IPDET lighted the Evaluation Torch to
celebrate the International year of
Evaluation -- the 37th time the torch
was lighted this year
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The international movement to
strengthen national evaluation
capacities
Five ways to
celebrate 2015 the International
Year of Evaluation!
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“We can not solve our problems
with the same level of thinking
that created them.”
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From International to Global
Are we ready for….
Evaluators without borders
First, some context and perspective
You can't see the Earth as a globe
unless you get at least twenty
thousand miles away from it.
 Only 24 humans ever went that far
into outer space -- the three-person
crews of the nine Apollo missions that
traveled to the moon between 1968
and 1972.
The Blue Marble Shot
 But only the 3 in the last Apollo
mission saw a full Earth and
took the first complete photo
of Earth
December 7, 1972
The first photograph taken of the
whole round Earth
 The only one ever snapped by a
human being.
The Blue Marble Shot
Taking a Blue Marble Perspective
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National boundaries: the result of war, colonialism,
enslavement, exploitation, genocide, oppression,
greed, politics, religious persecution….
Global problems transcend
national and agency boundaries
• Climate change
• Economic turbulence
• Refugees
• Virulent infectious diseases
• Dying oceans
• Global terrorism
• International drug cartels
• Poverty and inequality
Global problems….
• The definitions of the problems are disputed
• The “facts” are a matter of intense debate
• Politics and special interests dominate:
-- national interests
-- multi-national corporate interests
-- agency agendas
-- competition for resources
• The stakes are huge
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“We can not solve our problems
with the same level of thinking
that created them.”
Where will we get and
how will we train…
• Blue Marble Evaluators
• Global Systems Evaluators
• World Systems Thinkers as
Evaluators
• Evaluators without borders,
boundaries and blinders
Connecting the dots for sustainable
development
PAULA CABALLERO
Senior Director, Environment and
Natural Resources Global Practice, The World Bank
May 27, 2015
• This is a year in which the health of the
planet is finally understood to be of central
concern to the future of people. A year in
which the management of natural
resources – from fish stocks and fresh
water, to fertile soil, forest habitats and the
carbon in the atmosphere - is understood
to have significant national, international
and inter-generational consequences.
• http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/connecting-dots-2015-for-sustainabledevelopment?CID=ENW_TTEnvironmentEN_D_EXT
Climate change, water shortages and other
environmental crises are bringing home the message
loud and clear: we need to connect the dots
between human actions across the landscape and
seascape, or the earth will cease to care for us. It will
cease to grow food, to store water, to host fish and
pollinators, to provide energy, medicine and timber.
Changing temperatures will stress systems already
overwhelmed by unsustainable patterns of
production and consumption, while a growing
middle class will further strain planetary boundaries.
• Many of the solutions however will require
breaking down the walls of specific sectors –
forestry, agriculture, energy, transport, health – and
working with a variety of stakeholders across
landscapes, seascapes and cities to achieve
multiple goals at once. There simply isn’t enough
time or money to pursue isolated and contradictory
solutions.
The world is getting smaller –
more constrained and
interconnected. We have an
opportunity to apply system-wide
thinking and leverage data to
solve the challenges of our time.
Where will we find and how can
we train…
• Evaluators beyond sector borders
• Evaluators beyond disciplinary
blinders
• Evaluators beyond agency
boundaries
• Evaluators who think beyond
project methods
Global Challenges
for
Blue Marble Evaluators
June 4:
Study reported in Science finds no
pause in Global Warming
More comprehensive temperature
measurements suggest previous results were
inaccurate
The new study concludes that the upward
trend of global temperatures didn't slow this
century, contrary to previous analyses that
suggested the world is in the midst of a global
warming hiatus.
The Holocene extinction, sometimes
called the Sixth Extinction, describes
the current & ongoing loss of species
during the present epoch mainly due to
human activity -- spanning numerous
families of plants and animals -including mammals, birds,
amphibians, reptiles and arthropods.
The International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural
Resources,[1] the vast majority are
undocumented estimates the present
rate of extinction may be up to 140,000
species per year.[2]
Ocean has seen an unprecedented
rise in heat content over the past
decade due to a transfer of heat from
Pacific Ocean, reports Climate Central
Choking the Oceans With Plastic
Plastics are now one of the most common pollutants
of ocean waters worldwide. Pushed by winds, tides
and currents, plastic particles form with other debris
into large swirling glutinous accumulation zones,
known to oceanographers as gyres, which comprise
as much as 40 percent of the planet’s ocean surface
— roughly 25 percent of the entire earth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/opinion/choking-the-oceans-with-plastic.html?_r=1
"Microplastic debris in the North Pacific
increased by two orders of magnitude between
1972–1987 and 1999–2010 in both numerical
and mass concentrations.“
http://io9.com/5911969/lies-youve-been-told-about-the-pacific-garbage-patch
The plastisphere is an ecosystem out of balance.
“The danger is that this could alter the open ocean
forever — and destroy all the native life there that
has kept the oceans healthy for thousands of years.”
Marine biologist Miriam Goldstein
The Armageddon SuperVirus
Fear of a disease that leaps from animals to humans
to devastate humankind
2008
Great Global Economic Recession
8 Days That Shook the World
No liquidity
Global Hunger
New Map Charts Progress of 129
Nations as World Hunger Falls to 25Year Low
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150527-hunger-fao-report-undernourishedhungry/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20150527newshunger&utm_campaign=Content&sf9557290=1
Global Hunger
• The number of hungry people in the world has steadily
declined to a 25-year low, thanks largely to economic
prosperity in China and other developing countries.
• A quarter century ago, more than 1 billion people
trapped in poverty lacked access to enough food to live
a healthy life.
• Today, the number of undernourished people stands at
795 million, according to the UN’s annual hunger
report, released Wednesday, May 27. The number of
underfed people has declined from 18.6 percent of the
world’s population to 10.9 percent since 1990-92.
Among developing nations, the improvement is even
more dramatic: a drop from 23.3 percent in 1990-92 to
12.9 percent today.
• Presently, 24 African countries are battling
food crisis–twice as many as in 1990-92. SubSaharan Africa now has the highest rates of
undernourishment–one in four people
remain undernourished.
• Southern Asia remains the region with the
most hungry people. As many as 281 million
people are undernourished.
May 1 to October 31, 2015.
A global showcase focusing on:
guaranteeing healthy, safe and
sufficient food for everyone, while
respecting the Planet and its
equilibrium
The Battle for the Word
Food System
Raj Patel, Research Professor in
the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs at the
University of Texas, Austin
and a Senior Research Associate
at the Unit for the Humanities
at Rhodes University (UHURU),
South Africa.
True cost accounting
Nestlé’s AVP for Stakeholder Engagement on
Sustainability explained how the world’s biggest food
company had done its own internal audit of the true
environmental and social costs of its business. The
number was high. So high that releasing it to the
public would result in the company being ‘crucified’.
The costs are bigger than profits and ‘trend towards
revenue’. Last year, the company’s profits were
$15bn, and its revenue was $98 bn.
The number is big.
True cost accounting
KPMG released a report in 2012 looking at how much
environmental harm was ‘externalised’ by industries,
calculating the price of damage done but not
paid for. The food industry had the highest costs $200 billion.
And that’s 224% of their profits.
The consequences are enormous:
“There’s no business
model where the
food industry
produces cheap food
without destroying
the environment.”
Raj Patel
May 2015
For First Time Since WWII
There Are More Than 50
Million Refugees Worldwide
6000 Libyan refugees arriving in Italy in 2
days
Global Initiative to Ensure Women
Artists Gain Traction in Museums
http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/06/19/global-initiative-to-ensure-women-artists-gain-traction-inmuseums/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=18841831&_hsenc=p2ANqtz_8MxcwCCUTJxo1GY5e6mPUEFbdLDzF_7xpDM8GOwbHKoqRcSB2HNbAFuOPpSWoRkH47SFLy6hI1Nn_XisMzjvITnS2w&_hsmi=18841831
Where will we find and how can
we train…
• Evaluators who can connect the dots
across problems globally
• Evaluators who can bring truly
interdisciplinary perspectives to bear
on global issues
• Evaluators who understand complex
dynamic systems interconnections
• Evaluators who think and analyze
world systems
World Systems Analysis
• Emphasis on world-systems rather than nationstates
• On the need to consider historical processes as
they unfold over long periods of time
• On combining within a single analytical framework
bodies of knowledge usually viewed as distinct
from one another—such as history, political
science, economics, and sociology.
• The world-system as a social reality comprised of
interconnected nations, corporations, households,
classes, and identity groups of all kinds.
Global Issues
Students as Global Citizens
June 15, 2015
Daniel Sherman,
President, Explore Co.
As a result of the strategic direction set by the ClimateWorks
(CW) Board and President to create a global, highly collaborative
campaign-based, learning organization, the new Evaluation and
Learning Officer will lead in facilitating and implementing
learning and evaluation activities for CW and its campaign
teams.
This person will serve as a strategic partner to senior staff as
well as program/campaign teams. Moreover, he/she will work
with a network of aligned climate mitigation funders to advance
learning and evaluation efforts….The new Evaluation and
Learning Officer must have the presence, judgment,
communication skills, and personal capabilities to operate as a
peer with intelligence, diverse thinking, and creativity.
Global Systems Evaluation
• New, pioneering IPDET course
• IDEAs session
• BetterEvaluation discussion and
resources
We are the world
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There is a choice we're making
Were saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you
and me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsv9
NJn2j0
Blue Marble
Evaluation Anthem
There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
When evaluation must evolve.
The Blue Marble calls us
To do what must be done
The future of our planet must be won.
We can’t go on
Pretending day by day
That our designs, as now done,
Are adequate.
We must now become
World Savvy rigorously
And the truth be told
Through global data we unfold
Chorus -- Everyone
We are the world’s evaluators
We are the ones who take a
global view– eval-uat-ing.
There’s a need we’re serving,
To use a systems lens
Evaluating complex changes
globally.
There are projects failing
To take a whole world view
To see
Inter-connected-ness
We must now become
World Savvy rigorously
And the truth be told
Through global data we unfold
Chorus -- Everyone
We are the world’s evaluators
We are the ones who take a
global view– eval-uat-ing.
There’s a need we’re serving,
To use a systems lens
Evaluating complex changes
globally.
Where will we get and
how will we train…
• Blue Marble Evaluators
• Global Systems Evaluators
• World Systems Thinkers as
Evaluators
• Evaluators without borders,
boundaries and blinders