Principle 11: World Savvy - Blue Marble Evaluation

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

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / admin / May 5, 2021 / Decolonization & Indigenous Sovereignty, International Development, Poverty, Principle 11: World Savvy, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 9: Yin-Yang, Transformation

Description: World-savvy, glocally-orientated evaluators have to be adept at working across all sorts of silos and boundaries. Over the past 3-4 decades, North-South cooperation in the ‘aid’ or philanthropy sectors has been an important focus for evaluation; much less so South-South, North-North or triangular cooperation. Despite some recent shifts, significant differences remain between the ‘Global South’ […]

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Blue Marble Evaluation Principles in Japanese

Leave a Comment / Tools, Websites / admin / March 1, 2021 / Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 10: Bricolage Methods, Principle 11: World Savvy, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 13: Theory of Transformation, Principle 14: Transformation Fidelity, Principle 15: Transformational Alignment, Principle 16: Evaluation as Intervention, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 3: Transformative Engagement, Principle 4: Integration, Principle 5: Trsboundary Engagement, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 7: Cross-Silos, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Principle 9: Yin-Yang

Blue Marble Japan, Inc. aims to facilitate system transformation to realize a sustainable world. They have translated the Blue Marble Principles into Japanese. Click here to view the principles Download the principles

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Lessons about evaluating responses to the pandemic: Insights from the World Food Program Developmental Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / January 22, 2021 / Food security, Principle 1: Global Thinking, Principle 11: World Savvy, World Food Programme

Blue Marble Evaluation Context The first overarching Blue Marble Evaluation principle is the Global Thinking Principle: Apply whole-Earth big-picture thinking to all aspects of systems change. The World Food Programme (WFP) epitomizes that principle. The pandemic, as a global challenge, requires Global Thinking. In evaluating WFP’s response to the pandemic, global thinking is critical. Working

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Identifying and living into your Personal Principles – What it truly means to have skin in the game

Leave a Comment / Webinar Recordings / Nora_Murphy_Johnson / May 6, 2020 / Principle 11: World Savvy, Principle 12: Skin-in-the-game, Principle 6: GLOCAL

In this webinar, Nora Murphy Johnson applies the Blue Marble Perspective to our personal development as blue marble evaluators. Because people and systems are interrelated and interdependent, global systems transformation will not happen without individual inner transformation. But what does that mean? And how do we chart our own individual transformation journeys? Hint: It starts with seeing

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World Savvy Global Competence Matrix

Leave a Comment / Websites / admin / January 1, 2020 / Global Competence, Principle 11: World Savvy, Principle1: Global Thinking

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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