Join us to hear from Michael Quinn Patton, founder of Blue Marble Evaluation and author of the newly released book of the same name. He will walk through the structure of the book and dig into some of its content. We will also offer a guided tour of the new Blue Marble Evaluation website. Click […]
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This webinar is now complete. You can view the recording here. Greg Watson is the Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and an initiative to improve global systems literacy. Greg has spent over 40 years learning to understand systems thinking as inspired
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Join us for this special edition of our Blue Marble Evaluation Book Club. This month, we will look at the Cross-Silos principle, presented in Chapter 7 of the book, Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles. In particular, we will explore the intersection between the movements for social justice and environmental sustainability with a look at environmental justice. We
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Small scale, wild capture fisheries provide employment, food, and livelihoods for tens of millions of people globally.  Listen as we introduce Kofi Agbogah Executive Director of of Hen Mopano in Ghana and Dr. Alasdair Harris Executive Director of Blue Ventures as they discuss truly innovative and integrative programs.
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In this webinar, Nora Murphy Johnson applies the Blue Marble Perspective to our personal development as blue marble evaluators. Because people and systems are interrelated and interdependent, global systems transformation will not happen without individual inner transformation. But what does that mean? And how do we chart our own individual transformation journeys? Hint: It starts with seeing
Summary: To quote a researcher from a recent study of institutions in Africa, “How is Africa ever going to develop if it doesn’t have its own set of very strong institutions?” If we are going to collectively address global challenges, strong national partners are essential. A continuing failure to address this gap in many parts of the world will
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Climate change and the global emergency changes everything. The global mandate heard everywhere now is TRANSFORMATION. Business-as-usual criteria (like the revised DAC Network on Development Evaluation evaluation criteria) are not adequate for evaluating transformation. Based on Blue Marble Evaluation premises and principles, this webinar will introduce and discuss six criteria for evaluating transformation. The purpose is not
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