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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
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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)
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)
The Case For Change • Significant delays verifying & processing beneficiaries and in distributing assets • Reliance on paper-based system: slow & error-prone • Improve on accountability • Automated processes do not extend to the “Last Mile” • Leveraging greater interagency collaboration
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: • Beneficiary data management • Commodity distribution • Reporting processes
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
LMMS Delivers Aid + Results • Mobile technology solutions can work in humanitarian contexts and can deliver significant benefits to business units and clients alike • Reduced time and cost • Improved data quality • Enhanced service delivery
Thanks! • Questions? • Clarifications?
Contact Information • Jay NarhanLMMS Program Coordinator, WVCjay_narhan@worldvision.ca • ThabaniMaphosa Global Director – FPMG thabani_maphosa@wvi.org • Otto FarkasDirector, HEA-RDCI, WVCotto_farkas@worldvision.ca • Richard Lankas Field Support & Developer, FPMG richard_lankas@wvi.org • Ben TshinLMMS Program Officer, WVCben_tshin@worldvision.ca