Human Rights, Equality & Justice

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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.

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.

Webinar

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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Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency

Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee criteria are adequate for business as usual summative and accountability evaluations but are inadequate for addressing major systems transformations.

Author

Michael Quinn Patton

Year

2020

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TRUST on the leading edge of survival

In January, before the pandemic, I offered a blog on Moving at the Speed of Trust: The Role of Blue Marble Evaluation. This is an updated review of how attention to trust has evolved during this turbulent year. In that new year’s blog I wrote:

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Briefing Note Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the 2030 Agenda

An exploration of the implications of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for indigenous peoples.

Year

2015

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Living in Good Relations - Why a Tribal Critical Systems Model is Needed for Evaluation Partnerships and Practice to Address the SDGs

This webinar is now complete. Recording currently unavailable. Please check back soon.

Presenter: Dr. Nicole Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape) of Bowman Performance Consulting and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Author

Nicole Bowman

Year

2019

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Food Systems Summit Synthesis Deep Dive Reports

A Clarion Call for Food Systems Transformation

Relational Systems Thinking

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

Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency

TRUST on the leading edge of survival

Briefing Note Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the 2030 Agenda

Living in Good Relations - Why a Tribal Critical Systems Model is Needed for Evaluation Partnerships and Practice to Address the SDGs