Principle 3: Transformative Engagement

Engage and evaluate consistent with the magnitude, direction, and speed of transformations needed and envisioned.

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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

The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

This webinar will explore what strong institutions would mean based on a study of African research institutions. The webinar will explore the decolonisation of research as a proxy for decolonising development more broadly in addressing the challenges we face collectively.

Blog post

Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Group

Visualization of transformation system pathways are a focus of Blue Marble Evaluation. Learn more about the development of a working group focused on building this field.

Webinar

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

This webinar highlights, with examples, three major issues related to North-South and South-South dynamics, and consider what these mean for the mindsets and competencies with which we commission and do evaluation.

Blog post

Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

The McKnight Foundation has supported the first of the Blue Marble Evaluation innovators — from Michael Quinn Patton and the World Savvy team, to the evaluators embedded in the Global Alliance for the Future of Food and the Collaborative Crop Research Program. This initial Blue Marble Cohort has learned from each other, challenged each other, and is actively providing critical tools and frameworks for the field. Writing on the day of the launch of Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles in Minneapolis, Jane Maland Cady, Program Director, International – McKnight Foundation, explains that the work has only begun and why it’s important to use this approach to evaluation to address the critical challenges facing our one and only planet.

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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

Resource

Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems

This report presents the key highlights and contributions from the conference ‘Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems’. This conference was held on 3-4 April 2019 in Wageningen, the Netherlands and was the twelfth annual ‘M&E on the Cutting Edge’ conference. This event was organised by Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI) in collaboration with Wageningen Economic Research and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform.

Author

Cecile Kusters, Hermine ten Hove, Diane Bosch, Marion Herens and Seerp Wigboldus

Year

2019

Webinar

Blue Marble Evaluation Book Launch Webinar

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.

Event

AEA Session - Blue Marble Evaluation for Global Systems Transformation

Nov 15, 2019 @ 2:15 PM CST

Resource

12-Point Checklist for Blue Marble Design, Implementation and Evaluation

Evaluation is no longer just a back-end activity assessing whether goals have been attained. By integrating design, engagement, and evaluation, a Blue Marble evaluation team can support accomplishing a range of tasks in developing both local and global systems change initiatives. This resource provides a checklist of Blue Marble contributions that can be used as both a reminder of possibilities for evaluators and a menu of options for those designing and implementing systems change initiatives.

Author

Michael Quinn Patton

Year

2019

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Principle 3: Transformative Engagement

Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises & Principles

The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Group

An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks

Blue Marble Evaluation: Thinking in Transformational Ways at a Time When We Urgently Need To

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

Conference Report: Monitoring and Evaluation for Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems

Blue Marble Evaluation Book Launch Webinar

AEA Session - Blue Marble Evaluation for Global Systems Transformation

12-Point Checklist for Blue Marble Design, Implementation and Evaluation