Evaluation Report on GenARDIS - Gender for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society

GenARDIS, as a small grants fund, is making important inroads into the information and communication technology (ICT) for development field in the African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) countries. It is consciously encouraging and engendering the adoption and application of ICT. This is the overall finding of an evaluation conducted over five months in 2006, with the aims of: (a) Identifying and assessing the achievements of the two phases of GenARDIS; (b) Assessing the changes (in capacities, resource-sharing, services provided, program delivery, etc.) perceived and experienced by the people-Awardees of GenARDIS during their involvement in the project; and © Identifying lessons learnt to feed into GenARDIS for its evolution toward its next phase of design and implementation.