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Rwanda National Election Commission Voter Registration & Verification Project - Final Report
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This document is the final report of the pilot PDA application for voter registration and verification efforts within the broader "Rwanda ICT for Elections and Community Access Project". Submitted by SATELLIFE in August 2005.
Extract:"Many of Rwandas rural areas and small towns lack affordable and reliable access to ICTs, including telephones, internet, fax, and computers. In the process, people, businesses and organizations in these areas are unable to compete effectively in the national or global economy. To address this issue, the dot-ORG/Rwanda project was tasked to establish 2-4 locally owned-and- operated Community Internet Centers (CICs) in small towns and/or rural areas of Rwanda.
It was proposed that at least one of these CICs would be established in an area without connectivity or electricity (a so-called off-grid area). These off-grid CICs would potentially have to use connectivity and energy-related technologies such as satellite (VSAT), wireless (WiFi), solar power, etc. Through its work on other USAID ICT-for-development projects, AED had gained extensive experience in implementing public access IT centers (telecenters). AED thus proposed to apply to the specific Rwandan context lessons learned from those projects and those by other development initiatives."
Rwanda ICT for Elections and Community Access - Final Report
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This document is the final report for the "ICT for Elections and Community Access" project in Rwanda.
Extract:"Dot-ORG believes that the major objectives of the project have been successfully completed. In terms of the CIC (Community Access Center) activity, the project catalyzed the creation of sustainable public access centers in rural and underserved areas that have helped small businesses and provided important information, knowledge and skills for a wide range of constituents (e.g. students, local government officials). In this way, it appears that the CIC model is one that might be feasibly scaled up to a wider level.
The project also identified and implemented innovative solutions to complex energy problems, and the lessons learned from that activity should be of great value to other related development issues worldwide. See the separate report on the Battery Backup Solutions deployed to support the CICs.
Through the technical assistance activities with the NEC (National Election Commission), dot-ORG believes it established an effective working relationship with the Commission and strengthened its capacity in a variety of ways. In turn, it can be argued that the database management and training support plus the creation of four million personalized voter registration cards has and will continue to play a helpful role in improving the electoral process, and, hopefully, to Rwandas path to more effective democratic governance more broadly.
Equally, the PDA pilot activity yielded valuable new lessons on the use of handheld devices for improving democratic reform and governance, and it is hoped that this type of activity can and will be replicated elsewhere where appropriate.
Nepal Health Monitoring - Final Report
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This is the final report of the Nepal health monitoring project which involved the use of handheld computers to facilitate data collection and analysis around surveys and other monitoring activities. Submitted by SATELLIFE in June 2005.
Extract:"The Nepal Health Monitoring Pilot was designed to support the U.S. Agency for International Developments Nepal mission (USAID-Nepal) and the Asia & Near East Bureau (ANE) in assessing the use of handheld computer technology (personal digital assistants or PDAs) for ongoing program monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The pilot ran from December 2003 through April 2005 and focused on health surveys related to Family Health Planning (FHP). The pilot was funded through USAIDs dot-ORG initiative, which is managed by the Academy for Educational Development (AED).
This project was led by SATELLIFE, Inc., a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) working in partnership with HealthNet Nepal (HNN), a Nepal-based NGO, to build the capacity of two local participating institutions: Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP) and Nepali Technical Assistance Group (NTAG). SATELLIFE and HNN assisted NFHP in acquiring the capacity to use PDAs to provide technical assistance to health workers and NTAG in acquiring the capacity to use PDAs for conducting its biannual Vitamin A survey."
Programa para o Futuro: Enabling Disadvantaged Youth to Build New Futures - Monograph
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This AED publication highlights lessons learned from the Programa para o Futuro Project implemeted by AED and partners in Brazil with core funding from USAID.
Extract: "People from all social and economic strata often dream of starting over with a clean slate and reinventing themselves. Unfortunately, even though the dream of a new life is an essential part of change, it cannot by itself enable people to transform their lives and create new futures. For disadvantaged youth living in poverty, with limited education, inadequate networks, and poor communication and workplace skills, faded dreams are often all that they have.
So, what does it take to enable disadvantaged youth to transform themselves and build newfutures? This is the question that Programa Para o Futuro (PPF) was designed to answer. More specifically, the pilot program tested and refined a strategy for permanent transformation that integrated technical, basic education; employability; and social skills training with mentoring and a strong social support system."
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