IATP Monitoring and Evaluation Report - IREX

Year Two:
• 2,824 local government representatives used IATP services, with 1,421
completing training
• 850 NGO officials used IATP services, with 571 completing training
• 1,430 librarians used IATP services, and 1,015 completed training
• 1,042 private entrepreneurs used IATP services, with 343 completing
training
• 373 media officials used IATP services, with 340 completing training
Since June 2007, with every target group except NGO representatives (where
IATP served almost exactly the number targeted), IREX exceeded its combined
year one and two target outputs. In looking at the combined total of the two
year outputs, IATP services were utilized by 150% more local government representatives
and librarians than anticipated and more than twice as many entrepreneurs
took advantage of IATP centers than expected. One hundred and thirty
percent more media representatives also utilized IATP services through training
or internet access in the last 30 months. Of these 16,923 users, IREX trained
9,260 within these target audiences alone over the last two years—an average
of over 300 per month.
Government Representatives
Cooperation with local governments aimed at enabling officials to better respond
to citizen needs and increase the transparency of government activities.
Since June 2007, 6,800 local government representatives (2,300 more than the
targeted 4500) used IATP center facilities and over 3,900 completed IATP technical
training.
“Conducting market research
online and receiving
business offers via the
internet is very fast and
convenient, as compared
to making expensive international
calls and using
postal services. Beginning
in February, I stopped
making international calls
and using postal services
for marketing purposes,
which has saved a lot of
my work time and money
for the Ministry.”
engineer, Ministry of
Energy, Turkmenistan
A good example of cooperation with government officials is IATP’s mobile training
for nine press secretaries from Tajikistan government bodies in August 2008.
Representatives from three government entities (the Supreme Court, the Drug
Control Agency, and the Committee on Economy, Budget, Finance, and Tax), as
well as representatives from the Tajik National Bank and some media organizations
received training on how to write effective press releases. The training
addressed unique communication challenges and the means of solving them,
such as writing press releases in the Tajik language without using Tajik characters.
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Officials from the Turkmenistan Ministry of Energy also learned to use computers
and internet at the IATP center in Ashgabat to conduct low-cost yet effective
online marketing research. After the Turkmen Ministry of Energy was
computerized and all its departments were connected to the internet in 2008, it
requested that IATP train its employees in ICT skills—since most had neither the
experience nor the skills to implement ICT in their daily work. In January and
February 2009, 15 employees from the Ministry’s departments, including mechanical
engineering, power-supervision, petroleum-based fuels and transport,
and instrument construction, became familiarized with the internet for the first
time. Since the training, the government officials have begun using the internet
to learn more about the electricity industry in other countries, establish contact
with international suppliers, and began communicating via e-mail with international
partners, saving money for their departments. As a result of the Ministry
employees’ ability to conduct market research online and follow up with international
suppliers, the Ministry is now acquiring a better supply of electricity
from a plant in Nizhgorod, Russia (http://iatpnews.typepad.com/iatp/2009/03/
turkmenistan-ministry-of-energy-officials-learn-to-work-efficiently-online.html).
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For more information, see IATP Interim Report, June 2007-December 2008 (http://www.irex.org/programs/iatp/iatp_me.asp )
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