Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change (2025)

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From quick fixes to lasting change—this book invites a shift in how we see, influence, and evaluate complex systems. It’s a guide for funders, practitioners, and evaluators ready to move from fixing problems to transforming the conditions that create them.

Highlights 

  • Co-authored with Pablo Vidueira; published by SAGE

  • Explores what systemic change means, why it’s needed, how to do it, and how to evaluate the process and impacts of systemic change initiatives

  • Covers five phases to collaborative systemic change: envisioning change, mapping systems, finding leverage, navigating futures, and evaluating.

  • Unpacks five elements necessary for evaluating systems change: purpose, questions, value bases, evidence bases, and sensemaking.

  • Features comics by Chris Lysy of Fresh Spectrum

Hear about the book

  • It Depends Podcast, Episode #7 Press Pause: Rethinking Evaluation and Systems, Listen here

  • Outcome Mapping Learning Community Webinar | Watch here

  • Meet the Authors, American Evaluation Association Annual Conference