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Welcome to the Smart Toolkit Website

Fri, 27/01/2012 - 11:30 — Admin

Over the past nine years, the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in collaboration with other development agencies has been actively involved in developing and promoting the use of methodologies for monitoring and evaluating information products and services in an effort to improve project management both in-house and among its partners. In 2005, CTA along with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and a host of other institutions and individuals from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, EU, Canada, Sri Lanka and the United States produced the first version of the Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services.

Training of Trainers Course on the Use of the Smart Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation

Thu, 26/01/2012 - 17:04 — Karen Batjes

CTA in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community will be holding a training course on the Use of the Smart toolkit for monitoring and evaluating information projects, products and services. The main objective of the course is to empower information specialists to develop competencies in evaluating their information projects. It is also envisaged that those trained will initiate trainings to train other information practitioners on the use of the toolkit. Please see the attachment for more details.

Expert seminar on ‘Developmental Evaluation’

Fri, 02/12/2011 - 12:40 — Admin

Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation is organising an expert seminar on 'Developmental Evaluation' with the renowned Dr. Michael Quinn Patton. This event will take place on Thursday 22nd March in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Hindrances in Monitoring and Evaluating Information Products and Services: Results from the LinkedIn Group Discussion

Mon, 14/11/2011 - 17:48 — Admin

In general, information practitioners appreciate the need to monitor and evaluate information projects, products and services. However, feedback suggests that many practitioners find it difficult to do so. From the discussions on LinkedIn (Smart toolkit group), there are many aspects to this problem.

UNICEF publication on "How to design and manage Equity-focused evaluations"

Tue, 25/10/2011 - 00:00 — Admin

The push for a stronger focus on equity in human development is gathering momentum at the international level. Its premise is increasingly supported by United Nations reports and strategies as well as by independent analysis. More and more national policies and international alliances are focusing on achieving equitable development results. While this is the right way to go, it poses important challenges – and opportunities – to the evaluation function.

Information and Knowledge for Development (InK4DEV) workshop in 2012

Wed, 21/09/2011 - 11:15 — Admin

The Information and knowledge for development (InK4DEV) was created in 2009 to raise awareness among policy-makers, decision-makers, managers and information specialists on the need for organisations to develop information strategies and share information and knowledge and the tools available to do this. To complement this, monitoring and evaluation is also being promoted among key stakeholders to help them improve their capacity to manage their information services. To this end, the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation is planning to hold meetings under the InK4DEV banner next year. Participants for the meeting will be drawn primarily from sub-Saharan Africa. The date for the meeting will be announced early 2012.

New Online Forum: "Challenges and Opportunities for Capturing Impact in ICT initiatives in Agriculture"

Tue, 20/09/2011 - 21:29 — Admin

From 25 September to 6 October 2011 Katalyst and e-Agriculture will organize a new online forum to discuss the challenges of linking impact with the use of ICTs in agriculture. This forum will discuss the present practices and critical issues (regarding both implementation and monitoring) of ICT initiatives in agriculture.