Global Libraries Impact Planning and Assessment Pogress.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to report on performance measurement and impactassessment progress made in 14 countries as part of the Global Libraries initiative, starting with theearly country grants in Mexico and Chile. For the mature grants in Bulgaria, Botswana, Poland,Romania, Ukraine and Viet Nam which were recently completed or are approaching completion, thenature of the country program is outlined, before the impact assessment work is described and somerecent results and conclusions are reported. A similar approach is adopted with pilot and new grants inColombia, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey and Lithuania.