Newsletter

Check out our latest newsletter for information about upcoming events and ways to connect with BME.

Equinox Edition Welcome Back! As we begin to see signs of fall in the northern hemisphere and prepare to welcome spring in the south, we are happy to be back in action! It's been a few months since we sent out a newsletter, but we are making up for it with an email chock full of goodies. Here are a few highlights:  Food Systems Summit: read about the BME team's work on the UN Food Systems Summit, which will take place in New York this week. Upcoming Events, including Evaluator's Institute Workshops, a CREA Symposium, BME webinar, CECAN webinar & Eval4Action's Walk the Talk video drive. Featured Resources: the new report from Social Impact on 10 Years of USAID Developmental Evaluation, a recording of this month's webinar on Evaluation in the SDGs Era and more. BME Network News: an update from the Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Working Group and on our members. 

As we look ahead to the June solstice, we are taking a breather from producing new content over the summer months (here in the northern hemisphere) to do some work on our network structure and the support we offer to our members. We will return with new webinars and programming in September. In the meantime, we encourage you to take a look at some of our recorded webinars and resources, as well as to begin thinking about producing your own content to contribute to the network! 

Read about what is happening at BME this month and how you can get involved.

This month, we are happy to introduce you to Blue Marble Evaluation's new Global Advisory Council. This group will be supporting our network as we work to build the capacity of Blue Marble Evaluators and build demand for Blue Marble Evaluation globally. We are also celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the Transformation Systems Mapping and Analysis Group, formed one year ago on Earth Day, with a webinar on Relational Systems Thinking. There are many more opportunities to engage with BME coming up over the next few months. Read on for details and join us!

Last week, we passed the one-year mark of COVID-19 being declared by WHO as a global pandemic. Blue Marble Evaluation calls us to zoom in on the local impact of this milestone and zoom out to see the global trends and impact. We see that there are disparities both within and between countries in how the COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed, just as there have been disparities in both infections and deaths. Join us this month as we explore our role as Blue Marble Evaluators navigating the pandemic.

February is full of celebrations and observances: Black History Month, Lunar Year, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras to name just a few. We started the month with another song from MQP to the tune of Season's of Love and have been thinking a lot about love and how important it is to our skin in the game principle. As the poet, bell hooks reminds us, "Love is an action. Never simply a feeling." So how are you putting your love into action this month? Check out the resources section below for some thoughts and share yours with us on Twitter or LinkedIn #BlueMarbleLove

Happy New Year! We spent much of last year introducing Blue Marble Evaluation to our members and friends. Now that we have built a foundation together, we plan to offer a number of opportunities for you to deepen your engagement with one another and with the principles of BME. Read on for more information about what is coming up in the next month and stay tuned for more to come. As always, if you have and idea, resource or opportunity you'd like to share with the network, please let us know!