BME Book Club – Chapter 7 Discussion – Crossing Silos for Environmental Justice

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Join us for this special edition of our Blue Marble Evaluation Book Club. This month, we will look at the Cross-Silos principle, presented in Chapter 7 of the book, Blue Marble Evaluation: Premises and Principles. In particular, we will explore the intersection between the movements for social justice and environmental sustainability with a look at environmental justice. We […]

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Systems Transformation Mapping & Analysis WorkGroup is Launching

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The cross network Working Group focused on building the field of Transformations Systems Mapping & Analysis – has launched with over 80 members representing 22 countries has launched with great enthusiasm. There are 13 different “workstreams” that cover a wide range of thematic areas. Each workstream has a “Convener” and “Fellow” so keep an eye

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Transforming Small Scale Fisheries with a Blue Marble Lens: the Case of West Africa

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Small scale, wild capture fisheries provide employment, food, and livelihoods for tens of millions of people globally.  Listen as we introduce Kofi Agbogah Executive Director of of Hen Mopano in Ghana and Dr. Alasdair Harris Executive Director of Blue Ventures as they discuss truly innovative and integrative programs.

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Evaluation Implications of the Coronavirus Global Health Pandemic Emergency

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I’ve been doing evaluations and writing about the evaluation profession for nearly 50 years. For the last decade, I’ve been writing about evaluation under conditions of complexity (Developmental Evaluation) and global systems transformations (Blue Marble Evaluation). I’ve been getting queries from colleagues young and old, novice evaluators and long-time practitioners, asking how I’m making sense

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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 happen without individual inner transformation. But what does that mean? And how do we chart our own individual transformation journeys? Hint: It starts with seeing

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Book Review: Blue Marble Premises and Principles

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By Robert Picciotto, University of Auckland, New Zealand American Journal of Evaluation, 2020 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

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by Zooming Out and Zooming In

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With lockdowns and stay home orders spanning the globe to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, we’ve all been spending an awful lot of time on Zoom these days. I know I have. Even my 2 and 6 year olds have. And now the language of “zoomed out” has become commonplace. I think we are all feeling

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APEA Webinar Follow-up: Further Implications of the Global Health Emergency for Evaluation

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On April 21, 2020, the Asia Pacific Evaluation Association hosted a webinar where they asked Michael Quinn Patton to explore the implications of the novel coronavirus for evaluation. The recording of the webinar can be found here. The webinar generated lively discussion among participants. Below are some of the questions and comments shared in the chat during the

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The role of institutions for transformation in the global South

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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 collectively address global challenges, strong national partners are essential. A continuing failure to address this gap in many parts of the world will

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Transformation Systems Mapping & Analysis Group

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One of the best methods for understanding transformations systems is the process of mapping them. There are a wide range of methods but there have been few attempts to document all current mapping methods and to understand when to use one type of mapping methods vs. another and more importantly to determine how to integrate

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