Digital Field worker and the MDS application Lusaka

Digital Field worker and the “MDS” application Lusaka, 30 th April Shaun Ferris

CRS Agriculture aims to Enhance • • Productivity Profitability Skills Asset management

Digital Fieldworker Platform ( Current Series data flow) Project manager Diseases Project staff Partner Staff Seeds/ inputs Project staff Partner Staff Production Project staff Partner Staff Finance Project staff Partner Staff Theme leaders Master trainers Marketing Project staff Partner Staff CRS Project Field staff Local Partners Field Extension Agents 200 + Farmer Groups 5000 +

Digital Fieldworker Platform (Parallel data flow) Project manager Theme leaders Master trainers Project staff Partner Staff Accelerate Data Flow by replacing Series data mapping with parallel data flow With data quality checks

Field Agent Training Kit agro-enterprise course for field agent What is the market chain? Supply and demand

Main Technology Input devices

Minimum Data Set (MDS) Form 1. Farmer Group Registration…… ……………………. . Form 4. Production Profile Rains Date planted, seed type Date weeded Date fertilized Date harvested # bags kept, # bags sold Form 2. Biz Plan ……………………… …. . Form 5. Visit Log Date Duration Purpose Outcome Form 3. Profitability calculator GM…………………. . Form 6. Baseline Sentinel Impact Δ Income Δ Assets Δ Food security Δ Trading relations Δ Income options Δ Service access First Phase is to complete the first three forms

MDS Registration Page

Gross Margin Analysis 8 -9 bags / acres Production 7. 5 100 bags / acre Calculation based on Input costs Materials Tools Hoes Panga Hybrid seed Bags Totals Labour plowing 1 st plowing 2 nd Sowing Weeding 1 st Weeding 2 nd Harvest Totals Exchange rate 2, 000 1 acre Quantity Type Unit costs 5 Hoes 3 Panga 10 kg 8 bags 3000 2000 3000 600 15, 000 6, 000 30, 000 4, 800 55, 800 7. 5 hired 2 hired 7. 5 hired 4 hired 4000 4000 30, 000 20, 000 8, 000 30, 000 20, 000 16, 000 124, 000 Total costs Sales Gross income Total 179, 800 1000 kg 250, 000 70, 200

MDS Profitability calculator

MDS Business Planner Key Activities Key Partners Customer relations Customer segments Value proposition Key Resources Channels Cost Structure Revenue

MDS Business Planner

Rethinking - M&E What do we need to measure to support 100 enterprises? Are we on track? Year 1 Frequent Data flow Year 2 Year 3 M&E systems Year 4 Year 5

Architecture Data Air Adobe Database 1 Reports • Field Agent • Supervisor • Program manager • Country • Global May 31 st Air Adobe Database 2 August 31 st iforms Database 2 August 31 st

Pilot testing Timeline Feb 2011 Launch 1. May 2011 Launch 2. Jan 2012 Version 2. 0 MDS ICT 4 D India / Phil SARO 5 countries AFG GMCR ICT 4 D CRS focused and supported Amazon cloud hosted Saa. S with partner

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 • •