Publications on Uganda http://www.iicd.org daily 1 2008-08-24T21:20:02Z ICT led social innovation process 2011 http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/ict-led-social-innovation-process-2011 Feedback, evaluation and lessons learned when designing ICT for development programmes. Co-creation of programmes in ICT for health, education and economic development has been the starting point for the Connect 4 Change (C4C) alliance and put into practise in 2011. IICD, Cordaid, Edukans and ICCO in collaboration with AKVO, Text2Change and partner organisations united for the design and implementation of ICT4Development programmes. This so-called ICT-led social innovation process started in 2011 in Burkina Faso, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Peru, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

]]> No publisher Liesbeth Hofs ICT4D CapDev Capacity building Social innovation 2012-04-24T16:30:00Z Publication ICT for rural economic development: five years of learning http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/ict-for-rural-economic-development-five-years-of-learning IICD's experiences in rural economic development: Five years of learning. This publication gives an overview of the lessons learned and examples of IICD's work in ICT for rural economic development in the past five years

]]> No publisher JJessurun Ghana ICT4D Food Security M&E IICD Zambia Vocational Training IICD Publications / Lessons Access Mobile IICD Publications / Reports Netherlands Livelihoods Foodsecurity Bolivia Agriculture Burkina Faso Ecuador ICT 2012-03-16T16:10:00Z Publication Summary Learning Report 2009 - Uganda Country Programme http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/summary-learning-report-2009-uganda-country-programme From the IICD Learning Report series. A Summary Learning report from the Uganda Country Programme about the impact of the country programme in Uganda (2009). This report is a summary of the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) report on the Uganda Country Programme in 2009. Evaluation reports are meant for learning, hence they focus on the outcomes and impact of the projects as well as their successes and challenges, rather than checking on project progress or money spent, which is done via progress reports.

Evaluations are based on questionnaires for different stakeholders. Depending on the country, the evaluation includes project teams reflecting on IICD's support), participants of trainings (reflecting on capacity development) and end users (reflecting on the projects they take part in).

The evaluation report below gives an overview of both the data collected and the discussions that followed in the Focus Groups. Though sensitive information from specific partners has been removed to maintain a trust relationship with and between partners, M&E reports are an honest representation of the processes and lessons concerning the Country Programme. In 2009, activities of the Country Programme were in three sectors namely: Livelihoods, Health and Governance.

 

]]> No publisher Annemiek van Schie 2010-08-23T11:10:00Z Publication Seven Lessons on How to Achieve Effective National ICT4D Policy Processes http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/seven-lessons-on-how-to-achieve-effective-national-ict4d-policy-processes This summary provides perspectives and insights gained from ICT4D policy processes in Bangladesh, Bolivia and Uganda through the collaborative work of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). The publication aims to add to the growing body of practical knowledge on how ICT policy processes unfold in the planning and development phases, who has been or should have been involved, and what has worked well (or not so well).

]]> No publisher Allison Van Vlerken 2010-05-01T00:43:47Z Publication Lecciones Aprendidas para el Proceso de Formulacion de las Políticas TIC para el Desarrollo http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/lecciones-aprendidas-para-el-proceso-de-formulacion-de-las-politicas-tic-para-el-desarrollo Perspectivas desde Bangladesh, Bolivia y Uganda ¿POR QUÉ ESTE RESUMEN?

Esta reseña pone en evidencia experiencias prácticas y lecciones aprendidas en procesos de formulación de políticas TIC en tres países – Bangladesh, Bolivia y Uganda. Procesos que fueron llevados a cabo durante los últimos años. Cada uno de estos tres países ha desarrollado políticas dirigidas específicamente a la aplicación de las TIC a nivel nacional o en sectores de desarrollo tales como la agricultura, educación, salud o gobernabilidad.

Con el objeto de apropiarse de los aprendizajes derivados de los diferentes procesos de políticas TIC, la APC y el IICD se comprometieron en la realización de una serie de estudios de evaluación, con el fin de incrementar el conocimiento referido a los procesos participativos en la formulación de políticas TIC para el desarrollo.

Estos estudios fueron concebidos para mejorar la comprensión de los procesos que requieren las políticas TIC, centradas en resolver los problemas de la pobreza y también para aprender de los procesos de colaboración y de investigación. Las lecciones aprendidas fueron discutidas a fondo y finalmente consolidadas en oportunidad de un taller que se llevó a cabo a principios de 2007. Lo que aquí se presenta es la cristalización de los puntos clave que surgieron de los diferentes estudios y de las deliberaciones llevadas a cabo por los participantes del taller. Los aprendizajes que aquí se comparten se han logrado merced al trabajo en colaboración de gobiernos y la sociedad civil en los países dos organizaciones – la Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones (APC) y el Instituto Internacional para la Comunicación y el Desarrollo (IICD). Ambos organismos han estado participando en el desarrollo de políticas durante muchos años.

La APC ha tenido un rol activo en el empoderamiento de la sociedad civil y en la ampliación del alcance y el volumen de la participación de diferentes partes interesadas, con el objeto de ejercer influencia en las políticas. El IICD, por su parte, ha tenido una participación activa en fomentar el desarrollo de redes formadas por múltiples partes interesadas, con la participación de la sociedad civil, del sector privado y de organizaciones gubernamentales activas en el área de las TIC para el Desarrollo (ICT4D).

]]> No publisher adm 2009-11-22T22:16:31Z Publication The critical issues affecting the introduction of Health Management Information Systems in developing countries in Africa http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/the-critical-issues-affecting-the-introduction-of-health-management-information-systems-in-developing-countries-in-africa In Tanzania, Mali, Zambia and Uganda information systems are being introduced in hospitals in the form of health management information systems. But with a lack of relevant research done in these countries about the introduction of technologies like information systems there is not much to go by. Thesis by Nicole Archangel, completed in October 2007. The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) works in nine countries in Africa and Latin America. IICD has since 1998 been supporting partner organizations with the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development and poverty alleviation, amongst others in the health sector. For the past years they have been supporting projects in Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia implementing systems into healthcare.

IICD sees the importance of a decentralized system for health information management and wants to take stock of the achievements of projects that have been implementing information systems, gather experiences and lessons learned and identify challenges for introducing and using information system (IS) in healthcare.

This is why together with IICD this research wants to identify the issues that have to be considered when implementing information systems in the form of a health management information system in hospitals on the district level in the countries supported by IICD. This in support of the belief that a convincing and operational framework for assessing health system performance is vital for the work of governments, development agencies and multilateral institutions.

]]> No publisher adm 2009-11-22T22:16:31Z Publication Impact IICD health projects http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/impact-iicd-health-projects Hanna Goorden of IICD analysed the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) data that has been gathered from the IICD projects in the health sector. She reports on the satisfaction of project users with the health services they use through the project and how the project has impacted their lives. The brief starts by exploring how ICT can strengthen the health care sector and how IICD health projects contribute to ICT awareness, empowerment and impact on health care.

The IICD projects are clustered to distinguish the different categories of project users. This classification is useful for IICD, as it better allows attributing impact to our different groups of project users:

  • Policy-makers
  • Health staff and/or health students (including Health, hospital & patient information, Professional development & Continuous Medical Education (CME), and Telemedicine)
  • Patients and/or people in the community

The second part discusses the M&E results and summarises the main lessons-learned from the health projects.

]]> No publisher adm 2009-11-22T22:16:31Z Publication Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) as a tool for organisational development http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/health-management-information-systems-hmis-as-a-tool-for-organisational-development This paper describes how an HMIS can also be used for organisational development and reports on the experiences of the HMIS programme of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) in Uganda. The goal of the paper is to evaluate the project against a background of organisational development and to draw practical lessons from the project that may provide guidance to new HMIS projects in the development context.

By Christine Fenenga (Cordaid) and Arjan de Jager (IICD)

]]> No publisher adm 2009-11-22T22:16:31Z Publication E-Governance - The Case of DistrictNet in Uganda http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/e-governance-the-case-of-districtnet-in-uganda E-Governance - The Case of DistrictNet in Uganda, by Arjan de Jager and Victor van Reijswoud. Presentation and evaluatation of an e-governance programme in the East African country of Uganda. E-Governance is a powerful tool for bringing about change to government processes in the developing world. E-governance operates at the cross roads between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and government processes, and can be divided into three overlapping domains: e-administration, e-services and e-society. In order to be successful, egovernance must be firmly embedded in the existing government processes, must be supported, both politically and technically, by the governments, and must provide users with reasons to use these on-line domains. In order to maximize the impact, process change needs to be considered part and parcel of e-governance.

In this report, we present and evaluate an e-governance programme in the East African country of Uganda. The programme, DistrictNet, tries to provide transparency at the local government level and to improve the provision of public information through the implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). DistrictNet started in 2002 and is on-going. The achievements of the programme are presented and evaluated according to the criteria of the three domains of e-governance and their impact on government processes. On the basis of this evaluation, we elicit lessons that can be used to guide similar programmes at the local government levels in the developing world.

]]> No publisher adm 2009-11-22T22:16:31Z Publication Easy Guide to the Internet in Uganda http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/easy-guide-to-the-internet-in-uganda Increasingly the Internet has become a fact of everyday life for vast numbers of Ugandans who use it explicitly, or even implicitly, as they go about their everyday lives. Users and usage alike are increasing dramatically, all over the country and the Internet is firmly established as a critical infrastructure. Over the last few years we have seen the industry on the African subcontinent grow in leaps and bounds. Not only are we playing Catch-up but we are also leading in certain areas. This puts those of us who are technically inclined in a very exciting spot with numerous potential. 

I-Network Uganda has published the Easy guide to the Internet in Uganda . This network acts as a platform for sharing knowledge and information on applying ICT for development as well as influencing and supporting ICT policy development and implementation in Uganda. The handbook gives a comprehensive coverage of the service providers and their pricing policy. The Acronyms section breaks down the techie\sales talk while the rest of the book takes a novice or a seasoned user through the world of purchasing internet services in Uganda. 

As prices and possibilities in telecommunication change continuously, the information in this handbook will be updated regularly. Download the latest update (August 2007) below.

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