A tool to enhancing productivity and increase efficiency in data gathering and report finding.

The most challenging aspect of implementing a complex community program for Project Management is organizing and navigating data to suit different purposes. Manual data collection using a sheet of paper creates too many problems plus it requires a bigger space to store them.

However, as the world moves toward digital transformation practices, most big programs are empowered by data and information generated by a system specifically designed and built for monitoring and evaluation purposes called MIS (Management Information System). As a tool, MIS helps to provide any real-time information needed for report purposes, analysis, comparison, lesson learned, or simply general information. Through this information management, the program management, stakeholders event operational staff will be able to access data for analysis, forecast, and make decisions as well as anticipation responses, from anywhere at any time.

However, many are still reluctant to consider its role within the program simply due to a lack of understanding on how to build it or it’s too “techie” and hard to handle tech stuff. Fair enough! But with the world changing faster into the digital realm, the advantage of having these tools is obvious.

The good news is, that building MIS for Monitoring and Evaluation is not a tech-based process. It’s a human-centered design outcome, based on design thinking. The program needs to design its specific needs of Monitoring and Evaluation, setting up the framework, the process, and implementation as well as output. Usually, this was done through workshops and FGD to identify Goals, Outcomes, Intermediate outcomes, and outputs right down to activities. A team of Monitoring & Evaluation specialists can help the program design and create the MIS they need.

Our experience in designing and implementing systems for program monitoring and evaluation information may help your organization to build for your specific needs.