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Transformative Engagement: Blue Marble Evaluators’ role in uncovering social structures that limit human potential
Several members of the BME network will be presenting the following session at the American Evaluation Conference:
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Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports
Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) teams have been working to synthesize themes across the hundreds of Independent Dialogues, resulting in three overall synthesis reports and four deep-dives into the perspectives of women, smallholder farmers,
Indigenous peoples and youth.
Blog post
A Clarion Call for Food Systems Transformation
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.
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Praxis Makes Perfect? Transcending Textbooks to Learning Evaluation Experientially and in Cultural Contexts
This article provides aspiring Blue Marble Evaluators with an alternative framework for thinking about professional development outside of “formal” and “scholarly” learning spaces. Particularly relevant in the context of the anthropocene, the article offers experiential learning in the field and within cultural contexts as a much-needed professional design component for developing responsive, effective, and transformative evaluators.
Author
Nicole Bowman-Farrell (Waapalaneexkweew)
Year
2021
Webinar
Relational Systems Thinking
This webinar was a celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Working group and introduced the work of the hosts of our 13th workstream - Decolonizing Systems Mapping - the Turtle Island Institute.
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Relational Systems Thinking: That’s How Change Is Going to Come, from Our Earth Mother
This article explores the notion of the need to decolonize systems thinking and awareness. Taking a specifically Indigenous approach to both knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, the authors look at awareness based systems change via a Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) two row visual code. The authors explore the sacred space between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of thinking and knowing, to identify pathways for peaceful co-existence of epistemologies.
Author
Melanie Goodchild
Year
2021
Webinar
Fostering an Intergenerational Approach to Transforming Evaluation
In this webinar, we will hear 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.
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Reuniting Nature and Culture: The North American Declaration on Biocultural Diversity
The North American Regional Declaration on Biocultural Diversity declaration contains principles and actions to make communities more resilient and strengthen the ties between biological and cultural diversity.
Year
2019
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Indicators of Well-being Webinar Series
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation hosts a biannual webinar series on Indicators of Well-being in, with, by, and for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The webinars are intended to provide a virtual platform for learning and exchange among practitioners who are actively using, or have interest in using, place-based monitoring and reporting indicators on well-being or related metrics that bridge social and ecological dimensions, nature and culture, people and place.
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Whose Land is it Anyway? Decolonization Manual
Author
Peter McFarlane and Nicole Shabus
Year
2017
