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Once again, our website has acquired a new look. Nothing wrong with the old one, but it is always fun to create a "new look". Besides the technology and the functionality just keep improving. So we cannot resist the challenge. This website is the 8th incarnation since 2005.

Version 2 of our highly acclaimed Development Scorecard has just been released.  The Development Scorecard is a dashboard-type status report on programme/project implementation.  Using indicators, the Scorecard tracks overall objectives, immediate objectives, outputs, and activities.  The Scorecard also measures progress in relation to inputs, assesses performance using the OECD/DAC criteria, and monitors project assumptions and risk.

Sometimes people say the nicest things!  About fifteen years ago, Tim Cartwright wrote a book on how to use a spreadsheet to run simulation models of social and environmental processes.  The book was called Modeling the World in a Spreadsheet (Johns Hopkins University Press).  Apparently, people are still reading the book, and one of them was moved to post a very kind review on Amazon.

The website has a new look for 2009 -- cleaner, brighter, simpler.  New content has been added.  Navigation is easier.  There is added functionality.  There have been big changes "beneath the surface", too:  we have switched from Mambo to Joomla.  Please let us know what you think of it!

What do these countries have in common? Amongst other things, all three have been the subject of proposals prepared by Tim Cartwright & Associates over the last two months!

Tim Cartwright & Associates have just completed a mid-term evaluation of a programme to strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries in Benin.  The programme was seen as a stepping-stone in the evolution of project-based collaboration towards budgetary support.