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Reginald Lyakurwa from Longido District taking
pictures with the tablet during one of his coordination visits to the Maisha
Bora programme activities.
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In June 2016 BTC launched a mobile monitoring system based
on the free and open source solutions offered by Kobo Toolbox. The tools allow
BTC and their local government partners to collect monitoring data using an
application on their tablets, aggregate all the data on the Kobo Toolbox server
and export them directly to any of their preferred analysis tools: Excel, QGIS
or Tableau Public.
The first results look promising. Mathias Lardinois,
programme coordinator explains: “We are
collecting rich and reliable data, we limit the time spent on data collection
and analysis, minimize data entry errors and we ensure a fast flow of
information from the field to the office. Basically these tools help us to take
better decisions based on reliable information from the field.”
“Putting in place the
technology is the relatively easy part. We are investing a lot of time in
training our partners in the use of the tablets and making sure they can all
keep up with the technology” says Toon Driesen, junior assistant for BTC . By
setting up data collection campaigns together with their programme partners and
sharing knowledge and experiences with organizations outside the Maisha Bora
programme, BTC also contributes to a local community of practice.
Mathias & Toon finally give some advice to other
development actors who want to set-up their own M&E system:
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