Smart Toolkit for evaluating information projects, products and services

Paper published by FASID containing three articles reflecting upon the use of Logframe and systems concepts in Evaluation activities and a report on two collaborative evaluations of Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects. See the attached document (pdf).

This paper reviews the current field of network monitoring and evaluation with the goal of identifying where progress has been made and where further work is still needed. It proposes a framework for network impacts planning, assessment, reporting and learning that can help to close some of the current gaps in network evaluation while building on the advances that have been made. This document is written for practitioners undertaking network evaluation and foundation program staff working to support networks.

As part of Round 3 of the Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) programme of activities, a final workshop was held in March of this year, in Johannesburg, South Africa. GenARDIS, a small grants fund, was established to support innovative activities that contribute to the gender-sensitive application of ICTs in agriculture and rural development and the understanding of gender issues in ICTs.

Wireless Networking in the Developing World, 2nd edition: A practical guide to planning and building low-cost telecommunications

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This chat and emaildiscussion took place on 11 March 2010 with participants of the Smart Toolkit training course held in Namibia in November 2010.  The discussion focused on participants' experiences with the Smart Toolkit since attending the course.

This is a summary of what has happened since the workshop.
 Whether you were able to carry out an evaluation based on your  action plan and if not, why not?

Unfortunately, the ACTIVate project which I was going to evaluate with the SMART Toolkit lagged behind because of some management issues. A critical aspect of the project was not developped in time, and the project had to be concluded and then reviewed.

We have discussed the participatory video making which was taught and the plans are still on train to use that in another project.

The new edition of the Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Projects and Services is now available as an online document.

There are six main parts to the toolkit:

1) The Introduction to the Toolkit 

2) Part 1 The Evaluation Context 

3) Part 2 The Evaluation Process 

4) Part 3 Evaluation Tools 

5) Part 4 Evaluation Guidelines 

6) Annexes

This section is specially for publications and reports prepared more than 3 years ago.

The first version of the toolkit can be found here.