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Lessons Learned and Program Recommendations. This section discusses lessons learned in the implementation of the PAED project as well as one of ATA’s match-funded, projects, the SME Pan-Africa project.11 The SME project included ATA’s Tanzanian and South African partners, and sought additional African craft- based SMEs to participate in product development, training, and market link work. Zambian and Ghanaian enterprises participated and approximately another ten were evaluated. See also section 1.5.8 for program management lessons learned. In Mozambique, ATA’s office is still squarely in the commercial chain, despite efforts to recruit exporters. The project is finally looking at expatriates in Mozambique, but should have looked at these potential entrepreneurs much earlier. Once the office stops doing the functions of an exporter, considerable staff time will be freed up for other program activities. Sustainability is still a long way off without this key link in the commercial chain. Mozambican artisans are facing cash flow problems, which makes export orders less appealing. The office has made some initial links to microcredit, but credit is still quite expensive and credit products do not match artisan needs well. To partially address this problem, where XXX is acting as the exporter, artisans are now being paid upon receipt—more common in the industry globally—rather than paid when payment from the buyer arrives, usually 30-60 days later. Local and regional markets provide a tremendous opportunity that ATA had largely overlooked in the past. The South African market was deliberately built into the PAED plan, and that strategy is bearing fruit for all three of the PAED countries. Mozambique’s most reliable, biggest buyers are South African, and BAT Shop’s local sales alone are nearly at the sales goal. In the first half of FY05, half of the global sales that ATA leverages were local. It is essential that ATA capture the knowledge acquired in field offices on local marketing so that it can be easily disseminated. After struggling to recruit and screen Tanzanian companies, ATA adapted previous internal screening tools and developed an SME diagnostic tool. ATA used both on-site assessments and asked companies to fill in the diagnostic; in both cases, US-based staff reviewed the 11 The IFC funded the two-year, $500,000 SME project. Half the SMEs were African and the other half were Asian, Latin American, and Eastern European. African enterprises were markedly less developed overall. candidates’ prof...
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Lessons Learned and Program Recommendations. ▪ Outline the main lessons learned from the MG program that would be applicable beyond the program sites. ▪ Provide recommendations for the PVO, partner organizations and USAID/PVC
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  • Conclusions and Recommendations The demonstration and evaluation process provided an opportunity to test community specific tools with a range of end users from the memory institution domain and to gain greater insight into both the current and future evolution of the SHAMAN prototypes for preservation, access and re-use. Xxxx et al. (2000) in their user evaluation study of the Alexandria Digital Library which incorporated the evaluation of a Web prototype by earth scientists, information specialists and educators raised four key questions in relation to their findings that SHAMAN may be well advised to consider, they are paraphrased here with our conclusions from the investigations. What have we learned about our target organizations and potential users?  Memory institutions are most definitely not a homogenised group; their needs and requirements differ greatly across the domain.  Representatives of the archives community are agreed on the benefits of SHAMAN‟s authenticity validation function.  The representatives of government information services remained unconvinced as to the need or benefit of grid technologies or distributed ingest while librarians saw the value of grid access as an asset of the framework. What have we learned about the evaluation approach for digital preservation?  Within the limits of the exercise, in terms of time-frame and resources, the approach adopted has generated useful information for the further development of demonstrators and for the development of the SHAMAN framework overall. What have we learned about the SHAMAN ISP1 demonstrator?  Respondents to the evaluation questionnaires and the focus groups indicate that, overall, the presentation of the demonstrator worked effectively and that, in general, participants in the demonstration and evaluation events were able to understand the intentions of the demonstration and to apply the ideas presented to their own context. What have we learned about the applicability of the SHAMAN framework to memory institutions?  Respondents to the questionnaires and participants in the focus groups readily identified the value of the SHAMAN framework to their own operations. The majority had not yet established a long-term digital preservation policy, but recognized the need. Generally, the concepts of distributed ingest and grid operations found favour.  Virtually all practitioners in the focus groups, however, drew attention to need of a lower level demonstration that would be closer to their everyday preservation troubles, especially for digital preservation to be applied to non-textual materials, such as film, photographs and sound archives. In addition to the criteria suggested by Xxxx et al., we can add a further project-related question: What have we learned that has implications for the training and dissemination phase of the Project?  It was not part of the remit of the demonstration and evaluation specifically to discover information of relevance to the training and dissemination function. However, a number of factors will affect the efficacy of any training programme in particular. o First, no common understanding of digital preservation can be assumed of the potential target audiences for training. Consequently, it is likely that self-paced learning materials will be most effective in presenting the SHAMAN framework. o Secondly, the aims of SHAMAN as a project must be conveyed clearly: specifically, that it is a kind of „proof-of-concept‟ project and is not intended to deliver a package of programs capable of being implemented by institutions. o Thirdly, it needs to be emphasised that the SHAMAN framework is not limited to text documents; it can be applied to materials of all kinds. However, the demonstrations relate to bodies of material that were actually available for use. o Fourthly, the existing presentation materials are capable of being adapted for use in training activities. o Finally, the target audiences will appreciate the possibility of online access to the demonstrator, which will need to have very great ease of access in order that people with diverse backgrounds are able to use it with equal facility. We believe that, overall, WP14 has met its aims and objectives in this demonstration and evaluation of ISP1. Valuable lessons have been learnt by all parties involved, which will be transferred to the evaluation of ISP2 in the coming months.

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