Vimbai Hungwe during group work, Namibia 2009

It is with deep sadness that we convey the news of the passing of Vimbai Hungwe. Vimbai died in a car accident on Sunday 7 June 2010 in South Africa. We all knew him as someone who was committed, dynamic and enthusiastic about his work - an outstanding individual.

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

Recently (26-29 April 2010), the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) held its 13^th World Congress in Montpellier, France, bringing together approximately 200 agricultural information specialists from over 50 countries.

The first independent review of UNDP Evaluation Policy, that was requested by the Executive Board in decision (2006/20) approving the policy in 2006, has been completed.

Docstoc is an online community and marketplace to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides a platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded. For supporting evaluation activities you will find among others examples of questionnaries and tracer studies.

The International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS) was inaugurated in September 2002 to help fill a gap in the international evaluation architecture.
IDEAS' mission is 'to advance and extend the practice of development evaluation by refining methods, strengthening capacity and expanding ownership', with a particular focus on developing and transitional economies.

IDEAS focuses on three major themes:

This chat and emai ldiscussion 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.

The chat discussion took place on 11 February 2010 and involved participants who attended the Smart Toolkit training which was held in St Lucia in November 2008. Additional contributions were received by email. The discussion focused on participants' experiences with the Smart Toolkit since attending the course.

In general, participants have found the Smart Toolkit to be very useful and do not have any major problems in applying the contents. There was, however, some difficulty in downloading the final document from the website, because of bandwidth problems.

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.

Training course on the Use of the Smart Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 9-13 November 2009