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
Transformation
Transformation is a critical cross-cutting theme, as the future of our species and our planet depends on our ability to transform systems for a more sustainable and equitable future.
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.
Evaluation Facilitation principles meet Blue Marble Evaluation principles: Professional Development to be World Savvy in a Virtual World
Learn how two professional development and capability-building trainers, Glenn Page and Michael Quinn Patton, are adapting to the online environment. Two principles-focused evaluation approaches interconnect as Glenn will focus on how to apply the principles of Blue Marble Evaluation for place-…
Design for Global Transformation
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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…
Transforming the Financial Sector With an Eye to Blue Marble Evaluation
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Presenters: Steve Lydenberg, William Burckart & Mirtha Kastrapeli
Hosted by Glenn Page
This webinar will explore the work of TIIP and their vision for engaging Blue Marble Evaluators to help transform the financial…
Bioregioning: Ancient wisdom that has come of age
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Presenters: Isabel Carlisle & Eduard Mueller
Hosted by Glenn Page & Michael Quinn Patton
Future resilience of our communities across the globe is a whole-systems challenge in the face of whole systems change (climate change being one of…
Transforming Small Scale Fisheries with a Blue Marble Lens: the Case of West Africa
Presenters: Kofi Agbogah and Alasdair Harris
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Hosted by Glenn Page and Michael Quinn Patton.
This webinar dives into the case study presented here, with a focus on the Blue Marble Integration principle.
Small scale, wild capture fisheries…
The role of institutions for transformation in the global South
Presenter: Fred Cardin of Using Evidence
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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…
Special Blue Marble Book Club Webinar - Transformation: What It Means, Why It Matters
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The Blue Marble Evaluation book club sponsored a special webinar on Chapter 3 of the book, which focuses on the Transformation Engagement Principle. In this webinar, distinguished philosopher Elizabeth Minnich joined Michael Quinn…
Evaluation Criteria for Transformation: A Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective
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…
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…
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