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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services: Second Edition: Introduction
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In 2001, a group of information practitioners from various development agencies, led by CTA, KIT and IICD, began working together to produce a manual that would support self-evaluation by information practitioners. At their first meeting the word ‘smart’ was chosen to emphasise ‘best practice’ and as an oblique reference to the SMART indicators (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) common in evaluation literature.
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services: Second Edition: Part I Evaluation Context
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In Part 1, we start by providing some background to monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, what the terms mean, and recent changes in approach.
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services: Second Edition: Part II The Evaluation Process
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In Part 2, we move on to the evaluation process itself. This process can be grouped into four phases: preparing the evaluation terms of reference, designing the evaluation, implementing the evaluation, following up the evaluation
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services: Second Edition: Part III Evaluation Tools
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In Part 3 we look at the evaluation tools.The tools featured here are those that we consider to be well suited to evaluating information projects, products and services.With the increasing demand for information practitioners to evaluate their projects themselves, and not rely on external evaluations, the tools chosen are also seen as suitable for self-evaluation and for fostering learning and stakeholder participation...
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Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Projects, Products and Services: Second Edition: Part IV Evaluation Guidelines
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This Part features case studies of evaluations of selected information projects, products and services. In each case we describe the activity and its concept and objectives, and look at how to prepare, implement and report an evaluation of the activity.
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