Lessons learned from assessment of the Environmental Health Project website

This report documents an assessment carried out in December 2001 of the Environmental Health Project (EHP) website (http://www.ehproject.org/). The website was evaluated for: usage; ease of usability (technical and design issues, download times); usefulness of content; and outcome of information provided (how the information accessed from the web was used). Interviews and an online survey was used to get feedback from EHP staff, USAID representatives and environmental health staff from the field and international organizations. Results showed that 68% of the website visitors accessed the website to download EHP publications and 59% came to the web for technical information (multiple answers were accepted). 90% of the survey respondents used the information accessed from the web¿the most common usages were for research and writing of reports, followed by program planning, capacity building (training) and program implementation. The respondents listed their job functions as: program implementation, research, management, consulting and information/communication.