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Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic
This webinar is now complete. Please click here to watch a recording.
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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.
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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.
