Last Mile Mobile Solutions Innovations in Humanitarian Interventions

Last Mile Mobile Solutions: Innovations in Humanitarian Interventions Presented By: Richard Lankas World Vision International - FPMG

Introduction • Food aid: the most dominant form of humanitarian action in emergencies • Greater pressure for accountability: official public donors, private donors and beneficiaries • Efforts to introduce innovative practices (ie: cash programming) are limited by lack of suitable systems (ie: cash delivery systems) Slide 2

Field Realities Slide 3

Current Practices • Field operations: manually intensive • Challenges in capturing data (missing data, legibility, validity) • Reporting: Failure/limits to leverage data for timely & detailed analysis • Difficulties in sharing & integrating data (within and between organizations) Slide 4

The Case For Change • Significant delays verifying & processing beneficiaries and in distributing assets • Reliance on paper-based system: slow & errorprone • Improve on accountability • Automated processes do not extend to the “Last Mile” • Leveraging greater interagency collaboration Slide 5

What is LMMS? • Mobile technology solution • At the “last mile” of humanitarian programming: between NGOs and end-beneficiaries • Increases the effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in: o Beneficiary data management o Commodity distribution o Reporting processes Slide 6

What’s Changed? • All data is collected once in digital format on mobile devices • Handle new data types - pictures, geo-data, SMS • Photo verification • Automated processes - calculations of rations due, tracking incoming/outgoing stock • Real/Near-real time updates • Capacity to run queries and generate reports immediately Slide 7

LMMS Deployments Slide 8

LMMS Delivers Aid + Results • Mobile technology solutions can work in humanitarian contexts and can deliver significant benefits to business units and clients alike o Reduced time and cost o Improved data quality o Enhanced service delivery Slide 9

Thanks! • Questions? • Clarifications? Slide 10

Contact Information § Jay Narhan LMMS Program Coordinator, WVC jay_narhan@worldvision. ca § Thabani Maphosa Global Director – FPMG thabani_maphosa@wvi. org § Otto Farkas Director, HEA-RDCI, WVC otto_farkas@worldvision. ca § Richard Lankas Field Support & Developer, FPMG richard_lankas@wvi. org § Ben Tshin LMMS Program Officer, WVC ben_tshin@worldvision. ca Slide 11