'Smart Toolkit' published

The end of November 2005 was a landmark occassion for me as it saw the publication of the 'Smart toolkit for evaluating information products and services', a co-publication and joint initiative of CTA, KIT and IICD. As one of the three co-ordinators (the others are Lola Visser and Lisette Gast) , the Toolkit has been a labour of love, involving a vast number of information practitioners and evaluation experts and covering three years. I am extremely proud to have been part of this huge undertaking which will, in my opinion, change the field of the evaluation of information forever.

The Toolkit was launched in Tanzania and was extremely well recieved by the persons for whom it is intended: managers of information products and services in the South. Quoting from one participant at the launch in Tanzania:

The toolkit is useful for all kinds of evaluation. East to read, easy to understand...It can help us and others to deal with evaluation.