Monitoring & Evaluation

Poimapper is a great fit for monitoring and evaluation work within international development programs. The service has applications for all user types, be they field workers, volunteers, or community representatives working in remote and urban conditions. We have ongoing and successfully completed projects in dozens of countries across the world.

Poimapper is designed for monitoring the status and progress of development program activities and outcomes. Both snapshot and longitudinal data collection is support across a rich data set with the collected data immediate visible after synchronisation online, on the collection device and even on other field devices if desired. Poimapper is optimized to work in both offline and online conditions and supports dynamic route and area tracking. We have

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Monitoring & Evaluation Cases

Plan Kenya has used Poimapper for extensive mapping of water and sanitation services for both households and schools in Kilifi. The results so far have been reported in mGesa pilot project evaluation report June 2011 final-1. According to the report
“ The portal offered a very good platform for accessing the spatial relationship of the various POIs e.g. overlaying the homesteads against water points to ascertain the access to water for the community. Exported data to spreadsheet applications proved very useful for quantitative analysis.

Based on this, one can conclude that the application can be used to collect data that can be used to inform program needs, designs and strategies. It can also be used to communicate relevant information for development. The information also provides a snapshot on the degree of certain situations and monitor trends of change e.g. child abuse cases, number of orphans, latrine coverage, accessibility of water etc.”

The international consulting company Niras is assisting Kenya Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 in accelerating the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Kenya.

As part of this effort an intervention implementation monitoring and impact evaluation framework has been developed for program M&E based on Poimapper. The framework is now deployed in 9 pilot districts and used in over a dozen interventions in the field of health, agricultural development, and rural livelihood for both baseline studies and results-based monitoring of interventions.

For each intervention customized data forms are designed by the users of the system. Overall results are visualized both on maps and via custom built dashboards.

Innovative interventions in Kenya are small, community-based projects which focus on specific MDG targets where the respective district is lagging behind. The primary purpose of the interventions is to demonstrate the benefits of small projects addressing the needs of the community. The aim is to attract other partners to participate and contribute for the up-scaling and replication of these projects.

Interventions where Poimapper is used for monitoring of project process and outcome indicators are carried out in the nine Greater Millennium Districts selected by the MDGs Programme: Bondo, Bungoma, Garissa, Kilifi, Meru South, Murang’a, Siaya, Suba and Turkana.

The size of these interventions varies, but are typically implemented within the period of 12 months. Most of the projects are capacity building projects, procurement of inputs or small investments in equipment and machinery.

With Poimapper detailed activities, outcomes and outputs are recorded of the project