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Last Mile Mobile Solutions:Innovations in Humanitarian
InterventionsPresented 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 & error-
prone• 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 managemento Commodity distributiono 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 alikeoReduced time and costo Improved data qualityo Enhanced service delivery
Slide 9
Thanks!• Questions?
• Clarifications?
Slide 10
Contact Information Jay Narhan
LMMS Program Coordinator, WVCjay_narhan@worldvision.ca
Thabani MaphosaGlobal Director – FPMGthabani_maphosa@wvi.org
Otto FarkasDirector, HEA-RDCI, WVCotto_farkas@worldvision.ca
Richard LankasField Support & Developer, FPMGrichard_lankas@wvi.org
Ben TshinLMMS Program Officer, WVCben_tshin@worldvision.ca Slide 11
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