Principle 9: Yin-Yang - 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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Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve

Leave a Comment / Blog Posts / Michael_Patton / September 7, 2020 / Climate, COVID-19, Dataviz, Health & Well-Being, Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context, Principle 6: GLOCAL, Principle 8: Time being of the essence, Principle 9: Yin-Yang

It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. I predicted at the time that the widely communicated and highly effective graphic disseminated by CDC (2020) would become the world’s most famous, influential, and recognizable graphic visualization.

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