Global Change Center

📣 CENTERING EQUITY, DIGNITY AND ETHICS IN RESEARCH EVALUATION Global Change Center is pleased to join this panel with the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices and UNICEF Innocenti to present our South-to-to South action-research deconstructing what it takes to assess unfair power dynamics and structural barriers that do not allow to center equity, justice and ethics in research for the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives. We will showcase our efforts as a clear example that change is possible when organizations commit to align research principles and approaches with the clear the principles of inclusion, dignity and human rights. United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) will present its Ethical Pledge and results from applying the "leave no one behind" framework in all UN evaluations.Cecilia Milesi Global Change Center will present our Southern-led research on equity-centered evaluation and our partner Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices will exemplify what all this means when working with anti-racist and anti-caste lenses in complex contexts and in allyship with the most oppressed and marginalized communities affected by COVID 19 and natural disasters. Moderated by UNICEF Innocenti (global UNICEF evaluation office). 🔑 Join us by registering here: https://lnkd.in/dJPQdSYq

📢 Glocal Evaluation Week powered by Global Evaluation Initiative The World Bank Very proud that next week we will be co-leading two sessions to present our Southern-led research on equity oriented evaluation! Here is one option. Don't miss it! ➡ Learn more how we bring together eight Global South organizations to deconstruct unfair power dynamics in the evaluation ecosystem and proposed tangible pathways to affect transformative change: https://lnkd.in/eRf9CJ2H ⏬ Download the report: https://lnkd.in/gw6nbvUY Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Institute for Global Dialogue GENSA (Gender and Equity Network South Asia) Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices Fundación SES - Solidaridad, Educación y Sustentabilidad FLACSO Sede Argentina (Sitio Oficial) Women for a Change, Cameroon North-South Initiative #ViralizingSolidarity Ford Foundation

📢 GLOCAL EVALUATION WEEK We are very happy to announce that we have been invited to present our insights on transforming inequitable evaluation and research policies and practices during 2024 GLOCAL EVALUATION WEEK organized by the Global Evaluation Initiative hosted by the The World Bank Our panel will include UNDP UNICEF and Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices The gLOCAL Evaluation Week is a unique knowledge-sharing event, connecting a global community of people across sectors and regions. Over the course of a week, participants from all over the world join events focusing on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) ecosystems and the larger international M&E community, gLOCAL helps to inspire and energize a global movement - individuals and organizations who value the power of evidence to improve people’s lives. https://lnkd.in/dJPQdSYq Please join us! Ford Foundation Kelsey Simmons Pradeep Narayanan Tarini Shipurkar Tina Tordjman-Nebe Ramya Subrahmanian Subarna N. Mathes Bess Rothenberg Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices International Development Research Centre (IDRC) UNDP United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) GENSA (Gender and Equity Network South Asia)

📢 RECORDING LAUNCH WEBMINAR: EQUITY-CENTERED EVALUATION - THE URGENT NEED TO TRANSFORM UNFAIR POWER DYNAMICS We are pleased to share the recording of the webinar to launch our Southern-led research report "Equity-centered evaluation of international cooperation efforts: the urgent need to shift unfair power dynamics". The research was commissioned by Ford Foundation, coordinated by Global Change Center and the Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices and co-created with a powerful collective of Global South partners from #Latinanomerica, #Asia and #Africa (more info below). During the webinar, we presented the key findings emerging from our South-South research. We argued that evaluation has become a tool of exclusion and control rather than a process supporting transformative change. As we deconstructed this systemic problem, we offered "journeys of change" as pathways to promote evaluation as one enabler of emancipation. Towards the end of the webinar, we opened the space for a rich debate and reflection. Please, don’t miss it! This webinar is another step in our work as a South-South collective efforts to support critical options for change within the international cooperation ecosystem dominated by old-fashioned mainstream ideas. We believe that Global South actors – as historic victims of unilateral and extractive evaluation policies and practices – must facilitate a global learning process to enhance the integration of equity into planning, evaluation and learning practices. The webinar's speakers and discussants were: 💡 Cecilia Milesi, Global Change Center's Founder 💡 Pradeep Narayanan, Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices' Director of Researcher 💡Kelsey Simmons, Ford Foundation Evaluation and Learning Officer 💡 Anna Kunová, Coordinator of UNDP Reflection series and Lesson Section of UNDP's Independent Evaluation Office, representing Ana Rosa Soares, Chief Evaluation Synthesis and Lessons of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As discussants, they valued our research findings and insights considering UNDP's "Leave No One Behind Evaluation Framework" being piloted globally We were also joined by all our Global South partners: Ashraf Patel, the Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa; Sonal Zaveri, GENSA (Gender & Equity Network South Asia); Adrian Pereira and Manishankar Prasad, @North-South Initiative #ViralizingSolidarity, Malaysia; and María Belén Herrero and Juliana Peixoto Batista Peixoto, the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO Sede Argentina (Sitio Oficial) This is a good change to also launch Global Change Center's YouTube Channel. Please subscribe as we upload South-South dialogues bringing together leaders from Latin America, Asia and Africa. Do subscribe to receive more information. https://lnkd.in/epXZMHfz Bond UK Oxfam International Development Research Centre (IDRC) INTRAC King's College London

🌏 FORD FOUNDATION PUBLISHES OUR RESEARCH REPORT #EQUITY 📢 We are happy to share that you can all download the executive summary report of our Southern-led research "Equity-Centered evaluation in international Cooperation: the urgent need to change unfair power dynamics". Today we are holding the first global online webinar to launch the report and share knowledge and insights together with all our Global South partners, Ford Foundation and UNDP's team, all committed to collaborate to jointly tackle the systemic barriers keeping Global South evaluators, principles, methods and voice silenced, marginalized and oppressed by donors still funding business and usual- an old-fashioned and neocolonial evaluation and research industry. Here is the Zoom link. See you there or register below to receive more information and the recording in the next few days: 📣 Today Join Zoom Meeting - 10 AM New York, 2 PM UK, 11 AM Argentina, 7.30 PM India | 4 PM South AFrica Link: https://lnkd.in/d7uC3Fns  Meeting ID: 811 7064 8574 🎼 Register to receive more information and the recording: https://lnkd.in/e9wY3uaZ 🌐 Please check Ford Foundation website and access the summary report: https://lnkd.in/d2G9ekU4 #decolonization #evaluation #equity #internationalcooperation #globalsouth #southsouth #justice #dignity #shiftthepower Pradeep Narayanan Tarini Shipurkar Ashraf Patel Philani Mthembu Manishankar Prasad Adrian Pereira Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, Ph.D Sonal Zaveri María Belén Herrero Juliana Peixoto Batista UNDP Ford Foundation Institute for Global Dialogue Women for a Change, Cameroon GENSA (Gender and Equity Network South Asia) Fundación SES - Solidaridad, Educación y Sustentabilidad Global Change Center FLACSO Sede Argentina (Sitio Oficial) FLACSO Secretaría General Maia King Rose Pinnington, PhD Ana Rosa Soares Kecia Bertermann Luminate Mama Cash Laudes Foundation International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Julia Bailey, PhD Kelsey Simmons Subarna N. Mathes Bess Rothenberg

🌐 EQUITY-CENTERED RESEARCH & EVALUATION We are happy to share inform you that for our research report webminar launch next week, we will be joined by Ana Rosa Soares, Chief Evaluation Synthesis and Lessons of the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As discussant, Ana Rosa will value our research report's insights considering UNDP's "Leave No One Behind Evaluation Framework" being piloted globally. ⭐️ Please register and join the journey to transform how evaluation of international cooperation initiatives is done: https://lnkd.in/e9wY3uaZ #decolonization #equity #evaluation #justice #transformation #timeisup #leavenoonebehind Ford Foundation GENSA (Gender and Equity Network South Asia) Pradeep Narayanan Tarini Shipurkar Sowmyaa Bharadwaj Erika Lopez Franco Ashraf Patel Adrian Pereira Mama Cash Luminate Kecia Bertermann Philani Mthembu Sonal Zaveri Fundación SES - Solidaridad, Educación y Sustentabilidad Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales María Belén Herrero Juliana Peixoto Batista North-South Initiative #ViralizingSolidarity Institute for Global Dialogue Kelsey Simmons Subarna N. Mathes Bess Rothenberg Victoria Dunning

🌄 NEW HORIZONS: the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives requieres a serious push for transformation 🗺 If you want to understand why change is necessary 🌏 If you want to deeply comprehend the systemic and organizational barriers to be overcomed 🌐 If you want to join a emerging Southern-led community of practice of thinkers and doers ready to challenge impositive, extractive and exploitative evaluation and research policies and practices. 🧭 Join us in our global launch, 26th March, in conmemoration of the victims of slavery and transatlantic slavey trade! Fill the form 🌈 https://lnkd.in/eNiE-5De

🌊 Invitation Global Webinar: Equity-centered evaluation. The urgent need to transform unfair power dynamics in the international cooperation ecosystem. In commemoration of the Victims of Slavery and the victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Global Change Center and the Praxis Institute for Participatory Practice invite you to the Global Webinar to reflect on the findings and conclusions of our South-to-South research on equity and the evaluation of international cooperation initiatives. Together with our partners from Latin America, Asia and Africa: the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), South Africa; Women for a Change (WFaC), Cameroon; Gender and Equity Network of South Asia (GENSA); North-South Initiative (NSI), Malaysia; the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina; and Fundación SES, Latam we will also present existing and emerging journeys of change harvested after interviewing more than 100 donors, organizations, governments and multilateral officials positioned all around the world. This is another step in our work as a South-South collective focusing on deconstructing unjust and unfair power dynamics in evaluation and offer critical options for change. We believe that Global South actors – as historic victims of unilateral and extractive evaluation policies and practices – must facilitate a global learning process that shows how equity can be integrated into evaluation practices. Onwards. 💻 REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/e9PmWRhY 📲 After you register, we will soon send the Zoom link to join the meeting. ❗ For more information and to download the full research report, please, visit the Global Change Center website: https://lnkd.in/gw6nbvUY Karina Cáceres Manishankar Prasad Pradeep Narayanan Tarini Shipurkar Tom Thomas Sonal Zaveri GENSA (Gender and Equity Network South Asia) Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, Ph.D Women for a Change, Cameroon North-South Initiative #ViralizingSolidarity Adrian Pereira Philani Mthembu Ashraf Patel Institute for Global Dialogue FLACSO Sede Argentina (Sitio Oficial) Ford Foundation Subarna N. Mathes Kelsey Simmons Bess Rothenberg Fundación SES - Solidaridad, Educación y Sustentabilidad Participatory Grantmaking Community of Practice UNDP Luminate Kecia Bertermann

🎂 🎊 Today Global Change Center turns 3 years old! From the confined times of the pandemic… insightful times to connect decades of abundant beautiful stories, inspiring peoples from all around the world and a handful of Southern disruptive ideas… ✨️ 🌎🌍 To today’s journeys to center equity, Southern voices and justice in every big and small action we facilitate with partners, co-creators and curators from South to South. 🌸 It’s in the cracks of this broken system where we find and celebrate beauty and dignity. From everywhere. With you. 🌻 Thanks for being there. Cecilia Milesi 🌻 www.globalchange.center Pradeep Narayanan Erika Guevara Rosas Tarini Shipurkar Sowmyaa Bharadwaj Zoneziwoh Mbondgulo-Wondieh, Ph.D Ashraf Patel Subarna N. Mathes Philani Mthembu Kelsey Simmons Bess Rothenberg Luana Greco Julieta Blanco Fundación SES - Solidaridad, Educación y Sustentabilidad María Belén Herrero FLACSO Sede Argentina (Sitio Oficial) Sonal Zaveri Adrian Pereira Manishankar Prasad Women for a Change, Cameroon Ayan Mahamoud MBE North-South Initiative #ViralizingSolidarity Amb. Prof Iqbal Jhazbhay Ana Soini Ana Caistor Arendar Global Change Center Maggie Carroll Dr. Anja Stuckert Subir al Sur Asia Global Institute