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.
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…
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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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…
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