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Imagination may be the key to unlocking a better future
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The “better future” is supposedly already here We are ostensibly living in an era with less poverty, better health and life expectancy and more access to human rights and education than ever. The progress in the last 200 years is undeniable and the extensive data by the likes of Max Roses (Our World in Data),…
An education movement, it is now time!
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Education, the results rarely mirror the ambition Education accounts for about a fifth of our total budget expenditure in South Africa but it really is a case of high input, low output. Despite the large annual education spend, education outcomes in South Africa fall behind even our continental peers. By way of example, when you…
Bricolage, not mixed methods. Bricolage Gives Me Permission – and a Responsibility
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I recently attended a conference on Bricolage in evaluation, organised by the Outcome Mapping Learning Community. Before I explain what I mean by bricolage, I want to trace something about my own development as an evaluator because I think it mirrors the journey of many African evaluators of my cohort. We learned by doing. When I started out 25…
More of the same or an opportunity to reset?
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New year, fresh take? The notion of a New Year has roots in many ancient cultures and rituals. In the Abrahamic traditions, it often aligns with the spring equinox where seeds were planted, it has now come to symbolise renewal and fresh starts. At Southern Hemisphere we like to think of it in those terms,…
Facing Down the Polycrisis: The Necessity of a Connected Response
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The World Economic Forum (WEF), specifically the Global Risks Report 2023 defines a polycrisis as: “A cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part.” Perhaps never in history has there been as much talk about a global polycrisis: the urgency of the climate change…
A quarter of a century behind us and we are just getting started
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Together with SAMEA (the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association), we recently gathered to celebrate two milestone anniversaries, ours of 25 years at Southern Hemisphere, and theirs at 20 years. It was fitting that this was a joint celebration as Southern Hemisphere and SAMEA have a shared history, a shared vision to build capacity and…
