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Remote Developmental Evaluation: A Guide for Funders and Practitioners

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / December 16, 2021 / Adaptive Management, COVID-19, Developmental Evaluation, Innovation, International Development, Monitoring & Evaluation, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

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 […]

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Fostering an Intergenerational Approach to Transforming Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / December 16, 2021 / Climate, Culture & Ethnicity, Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Education, EvalYouth, Gender, Global Networks, Innovation, Race, Sustainability

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

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A Clarion Call for Food Systems Transformation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / August 17, 2021 / Biodiversity, Climate, Consumption & Production, Culture & Ethnicity, Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, Equality & Justice, Food security, Food Systems Summit, Gender, Health & Well-Being, Human Migration, Human Rights, Industrialization & Infrastructure, Innovation, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Race, Sustainability

As part of preparation and building momentum for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit more than 900 Independent Dialogues have taken place around the world. These Summit Dialogues aim to offer a seat at the table to all interested stakeholders, giving them an opportunity to debate, collaborate, and provide input into deliberations on the future of food. Conveners of

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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / March 29, 2021 / Children & Youth, Culture & Ethnicity, Education, Employment, Equality & Justice, Gender, Global Networks, Health & Well-Being, Human Rights, Innovation, International Development, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 13: Theory of Transformation, Principle 15: Transformational Alignment, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Principle 9. Yin-Yang, Race

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble. Various levels of governments

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Blue Marble Evaluation Featured at Esri Geodesign Conference

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Glenn_Page / March 6, 2020 / Design, Globalization, Industrialization & Infrastructure, Innovation, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement

In August of last summer, in Portland Maine, I wanted to know if people were interested in the idea of transformations systems mapping and analysis. So, I brought together leaders in Blue Marble Evaluation as well as experts in systems mapping for a design charrette on this topic – and to see if anybody cared,

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