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    <description>Perspectives on evidence, responsibility and accountable decisions from Terra Vita Global B.V.</description>
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      <title>A metric should not travel alone.</title>
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      <description>Keep a metric passport connected to its sources, calculation, limits and review status—and trace what needs reconsideration when an input changes.</description>
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      <title>Human review must be more than an approval button.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/human-review-more-than-an-approval-button.html</link>
      <description>Make human review meaningful: inspect the evidence, challenge the recommendation, preserve disagreement and control what happens next.</description>
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      <title>The middle of the chain deserves its own governance.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/middle-of-the-chain-systems-break.html</link>
      <description>Follow an evidence handoff from receipt to purpose-specific review, with a named response owner, clear use limits and a route for corrections.</description>
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      <title>The moment a system breaks may not be the moment it began to fail.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/moment-system-breaks.html</link>
      <description>Give early concerns a route to an accountable response, preserve uncertainty, and test whether correction restores the service—not only the dashboard.</description>
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      <category>Signal</category>
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      <title>A signed agreement is the beginning of governance—not the end.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/signed-agreement-beginning-of-governance.html</link>
      <description>Connect contractual responsibilities to evidence, human review and authorised decisions—without treating a signature as implementation readiness.</description>
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      <title>The most important line in an adaptation proposal may be who pays to keep it working.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/who-pays-to-keep-it-working.html</link>
      <description>An operating-plan lens for reviewing responsibility, maintenance, recurring costs, service performance and corrective action after installation.</description>
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      <title>Are we ready for governed climate execution?</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/are-we-ready-for-governed-climate-execution.html</link>
      <description>Test the connection between mandate, field activity, evidence and human review—alongside finance and operational capacity.</description>
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      <title>Why the missing layers matter—and why they are different.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/why-multiple-missing-layers-matter.html</link>
      <description>Evidence, attribution, readiness, review and institutional reliance answer different questions. Connecting them must not collapse decision authority.</description>
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      <category>Assurance</category>
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      <title>The moment the system finally moves.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/moment-system-finally-moves.html</link>
      <description>Clearer authority, more coherent evidence and resolved dependencies can indicate that the next step is becoming feasible.</description>
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      <category>Signal</category>
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      <title>When the investment narrative no longer matches the evidence.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/moment-investor-realises-too-late.html</link>
      <description>An institutional-review lens on the gap between a progress narrative and the evidence supporting a specific decision.</description>
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      <title>When community systems and donor timeframes do not align.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/community-systems-donor-timeframes.html</link>
      <description>Make dependencies, recurring responsibilities and unresolved conditions visible where programme timeframes differ.</description>
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      <title>Strategy needs a structure that can carry it.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/institutions-fail-at-structure.html</link>
      <description>Examine how a stated objective connects to responsibilities, evidence, review and authorised action.</description>
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      <title>Readiness is a structural condition, not a feeling.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/readiness-is-structural-condition.html</link>
      <description>Assess readiness for a defined next step through authority, evidence, capacity, timing and unresolved conditions.</description>
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      <category>Signal</category>
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      <title>The value chain of evidence and decisions.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/value-chain-no-one-talks-about.html</link>
      <description>Map who produces information, defines its use, reviews its limitations and can correct the record.</description>
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      <category>Signal</category>
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      <title>Evidence needs a decision path.</title>
      <link>https://blog.terravita-global.com/posts/evidence-without-decision-path.html</link>
      <description>Connect a useful evidence record to a defined question, a reviewer and the institution authorised to decide.</description>
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      <title>Evidence needs attribution to support reliance.</title>
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      <description>Explain who created a record, what it relates to and what remains uncertain before relying on the claim it supports.</description>
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      <title>Acceptance is patience whose waiting has come to rest.</title>
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      <description>A reflection on distinguishing activity, readiness and the discipline of recognising unresolved conditions.</description>
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