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Food Monitoring System (FMS)
Madagascar
RANDRIANASOLO Fidy Nirina
Commodity Manager CRS.MG
March 20, 2013
ICT4D Conference
Accra, Ghana
Mobile Services that Empower Vulnerable Communities
Plan of presentation:- Project Background- Context and issues in food management- ICT4D solution- Keys of successes- Challenges- What we learned
Project BackgroundGOAL: Reduce food insecurity in 98.500
households by 2014• SO1: Improve the nutrition and health
status of 96.000 children under five• SO2:Improve livelihood conditions of
82.000 food insecure households• SO3:Strengthen resilience of 592
communities• Cross – Cutting : Gender, Environmental
management, Governance and Partnership• Intervention Zones: 592 Communities,
in 112 communes, 21 Districts, and 7 Regions in Madagascar
• Consortium 04 INGOs: CRS-ADRA-CARE-LOL
• Implementing Partners: 5 Dioceses, and 15 Social Protection Centers
FOOD DISTRIBUTION ACTIVITIESADRA31%
LOL15%
CARE16%
CRS38%
27,170 MT food for distribution
Three sectors concerned: Mother and Child Health (MCH) under SO1; Food for Assets (FFA) and Safenet for Urban areas under SO3;
Four types of food for direct distribution
Summary for CRS food distribution:
* Food delivery serving the most vulnerable families in remote and landlocked areas
* Worked with Implementing partners (local NGOs)
* Committed with local carriers
* Supply chain managed from 3 main warehouses to sites
* Challenges to monitor the supply chain and quality of program indecisive
* Decision making difficult due to the lateness(more than one month) or inaccurate of information from the field
* Challenges in communication between main office and field staff
Context
ICT4D Solution: Implementation of Food Monitoring System(FMS) with Human Network International (HNI)
Keys successes Roll-out with all staff involved, and gave
them capacity in drafting/sending message by SMS
Systematic communication with field staff through administrator
Permanente checking of FMS to monitor the movement of food, and distribution
Data analysis to help management team for systematic information and/or decision
Summarize data for editing report required by the donor
Internal Control System
ChallengesDatasenders have access
reports based on dashboard information
FMS is a data collection system, and needs to be linked with other database used by M&E/ procurement.
For Compliance issues, need to perform end-use checking to confirm that data is really accurate and well documented. Need good supervision
Lessons LearnedService delivery improved :
Quick response in case of threat Canal of communication
available with field staff Quality of reports improved:
Involvement of technicians and support team
Appropriate decision made: information available in one day, and detailed for decision making
Sustainability strategyImplementing Partners
including local NGO trained to use it.
Use of the system to collect data in various activities: End-use Checking at recipients level, Warning system for emergency program, Monitoring of local market price, Monitoring of actions in environment issues
Share our experiences on it in large diffusion
Food Monitoring System or FMS is a tool based on the use of SMS and internet and that can help to increase efficiency, provide timely and accurate data to improve decision making in term of food distribution:
Increases our capacity to monitor our activities, the quality of report to donors, and the service delivery to beneficiary
Helps for decision making Enhances the impact in the life of
recipients that we serve focus of our mission
As a reminder…
THANK YOU!