Events

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Summit for the Future of Evaluation

The Summit for the Future of Evaluation will be held on 29-30 May 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka as a featured event

Glocal Evaluation Competencies for Learning As We Go – Zooming in and zooming out to connect system-level solutions to local beneficiaries

Identifying essential competencies for evaluators has received significant attention in recent years yet practical examples of how to apply competencies

Evaluator Competencies for Global-Local (GLOCAL) Inquiry in ‘Learning as We Go’

This full-day session will take place at the Canadian Evaluation Society Conference in Quebec City. Register for CES. Session Description: Glocally

Earth Day Evaluation Declaration Launch

Earth Day 2024 offers an opportunity for evaluators worldwide to affirm our collective professional commitment to systematically include environmental, social,

December 2023 Community Gathering

Join us for our final monthly community gathering of 2023! This month we will reflect on the year and plan

Crafting Your Blue Marble Evaluation Story: How to Apply Blue Marble Principles to Your Everyday Evaluation Practice

This Think Tank will provide an overview of the Blue Marble Evaluation perspective, examples of how evaluators have applied the

BME International Women’s Day Webinar

Join us as we recognize International Women’s Day and highlight the connections between BME and feminist evaluation. We will welcome

BME Community Gathering – September 2023

Blue Marble Evaluation community gatherings are a space where we can come together as a network to explore, learn and

BME Community Gathering – May 2023 – Principles for Evaluating Systems Transformation

Join us for our monthly BME community gathering.  This month, we will discuss the revised Principles for Evaluating Transformation from

BME Community Gathering – March 2023 – Glocal Competency for Learning as You Go

Join us for our monthly BME community gathering, where we will be hearing from Keiko Kuji-Shikatani about how she thinks about the

BME Case Example Consultation Webinar 3

One of the requests we hear frequently is to offer more insights into how Blue Marble Evaluation can be applied

BME Case Example Consultation Webinar 1

One of the requests we hear frequently is to offer more insights into how Blue Marble Evaluation can be applied

Blue Marble perspectives on intergenerational evaluation for transformation

As part of Youth in Evaluation Week, this event will bring together perspectives, stories and lessons from our collaboration working on

Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles – Book Launch

Join us for a book signing and reception to celebrate the world premier of Michael Quinn Patton’s new book, Blue

Blue Marble Evaluation Online Workshop Webinar Series

Blue Marble refers to the iconic image of the Earth from space without borders or boundaries, a whole Earth perspective.

Blue Marble Evaluation as Theory of Transformation

This workshop is part of the Canadian Evaluation Society conference in Quebec City. Click here to register. Blue Marble refers to

Blue Marble Evaluation 1-Day Course – The Evaluators’ Institute Summer 2023

This workshop will provide a framework and tools for evaluating global systems transformation.

Blue Marble Evaluation – Birds of a Feather Gathering

Blue Marble Evaluation colleagues who are attending the American Evaluation Association Conference in New Orleans in November 2022 are invited

Blue Marble Community Gathering – November 2023

Join us to discuss what you’d like to see from the Blue Marble community in the coming year. Click here

Blue Marble Community Gathering

Each month, we make space to gather as a community to explore opportunities and challenges to engaging with Blue Marble

AEA Session – Blue Marble Evaluation: transforming evaluation to inform global transformation in the Anthropocene

Summary: Taking a Blue Marble perspective means viewing the world holistically. It begins with watching for and interpreting interconnections in the

AEA Session – Blue Marble Evaluation for Global Systems Transformation

Summary: The Blue Marble is the iconic image of the Earth from space without borders or boundaries, a whole Earth perspective.

AEA Session – Becoming a World Savvy Blue Marble Evaluator

Summary: Blue Marble Evaluation is focused on training the next generation of evaluators to “Think Globally, Act Globally and Evaluate Globally.”