In January, Islamic Relief Worldwide launched a digitalised resolution to assist nation workplace employees handle undertaking data and MEAL which can change how we work for the higher.
Our Global Programme Impact & MEAL System (GPMS) is now stay all through 27 nations, marking a vital second in organisation-wide collaboration.
The system permits colleagues within the subject to extra simply report undertaking updates, handle data and observe undertaking lifecycles. The info is then instantly obtainable to different Islamic Relief employees around the globe, lowering admin and releasing up time to extra immediately help the communities we serve.
The design, growth and launch of this world system has been the fruits of a three-year undertaking involving stakeholders in any respect ranges of Islamic Relief in a really collaborative method.
Throughout all of it, our overarching anchor was to make sure the brand new system was designed from the bottom up – BY and FOR our colleagues on the bottom, before everything.
We are delighted with the ultimate end result. The GPMS facilitates:
- undertaking administration, threat/situation and supply/exercise monitoring, together with variety of folks reached
- offline and on-line longitudinal (case administration) data assortment
- MEAL (monitoring, analysis, accountability and studying) exercise monitoring (for instance, indicators and studying)
- constant data and knowledge with the flexibleness to satisfy totally different nation contexts and desires
- versatile and configurable disaggregated and aggregated data evaluation and reporting to assist inform choice making
- a number of languages – initially English, French and Arabic
- integration with different platforms, comparable to monetary techniques, to keep away from duplication and maximise data visibility.
Years of collaboration – and that is solely the start
The GPMS is constructed on the ActivityInfo platform. We selected ExerciseInfo after reviewing round 30 totally different platforms in opposition to our necessities record and resolution matrix, taking into consideration current inside options in addition to exterior ones.
We had been extraordinarily difficult in our necessities as a result of we knew that we would have liked a world system and one which functioned independently in 27 nations, whereas nonetheless, in fact, being linked. The complete ExerciseInfo workforce have been completely wonderful – we couldn’t have requested for higher help from day one. It was by no means in regards to the sale for them; every time there was one thing that “wasn’t possible” they all the time discovered another resolution. This is actual partnership within the truest sense of the phrase. It has by no means faltered, and right here we’re nonetheless singing their praises three years in. They have been an integral a part of our design and implementation journey.
The launch of the GPMS is just the start. We have plenty of further performance deliberate for the longer term, not solely to assist us within the administration and reporting of our undertaking and MEAL data and knowledge, but additionally to help us to constantly enhance the standard and accountability of our interventions to the folks we serve.
This undertaking wouldn’t have been doable with out the unwavering help, dedication and dedication of our nation and native workplace employees around the globe. They have been there at each step – taking part within the preliminary design and requirement workshops, testing the system by way of the pilot stage, taking part in regional orientation workshops and committing to the onboarding and launch course of.
I might additionally prefer to acknowledge the onerous work of my fantastic colleagues within the GPMS Project Team – Juwairiyah Khurram, Assem Kassim, Muhammad Sadiq Rohei and Ganesh Bahadur Thapa – it’s been inspiring working with you all to ship this ground-breaking initiative for Islamic Relief. And in fact, not least, Islamic Relief’s senior administration workforce for his or her unwavering help, and dedication to drive this undertaking by way of. From the underside proper to the very prime, this actually has been a collaborative effort.
The scope of what techniques like this could obtain for our organisation and the communities we serve is really inspiring, and we hope that is solely the beginning of our digitalisation journey at Islamic Relief.
