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Leadership-evaluation partnership: Infusing systems principles and complexity concepts for a transformational alliance

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food provides a case exemplar of incorporating systems thinking, complexity understandings, and developmental evaluation into systems transformation work. This trans-formational engagement is not just rhetoric but is deeply embedded as the focus of the Global Alliance’s ongoing work. It is, importantly, predicated on in-depth and long-term cocreation and collaboration between alliance leadership and an independent external evaluator.

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Ruth Richardson & Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2021

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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.

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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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Independent Dialogues Leading to the UN Food Systems Summit

Blue Marble Evaluation has completed its second review of more than 100 discussions out of more than 600 Independent Dialogues taking place globally found 10 common criteria for successful food systems transformation ahead of the Pre-Summit gathering in Rome.

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The 2021 World Food Systems Summit & BME

In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit aims to support transformation of the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food.

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

As we approach the official one year anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic, Michael shares an evaluation of the COVID-19 response by one global humanitarian organization at the center of the worldwide response to the pandemic: the World Food Programme (WFP).

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Food and Agriculture Systems: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

In writing about transformation in Blue Marble Evaluation, I quoted Million Belay, coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, who said: “At last there is a realization that change, fundamental change in the way we are living, is needed.” I met Million at

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Transforming Small Scale Fisheries with a Blue Marble Lens: the Case of West Africa

This webinar explores the integration principle of Blue Marble Evaluatino, with a case study on sustainable fisheries.

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Transforming Food Systems with Beacons of Hope

Learn more about how Beacons of Hope is working to transform the global food system, and how they are using Blue Marble Evaluation to support this work. 

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Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems

This report presents the key highlights and contributions from the conference ‘Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems’. This conference was held on 3-4 April 2019 in Wageningen, the Netherlands and was the twelfth annual ‘M&E on the Cutting Edge’ conference. This event was organised by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) in collaboration with Wageningen Economic Research and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform.

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Cecile Kusters, Hermine ten Hove, Diane Bosch, Marion Herens and Seerp Wigboldus
Year
2019

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