The Ministry of Education in partnership with Open Learning Exchange Rwanda and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) are organizing two workshops on “Monitoring and Evaluating Scientific electronic resources in Rwanda”
The first workshop shall be held at the National University of Rwanda (UNR) respectively on 7th and 8th December 2009; the second workshop shall be organized at the National Curriculum Development Center ( NCDC) from 17th to 18th December 2009.   
The purpose of these workshops is to strengthen and harmonize monitoring and evaluation (M and E) mechanisms to access and use scientific electronic resources in Rwanda. The major task is to learn from best Monitoring and Evaluation practices and to standardize guidelines of the following aspects:                                                                                                                                 

• Accessing e-resources (improving access points, connectivity (bandwidth), and optimization of existing ICTs infrastructures).                      
• Reflecting on electronic Publishing and citing of e-resources (what is being done) and its impact on M& E of the use of e-resources.        
• Training users (order of priority, search methodologies, purpose and function to increase e-resources users’ skills).                  

Building synergy (strengthening networks to use and share e-resources).