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Integrate the Blue Marble principles in design, engagement with, and evaluation of systems change and transformation initiatives.

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Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders.
Author
Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2019

Webinar

Learning as you go: Becoming part of the solution as a Blue Marble Evaluator navigating the pandemic

What are we learning in this pandemic? We are seeing that individuals matter: individual actions have reverberating consequences. We are also seeing that systems matter: how systems act to address the pandemic and protect peoples have dire consequences for the individuals that live in society and for the rest of us around the blue marble.

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Igniting and Sustaining Community-led Transformation: Tostan's Proven Approach

This webinar is now complete. Please click here to access a recording. Ms. Bonometti has also written a follow-up blog post answering some of the questions posed during this webinar. Click here to read that post.

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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. We humans are using our planet’s resources, and polluting and warming it, in ways that are unsustainable. Many people, organizations, and networks are working to ensure the future is more sustainable and equitable. Blue Marble evaluators enter the fray by helping design such efforts, provide ongoing feedback for adaptation and enhanced impact, and examine the long-term effectiveness of such interventions and initiatives.

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Transforming Small Scale Fisheries with a Blue Marble Lens: the Case of West Africa

This webinar explores the integration principle of Blue Marble Evaluatino, with a case study on sustainable fisheries.

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Book Review: Blue Marble Premises and Principles

Summary: Michael Quinn Patton’s Blue Marble Evaluation is a forward-looking, path-breaking, and timely contribution to evaluation theory and practice. The title of the book evokes the Blue Marble shot—a photograph of the whole earth taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972. The preface of the book displays the first image of our lonely planet captured from space in 1968 (Earthrise).

Author
Robert Picciotto, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Year
2020

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Blue Marble Evaluation Book Club Discussion - Chapter 4

If you missed the conversation with Michael and other BME members about chapter 4, never fear! We have recorded it here, with some highlights below! What questions do you have? Feel free to post as a comment and keep the conversation going! 

Year
2020

Event

Blue Marble Book Club - Chapter 4 Discussion

This members-only event is a chance to connect with other members and discuss the 4th Chapter in Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles - Integration Principle. 

To view the event details, visit the Blue Marble Book Club Discussion Forum. 

 

Blog post

Aftermath of the 50th Anniversary of the Blue Marble (Earth) Day

Despite not being able to be held in person, the swell of online activity around International Mother Earth Day this year, the movement’s 50th anniversary, demonstrates just how much we are connected to one another – no matter where on earth we are. Now, more than ever, this landmark event calls on us to think and act systemically on the (many, many) challenges and opportunities in front of us when it comes to climate action. We either get through this together and systemically, or we won’t.

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Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity: How national governments can secure economic prosperity and avert climate catastrophe by transforming cities

A flagship global report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions.
Year
2019

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