International Development

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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble. Various levels of governments are by far the largest stakeholders in transformative engagements as systems where the public service, GUIDEd by principles of democracy, respect for peoples, integrity, and stewardship are entrusted to serve the people and navigate us through the pandemic.

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Remote Developmental Evaluation: A Guide for Funders and Practitioners

Join us for a roundtable discussion with representatives from six developmental evaluations that contributed to the effort by Social Impact to develop a Guide for implementing remote developmental evaluations.

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Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

This webinar provides an in-depth look at how one foundation applied the Blue Marble Evaluation principles to their work.

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A Guest Post from Elena Bonometti following our Conversation with Tostan

Founded in 1991, Tostan is best known for its outstanding contributions to the movement for the abandonment of female genital cutting and child marriage in Africa. Tostan is widely recognized as a leader in building community well-being grounded in human rights. Tostan realizes its mission of empowering African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation through its non- formal, holistic, education program, the Community Empowerment Program (CEP).

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Thresholds of Transformation: How r3.0 Defines “Progress”

r3.0 (Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration) just hosted its 7th International Conference in September. In this webinar, they present a round-up of activity from it.

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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.

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SDG Transormations Forum

"Many pressing challenges require transformation, rather than incremental change and trade-offs. These ‘grand challenges’ are reflected in the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the nations of the world in September 2015 at a meeting titled Transforming Our World, and in the December 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (together called Agenda 2030).

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Evaluation Criteria for Transformation: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

Climate change and the global emergency changes everything. The global mandate heard everywhere now is TRANSFORMATION. Business-as-usual criteria (like the revised DAC Network on Development Evaluation evaluation criteria) are not adequate for evaluating transformation.

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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.

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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

Remote Developmental Evaluation: A Guide for Funders and Practitioners

Principles-Driven Responsive Philanthropy: Building Bridges Across Communities for Peace, Prosperity and Planet

A Guest Post from Elena Bonometti following our Conversation with Tostan

Thresholds of Transformation: How r3.0 Defines “Progress”

The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

SDG Transormations Forum

Evaluation Criteria for Transformation: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective

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