Welcome to the Smart Toolkit Website.
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.
Sensitisation of the Smart Toolkit at the IAALD XIIIth World Congress
Recently (26-29 April 2010), the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) held its 13th World Congress in Montpellier, France, bringing together approximately 200 agricultural information specialists from over 50 countries.
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Information and Knowledge for Development Forum (InK4DEV)
InK4DEV workshops in Namibia (9-13 Nov, 2009)
Planned workshops
This section provides information on planned activities to promote the use of the Smart toolkit.
Paper: Beyond Logframe: Using Systems Concepts in Evaluation
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).
Video: Development is not an intervention
Fred Carden, Director of Evaluation for the International Development Research Centre, recently presented during the Witwatersrand Virtual Conference on Methodology in Programme Evaluation.
Paper: Next Generation Network Evaluation
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.
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The Toolkit and the Gender issue
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.