As a transdisciplinary profession, evaluation has much to offer to global change interventions that work toward a sustainable future across national boundaries, sectors, and issues. This book introduces Blue Marble evaluation, which provides a framework for developing, adapting, and evaluating major systems change initiatives involving complex networks of stakeholders. Michael Quinn Patton demonstrates how the four overarching principles and 12 operating principles of this innovative approach allow evaluators, planners, and implementers to home in on sustainability and equity issues in an intervention. Compelling case examples, bulleted review lists, charts, and 80 original exhibits and graphics connect the global and local, the human and ecological. Rooted in utilization-focused, developmental, and principles-focused evaluation, Blue Marble evaluation is designed to tackle problems outside the reach of traditional evaluation practice.
Book
Year
2019
Publisher
Guilford Publishing
Author
Michael Quinn Patton
Principle 1: Global Thinking,
Principle 2: Anthropocene as Context,
Principle 3: Transformative Engagement,
Principle 4: Integration,
Principle 5: Transboundary Engagement,
Principle 6: GLOCAL,
Principle 7: Cross-silos,
Principle 8: Time being of the essence,
Principle 9. Yin-Yang,
Principle 10: Bricolage Methods,
Principle 11: World Savvy,
Principle 12: Skin-in-the-Game,
Principle 13: Theory of Transformation,
Principle 14: Transformation Fidelity,
Principle 15: Transformational Alignment,
Principle 16: Evaluation as Intervention