International Development

Webinar

The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

This webinar will explore what strong institutions would mean based on a study of African research institutions. The webinar will explore the decolonisation of research as a proxy for decolonising development more broadly in addressing the challenges we face collectively.

Webinar

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

This webinar highlights, with examples, three major issues related to North-South and South-South dynamics, and consider what these mean for the mindsets and competencies with which we commission and do evaluation.

Blog post

Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

The McKnight Foundation has supported the first of the Blue Marble Evaluation innovators — from Michael Quinn Patton and the World Savvy team, to the evaluators embedded in the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and the Collaborative Crop Research Program. This initial Blue Marble Cohort has learned from each other, challenged each other, and is actively providing critical tools and frameworks for the field. Writing on the day of the launch of Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles in Minneapolis, Jane Maland Cady, Program Director, International – McKnight Foundation, explains that the work has only begun and why it’s important to use this approach to evaluation to address the critical challenges facing our one and only planet.

Resource

Theory of Transformation Part I

Presenters: Michael Quinn Patton & Glenn Page

Summary: In this webinar, held on Earth Day 2019, Glenn and Michael explore the realities of the Anthropocene that necessitate the move towards global systems transformation. Glenn Page offers a history of the focus on global systems transformation and explores what is needed from a transformation systems theory standpoint.

Author

Michael Quinn Patton and Glenn Page

Year

2019

Resource

Integrating big data into the monitoring and evaluation of development programmes

This report provides guidelines for evaluators, evaluation and programme managers, policy makers and funding agencies on how to take advantage of the rapidly emerging field of big data in the design and implementation of systems for monitoring and evaluating development programmes.

Author

Michael Bamberger

Year

2016

Resource

Connecting the dots for sustainable development

A reflection on challenges and opportunities for sustainable development.

Author

Paula Caballero

Year

2015

Case study

Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change

The Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) funds 85 agriculture research projects in the Andes and Africa. CCRP’s work has an Agroecological Intensification (AEI) focus based on using ecological principles to sustainably cultivate land. The emphasis is on principles, because the actual practices will vary according to social and ecological contexts. AEI is part of a broader global movement on agroecology.

Resource

Dealing with complexity in development. evaluation: a practical approach.

Author

Bamberger, M., Vaessen, J., Raimondo E.

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The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

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

Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

Theory of Transformation Part I

Integrating big data into the monitoring and evaluation of development programmes

Connecting the dots for sustainable development

Evaluating Agriculture Systems Change

Dealing with complexity in development. evaluation: a practical approach.