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MERIT - Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting & Integration Tool
Challenges:
NPOKI is a collaboration of international health organizations. The members are at the forefront of providing access to safe and affordable health services globally, including a focused response to the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Most foundation and government-funded health projects worldwide report back using various forms and data aggregation tools measuring work done against a set of indicators of success. Data is aggregated at several levels. There is a well-recognized need for a managed, accessible, central indicator tracking system that would enable a project team to enter and track its indicator data, along with their targets and actual outcomes.
NPOKI has designed and developed a working prototype web-based indicator tracking system, the Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting & Integration Tool, appropriate for all of our members and in-country partners. It allows project teams to establish project/program indicators capable of meeting a variety of criteria:
- Indicators that work within one or multiple frameworks.
- Indicators that capture different levels of detail.
- Indicators that can be matched to various collection schedules.
The key components of MERIT include (or will include):
- M&E Results Framework
- Comprehensive Indicator Pool and Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP)
- Easy data input and robust analysis platform
- Web-based, using tested, secure development platform (dotNET)
- SharePoint and low resource ready
- Flexible dimension manager
- 3D Matrix
- Offline functionality
- Multi-Audience Dashboards
- Flexible Reporting engine
- OpenAPI
- Installation Routine
- Technical Documentation
- User Documentation
MERIT I finished its beta testing in November 2008. It is currently being used by four international health organizations in various locations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America:
Specifications for MERIT II, including its mobile phone integration, are currently being developed.
Interesting project!
(Columbia University Mobile Technology Team)
Hi! Your project seems very interesting and with great potential. Our team has a project which goes in the same direction -- monitoring nutrition indicators. I think we can definitely learn from each other. A next step that would be interesting is to be able to consilidate the indicators across borders.
Rapid data input
Great idea, and definitely useful for a range of health-related programs that crunch field-driven data.
In terms of mobile support: the dashboard looks relatively complex, and might not lend itself to easy and rapid usage in the field. Is the mobile version geared for simpler, rapid "point-of-sale"-style data input, with the option to add more detail when back at headquarters?