders adapt them to in a variety of scenarios and contexts. As DE gains traction, people are implementing them in different ways and taking full advantage of DE’s commitment to flexibility. But how much flexibility it too much? What is
Evidence for Impact Webinar: Developmental Evaluation Read More »
By 米原 あき (著, 編集), 佐藤 真久 (著, 編集), 長尾 眞文 (著, 編集) 本書では、「SDGs時代の評価─価値を引き出し、変容を促す営み」と題して、筆者らのミクロ実践からマクロ政策までの幅広い知見のもとで、SDGs時代の評価に関わる考察が行われてきた。各章のキーワードは、『SDGs時代における評価概念のシフト』、『評価における社会変容と個人変容の連動』、『国際協力の協働パートナーシップ』、『通域的な学び』、『発展的評価』、『ブルーマーブル評価』であった。そして、これらの論考には、価値をめぐる協働と学びの取り組みがあり、価値の問い直し、価値の意味づけ、価値の共創の取り組みへの主体的なコミットメントが見られる。 Book available on Amazon Year 2022 Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL
Evaluation in the SDGs Era – SDGs時代の評価: 価値を引き出し、変容を促す営み (SDGs時代のESDと社会的レジリエンス研究叢書 5) Read More »
When we set out to create the Blue Marble Evaluation network, it is safe to say that we did not really know what we were doing. We received a lot of great advice and tremendous support from the McKnight Foundation and from many of our members and friends. We have been overwhelmed with the positive
2021 Reflections from the BME Advisory Council Read More »
This webinar provides an in-depth look at how one foundation applied the Blue Marble Evaluation principles to their work. GHR Foundation, an independent foundation based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, exists to be of service to people and their limitless potential for good. In 2016, the global call from Pope Francis to “build bridges, not walls”
Developmental Evaluation (DE) seeks to enhance programs by strengthening innovation and adaptation, in part through physically embedding evaluators within projects. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a shift to remote work, encouraging DE implementers to do what they do best — innovate and adapt — to continue remotely. In response, USAID/Indonesia commissioned Social Impact to prepare a Guide
Remote Developmental Evaluation: A Guide for Funders and Practitioners Read More »
In this webinar, we heard 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. The
Fostering an Intergenerational Approach to Transforming Evaluation Read More »
