Post on 16-Dec-2015
Digital Field worker and the “MDS” application
Lusaka, 30th AprilShaun Ferris
CRS Agriculture aims to
Enhance
• Productivity • Profitability• Skills• Asset
management
Project manager
Diseases
Project staff
ProductionSeeds/ inputs
Project staff Project staff Project staff Project staff
Farmer Groups5000 +
Theme leadersMaster trainers
CRS ProjectField staff
Local Partners
Field ExtensionAgents200 +
Digital Fieldworker Platform ( Current Series data flow)
Partner Staff
Finance Marketing
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Partner Staff
Project manager
Project staff
Theme leadersMaster trainers
Digital Fieldworker Platform (Parallel data flow)
Partner Staff
Accelerate DataFlow by replacingSeries data mapping with parallel data flowWith data quality checks
What is the market chain?
Supply and demand
Field Agent Training Kit
agro-enterprise course for field agent
Main Technology Input devices
Minimum Data Set (MDS)
Form 2.Biz Plan…………………………………………………..
Form 1.Farmer Group Registration…………………………………………………..
Form 3.Profitability calculatorGM……………………………..
Form 4.Production ProfileRainsDate planted, seed typeDate weededDate fertilizedDate harvested# bags kept, # bags sold
Form 5.Visit LogDateDurationPurposeOutcome
Form 6.BaselineSentinel ImpactΔ Income Δ AssetsΔ Food securityΔ Trading relationsΔ Income optionsΔ Service access
First Phase is to complete the first three forms
MDS Registration Page
Gross Margin Analysis8-9 bags / acres Exchange rate 2,000 Production 7.5 100 bags / acre Calculation based on 1acre Input costs Materials Quantity Type Unit costs Total Tools Hoes 5Hoes 3000 15,000 Panga 3Panga 2000 6,000 Hybrid seed 10kg 3000 30,000 Bags 8bags 600 4,800 Totals 55,800
Labour plowing 1st 7.5hired 4000 30,000 plowing 2nd 5hired 4000 20,000 Sowing 2hired 4000 8,000 Weeding 1st 7.5hired 4000 30,000 Weeding 2nd 5hired 4000 20,000 Harvest 4hired 4000 16,000 Totals 124,000
Total costs 179,800
Sales 1000kg 250 250,000
Gross income 70,200
MDS Profitability calculator
Cost Structure
Key Resources
Key Partners
Key Activities Customer relations
Customer segments
Value proposition
Channels
Revenue
MDS Business Planner
MDS Business Planner
Rethinking - M&E
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
M&E systems
Are we on track?
FrequentData flow
What do we need to measure to support 100 enterprises?
Architecture Data
Database 1
Database 2
Database 2
Reports• Field Agent• Supervisor• Program manager• Country• Global
May 31st
August 31st
August 31st
Air Adobe
Air Adobe
iforms
ICT4DGMCR
AFG
SARO 5 countries
ICT4DIndia / Phil
Pilot testing Timeline
Version 2.0MDS
Launch 1. Launch 2.
CRS focused andsupported
Amazon cloud hostedSaaS with partner
Feb 2011 May 2011 Jan 2012
Conclusion
• Develop a system to collect basic project data• Provide information that helps farmers• Use that process to gather M&E data• Analyse the data for both farm and project
performance monitoring and upgrading• Share data with other projects and partners