Evaluation for planetary health

Brousselle, Astrid; McDavid, J. Bradley

doi:10.1177/1356389020952462

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“…This work confirms existing scientific knowledge showing that investing in redistributive programs creates a protective social security web that positively affects population health during difficult times. Aiming to increase the resilience of the population necessarily involves reinvesting in measures that will reduce social inequalities, which can be done “by investing in public health and healthcare, education, early childhood programs, income security and social protection, improving living conditions such as housing, implementing policies that support building social and human capital, and bettering employment and working conditions” (WHO 2019; Brousselle and McDavid n.d.).…”

Section: More Crises To Come: Managing Risk and Fostering Resilience mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Brousselle¹,

Brunet‐Jailly²,

Kennedy³

et al. 2020

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Several Canadian and international scholars offer commentaries on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for governments and public service institutions, and fruitful directions for public administration research and practice. This second suite of commentaries considers the challenges confronting governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the decades to come with an increasingly broad lens: the need to understand and rethink the architecture of the state given recent and future challenges awaiting governments; the need to rethink government-civil society relations and policies to deliver services for increasingly diverse citizens and communities; the need for new repertoires and sensibilities on the part of governments for recognizing, anticipating, and engaging on governance risks despite imperfect expert knowledge and public skepticism; how the COVID-19 crisis has caused us to reconceive international and sub-national borders where new "borders" are being drawn; and the need to anticipate a steady stream of crises similar to the COVID-19 pandemic arising from climate change and related challenges, and develop new national and international governance strategies for fostering population and community resilience. Sommaire : Plusieurs universitaires canadiens et internationaux ont offert des suggestions sur les implications de la pandémie du COVID-19 pour les gouvernements et les institutions de la fonction publique, ainsi que des orientations futures pour la recherche et la pratique en administration publique. Cette deuxième série de commentaires examine les défis que devront affronter les gouvernements en raison de la pandémie de COVID-19 et dans les décennies à venir, dans une optique large. Cette série souligne le besoin de comprendre et de repenser l'architecture de l'État, de revoir les relations entre le gouvernement et la société civile pour fournir des services à des citoyens et des communautés de plus en plus divers, d'élaborer de nouvelles façons d'identifier et d'anticiper les risques, et de s'engager malgré

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Section: More Crises To Come: Managing Risk and Fostering Resilience mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Brousselle¹,

Brunet‐Jailly²,

Kennedy³

et al. 2020

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“…Otherwise, most articles could be characterised as calls to action. Scholarship is overwhelmingly focused at the global or international level, mostly in respect to international policy frameworks (Brolan et al, 2019; Dasandi et al, 2021; Onabola, 2019) and governance principles (Brousselle & McDavid, 2020; Clark, 2015; Pattanayak & Haines, 2017). Outside academia, advancements have been made in advocacy.…”

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Implementing local planetary health: Case study of Blue Mountains, Australia

Robson

Crabtree-Hayes

Langevad³

et al. 2022

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Planetary health is a concept that emerged from public health and is of central interest for geographers. Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) launched its planetary health initiative in 2020, which is a first instance of it being adopted by an Australian local government as a sustainability policy framework. This article presents an initial case study arguing for and testing how to gain empirical insights from developing local planetary health initiatives. Using an online survey of Blue Mountains residents from 2020, we elucidate key opportunities and challenges associated with implementing planetary health in local contexts. We found that respondents experience the impacts of environmental change in varied ways and want to do more to address environmental change.They demand action from governments and others to act, yet do not understand well the mechanisms available to local governments to undertake such action. We also established that planetary health shows promise in its ability to accommodate diverse and scalar experiences and action from personal to communal. Thus, our key claim is that it could be an inclusive basis upon which local governments and communities can deliberate and make decisions about sustainability. However, local governments could experience difficulties in implementing planetary health should deliberation not improve community understanding of the levers available to local government to act on environmental change and the nature of shared responsibility for place-based sustainability. We suggest geographers could do more work on such matters.

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“…Valuing the environment, social justice and democracy in our evaluation work will make us part of the needed transformation. We must challenge the ways that evaluations are commissioned; how policies and programmes are framed – to take risks, going beyond existing evaluation mandates, to improve equity, health and prosperity; reduce pollution; take care of our air, waters and lands; and protect biodiversity (Brousselle and McDavid, 2020a). As evaluators, we should use our facilitating skills to foster democracy and engagement.…”

Section: Planting Seeds For Changementioning

confidence: 99%

What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners

Berg¹,

Bours²,

Brousselle³

et al. 2022

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Leading evaluation practitioners were asked about lessons from the recent 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) for evaluation practice. Contributors emphasize the importance of evaluating equity between rich and poor countries and other forms of climate injustice. The role of the evaluation is questioned: what can evaluation be expected to do on its own and what requires collaboration across disciplines, professions and civil society – and across generations? Contributors discuss the implications of the post-Glasgow climate ‘pact’ for the continued relevance of evaluation. Should evaluators advocate for the marginalized and become activists on behalf of sustainability and climate justice – as well as advocates of evidence? Accountability-driven and evidence-based evaluation is needed to assess the effectiveness of investments in adaptation and mitigation. Causal pathways in different settings and ‘theories of no-change’ are needed to understand gaps between stakeholder promises and delivery. Evaluators should measure unintended consequences and what is often left unmeasured, and be sensitive to failure and unanticipated effects of funded actions. Evaluation timescales and units of analysis beyond particular programmes are needed to evaluate the complexities of climate change, sustainability and to take account of natural systems. The implications for evaluation commissioning and funding are discussed as well as the role of evaluation in programme-design and implementation.

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Evaluation for planetary health

Cited by 14 publications

References 25 publications

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

Implementing local planetary health: Case study of Blue Mountains, Australia

What should evaluation learn from COP 26? Views of evaluation practitioners

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