digital field worker and the “mds” application lusaka, 30 th april shaun ferris

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