The resources below have been compiled for evaluators and others interested in developing a Blue Marble perspective. They provide important knowledge and context for global systems transformation design, implementation and evaluation. The resources are tagged with Blue Marble Evaluation principles and key themes.
Featured themes
Sustainability
Sustainability is a critical cross-cutting theme, as the future of our species and our planet depends on our ability to manage resources sustainably.
Systems thinking
The Blue Marble perspective requires that global initiatives take a systemic approach to their work, identifying the boundaries, perspectives and interconnections operating within the system.
Identifying and living into your Personal Principles - What it truly means to have skin in the game
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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…
An elusive BME ideal: Harmonizing South/North interests, worldviews and frameworks
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Description: World-savvy, glocally-orientated evaluators have to be adept at working across all sorts of silos and boundaries. Over the past 3-4 decades, North-South cooperation in the ‘aid’ or philanthropy sectors has been an…
Transforming Food Systems with Beacons of Hope
Summary: Around the world, an extensive network of people and initiatives are transforming food systems. Beacons of Hope: Accelerating Food Systems Transformation is a project by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food that aims to amplify the power and potential of transforming food systems to…
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.
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48 Years of Alaska's Glaciers
This time-lapse video clearly exemplifies the importance of deeply analyzing and understanding patterns over time in order to identify and assess transformations.
Using images from the NASA-USGS Landsat program dating back to 1972 and continuing through 2019, glaciologist Mark Fahnestock of the…
Climate Emergency, Urban Opportunity: How national governments can secure economic prosperity and avert climate catastrophe by transforming cities
This report is underpinned by a three-year research effort by a coalition of 50 of the world’s foremost research institutes, networks of national and city governments, investors, infrastructure providers, strategic advisory companies, non-governmental organisations and social movements.
Together,…
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…
Better Evaluation
As noted in the Bricolage Methods Principle, Blue Marble Evaluation is NOT a specific set of methods or measurements, though treating the global system as the focus of evaluation has major methodological and measurement implications.
The variety of possible Blue marble evaluation situations is so…
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