What is CMS 2?
PURPOSE: to enable an assessment of trends.What has changed at the household level? And what has happened (both project and non project events) that may have contributed to changes? This is a tool that is being rolled out across the entire shiree portfolio. The essential purpose is to produce a frequently updated and intensely investigatable database of all shiree beneficiary households (BHHs) according to a common format. The baseline is the database of household profiles (CMS1) compiled for all BHHs. From this baseline the monthly snapshot allows tracking of changes in household livelihoods and of events (including project interventions) capable of impacting these livelihoods.
The monthly snapshot will also allow the identification of trends and correlations across any chosen sub set of the entire shiree household profile cutting across individual NGO projects (e.g all widows, all urban, all in CHT etc). This process of identifying interesting or significant trends and correlations will feed and inform the research agenda. CMS2 uses an innovative mobile phone technology to collect data with the survey being delivered by NGO field staff during their normal round of BHH visits. The survey is a short and simple tool which focuses on a beneficiary self assessment of change using a multiple choice format supplemented by voice recording.
What can I see?
CMS2 is currently undergoing its second pilot. The first pilot took place in January-February 2011, and covered more than 2800 households. While this tool is currently undergoing a process of methodological development, some particularly interesting findings from the pilot are presented here.
Shiree welcomes feedback on CMS2 or any other element of the change monitoring system please, contact cmsfeedback@shiree.org
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Workshop Report — Transforming NGO Management: Real time Information for Decision Making
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