Introducing the Inclusive Systemic Evaluation approach and the Gender Equality, Environments, and Voices from the Margins Framework (#ISE4GEMs)

Ellen Lewis and Anne Stephens present the ISE4GEMs Guidance, including activities and tools for systemic thinking about multiple issues and complex problems. ISE4GEMS is an original piece of work that brings together trans-disciplinary evaluation methods through a systemic evaluation approach. The Guidance encourages evaluation planning and method selection to co-account for environmental and social change and their fuzzy boundaries, with a particular focus on:

• Environment - ecological systems from pristine to human-made
• Gender - men, women, transgender and multiple identities
• Marginalised voices - those who might not normally be heard.

Promoting sustainable development is a huge challenge for local communities, governments, non government organisations (NGOs) and business organisations as the policies and practices designed to bring about positive change often end up having unwanted side effects due to interactions across multiple economic, social and environmental issues.

Systems thinking has been developed to improve the thinking of individual decision makers by helping them better understand the complexities they are facing, so they can take account of multiple needs, perspectives and desires. It can also improve the quality of dialogue between organisations, and between those organisations and their communities, when they seek to innovate collaboratively to meet multiple needs.

Tuesday 8th May 2018 | 5:30 - 6:45 pm | James Cook University City Campus | 36 Shields Street (between Grafton and Lake Sts) Cairns | Room CCC-109 

Please RSVP to Jill Thomas
Presented in partnership with the Cairns Evaluation and Social Research Network

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