1. PoiMapper in Plan
Raša Sekulović - Regional Adviser, Child Rights and Protection Plan Asia Regional Office

2. What is Plan?
Founded over 75 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children’s development organisations in the world. We work in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty.
no religious affiliations
no political affiliations
no governmental affiliations

3. Fundraising Country Offices
What do we do in Asia?
In Asia, Plan works at the grassroots level to implement child-centred programmes in 14 countries.
Country Programs
Fundraising Country Offices

4. What is PoiMapper?
PoiMapper is a solution to replace pen&paper based monitoring for more reliable, accurate and up-to-date programme field data collection.
PoiMapper allows field workers to collect data with mobile phones or tablets and share the information near real time for organisations use for decision making and monitoring.
Data can be displayed in a visual form on a map, tables, charts and exported to e.g. excel, word and pdf formats.

5. User groups for PoiMapper
Field staff
Collect data and upload to online server near real time
Country/Programme Admin
Manages the users and permissions to access the system
Manages user groups and forms for programmes/activities
Reviewers
Reporting, analyses
M&E staff & programme managers in Program Units (PUs), Country Offices (COs) and National Offices (NOs), donors, partners

6. Online tools for setting up
Admin users set up the system
Admin tool: Manage users, user groups and forms
Form builder: Create forms online
Mobile store: Install mobile phone via Google Play

7. Data Collection
PoiMapper can be used to collect any form or type of data including location and images.
Forms can be easily uploaded to the phone and filled offline before sending them to the server.
Data can also be downloaded to the phone for updating purposes resulting in a coherent history track of the data.

8. Data collection Any field staff can learn to
collect data - mobile phone
application is simple to use and
does not require special skills.
Training of field staff will
take ~2-3 days depending on the
complexity of the data collection activities.
Training of admin users will
take ~7 days. Admin users will
manage the users, user groups,
forms and local support.

9. Data access and visualization
Data can be reviewed online and visualized on map or table formats.
Data can be edited via online platform, if needed.

10. Data export Data can be exported from online portal to
Excel, CVS, KML, SPSS, Word, pdf

11. Data reports Reports can be generated from the data into
Charts and tables

12. Plan support structure
Support structure includes
Plan NO: Coordination of support functions and partnership management with the solution provider
Plan CO/RO ”Champion” staff: support in the field
Pajat solution: Technical implementation, improvements and further development of the solution

13. Plan support functions
Support functions include:
License management and partnership with the solution provider
Technical support and troubleshooting (online, onsite)
Online trainings
Onsite trainings
Linkage to core PoiMapper staff in the organisation
Coordinating further development of the solution based on the feedback from different countries/programs
Support in grants/proposals to integrate PoiMapper in M&E or program work

14. PoiMapper in Plan – How did we get here?
In June 2013 Plan Finland signed the PoiMapper globally usable license agreement to cut the costs, simplify the uptake & license agreements and systematise the data structures.
 More than 25 COs have shown interest in using PoiMapper, and more are coming!
By 2013 several countries were using PoiMapper in a variety of fields including health, ECCD, WASH, disasters etc.
Users now: Kenya, Thailand, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Nepal, Philippines, Timor Leste, Colombia, Cameroon among others.
First Pilot in Kenya Plan Kenya mapped water points, households, hospitals and schools. Evaluation of PoiMapper was encouraging.
In 2011 Plan Thailand started using PoiMapper in Tuberculosis monitoring winning also the Global Award in 2012.
Development started in 2009 in collaboration w Plan Finland, Plan Kenya and company Pajat.

15. List of current programmes (does not include all as the tool is spreading fast):
Thailand: Tuberculosis mapping
Bolivia: ECCD nutrition and community information
Nepal: WASH, Baselines, Scholarship, PPIs
Bangladesh: Sponsorship data pilot
Cameroon: School Data
Indonesia: Child Trafficking
Burkina Faso: School data, WASH, ECCD, Baselines, Emergency etc.
Kenya: Vurugumapper, WASH baseline
Philippines: Emergency RNA and distribution
East Timor: Emergencies, ECCD etc.
Other countries using the tool: Colombia, Pakistan, Sudan, India
Countries starting/testing the solution in 2014: Laos, Mali, Benin, Haiti, Peru, El Salvador, Brazil, China, Mozambique, Zambia
Several NOs interested to include in new grants and current programs.
4/21/20174/21/2017

16. How to use Poimapper in programmes:
Monitoring
Program specific indicators
NO common indicators (logframe indicators)
Regional-wide indicators
Other possibilities
Baselines
Studies with field data collection/interviews

17. Things to consider… Who collects the data in the field?
Plan staff?
Volunteers?
Teachers, Social workers etc?
Who trains new users?
How to link IT, Programmes and M&E staff together?
How can you best utilize the tools in the field for more services? Transfer other information, utilize in trainings by showing videos etc.
What is the infrastructure in the field?
Electricity, network coverage

18. THANK YOU…
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