Plenary Governance & Education:

The Transformation Evaluation

Imperative

Michael Quinn Patton

September 8, 2020

INFODEMIC

Coronavirus

lessons for

the global

climate

emergency

Blueprint 5: The

Transformation Journey

A Step-By-Step Approach to

Organizational

Thriveability and System Value

Creation

Evaluation

Criteria

for

Transformation

December, 1972

Last Apollo

mission:

Blue Marble shot

Evaluation grew up in the “projects”

Evaluation grew up in the

projects

Evaluation

What we’ve nailed Evaluating…

• Projects & Programmes

• Goal attainment

• Implementation

• Outcomes

• Logic models

Generating...

• Findings

• Lessons

• Recommendations

Nontraditional &

New Directions:

Evaluating… • Mission fulfillment

• Strategy

• Advocacy campaigns

• Policy change

• Systems Change

• Complex dynamic

interventions

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Innovations & Challenges: Evaluating…

• Community impacts

• Regional initiatives

• Inclusiveness and diversity

• Innovation

• Collective impact

• Scaling

• Environmental ecosystem sustainability

• Global systems change

• TRANSFORMATION

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Evaluating

Transformation

means

Transforming

Evaluation

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POLITICAL

SCIENTIFIC

Evaluative

Thinking

Infusing Blue Marble

Evaluative Thinking into

Governance & Education

Carol H. Weiss

Theory of Change:

“Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory”

1995 Aspen Institute

Nov. 7, 1926 -

Jan. 8, 2013

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Paradigm Shifts

From project thinking to

systems transformation

thinking

From theory of change to

Theory of Transformation

THE HAGE

THEORY OF

TRANSFORMATION

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The Hage Theory of Transformation

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Post-

Normal Evaluation

Thomas

Schwandt

Peter Drucker

“The greatest danger in times

of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is

to act with yesterday’s logic.”

Think globally Act locally & globally

Evaluate interactions

TRANSFORMATION

LOCAL GLOBAL

GLOCAL

SUSTAINABLE

SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION

EVALUATION

CRITERIA

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Greenwashing Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.

Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or

providing misleading information about how a company’s products are more environmentally sound. Greenwashing is

considered an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into

believing that a company's products are environmentally friendly.

Greenwashing is a play on the term

"whitewashing," which means using

misleading information to gloss over bad

behavior.

Transformation

Glossing

SUSTAINABLE

SYSTEMS

TRANSFORMATION

CRITERIA

Transformation Trajectory

Theory of transformation

Transformational mechanisms

Transformational engagement

Transformational trajectory

Transformational principles framework

Blue Marble Evaluation

A WORLD

TRANSFORMED

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