IPDET  lighted the Evaluation Torch to celebrate the International year of Evaluation -- the 37th time the torch was lighted this year

EvalPartnersThe international movement to strengthen national evaluation capacities

Five ways to celebrate 2015 - the International Year of Evaluation!

““We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”

12

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 ShotBut 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

Compare images

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

““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 sustainabledevelopment 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-sustainable-development?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 Challengesfor

Blue Marble Evaluators

June 4: Study reported in Science finds no pause in Global Warming

More comprehensive temperature measurements suggest previous results were inaccurateThe 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 SuperVirusFear 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 25-Year Low

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150527-hunger-fao-report-undernourished-hungry/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20150527news-hunger&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. Sub-Saharan 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

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.

The Battle for the Word Food System

True cost accountingNestlé’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 accountingKPMG released a report in 2012 looking at how much environmental harm was ‘externalised’ by industries, calculating the price of damage done but notpaid for. The food industry had the highest costs - $200 billion. And that’s 224% of their profits.

The consequences are enormous:

Raj PatelMay 2015

“There’s no business model where the food industry produces cheap foodwithout destroying the environment.”

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-in-museums/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=18841831&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_8MxcwCCUTJxo1GY5e6mPUEFbdLDzF_7xpDM8GOwbHKoqRcSB2HNbAFuOPp-SWoRkH47SFLy6hI1Nn_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 nation-states • 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, 2015Daniel 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 worldWe are the worldWe are the childrenWe are the ones who make a brighter daySo let's start givingThere is a choice we're makingWere saving our own livesIt's true we'll make a better day, just you and mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsv9NJn2j0

Blue Marble Evaluation Anthem

There comes a timeWhen we heed a certain callWhen evaluation must evolve.The Blue Marble calls usTo do what must be doneThe 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 becomeWorld Savvy rigorouslyAnd the truth be toldThrough global data we unfold

Chorus -- Everyone

We are the world’s evaluatorsWe are the ones who take a global view– eval-uat-ing.There’s a need we’re serving,To use a systems lensEvaluating complex changes globally.

There are projects failingTo take a whole world viewTo seeInter-connected-ness

We must now becomeWorld Savvy rigorouslyAnd the truth be toldThrough global data we unfold

Chorus -- Everyone

We are the world’s evaluatorsWe are the ones who take a global view– eval-uat-ing.There’s a need we’re serving,To use a systems lensEvaluating 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