WHY A DATA AND INFORMATION MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM (DIMES)?

“Across the world, we know how challenging it can be for organizations to manage multiple projects, meet donor and stakeholder requirements, and still stay focused on achieving impact. In some cases, organizations rely on outdated tools for tracking impact and performance”. Prof. Aoko J

System Overview

That’s why we are developing powerful Data and Information Monitoring & Evaluation Systems (DIMES) designed to help organizations like yours to track key performance indicators, outcomes, measure effectiveness, track financial expenditure against activities and report with confidence.

With DIMES you can:
✅ Monitor progress of several in real-time across different regions and countries
✅ Visualize key indicators through integrated and customizable dashboards
✅ Automate data collection using inbuilt Form management modules
✅ Improve decision-making with data-driven insights across project outcomes, outputs and financial analysis
✅ Ensure compliance with donor and stakeholder requirements
✅ Manage project reports through inbuilt user-based upload, review and approval architecture

System Models

Whether you’re managing community development projects, tracking policy implementation, or evaluating program effectiveness, DIMES adapts to your workflow — not the other way around.

We provide both;

i) Self-service model (software-as-a-service), where you can sign up, set up your projects, and start tracking results — all within a single day.
ii) Custom-built (organization-built), where we design and develop a system customized to your organization goals and needs.

Schedule a quick demo and discover how systems like DIMES can streamline your entire M&E process.

Let us help you turn data into action — and impact into evidence.

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

Multi-Project Management

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Tracker

Survey Management

Budget Tracker

Data Integration

Reports and Media

Maps and Spatial Analytics

Feedback and Complaints

Multi-Project Management: The system provides a centralized platform that helps an organization to create, plan, implement, monitor, and report on multiple projects in parallel, while keeping everything aligned with organizational strategy. The system is dynamic to allow updating of each project’s outputs and activities during the course of implementation.

KPI Tracker: Helps to monitor individual project’s Key Performance Indicators that show whether your organization is meeting its goals. Instead of looking at every single piece of data, you focus on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) — the numbers that actually reflect success and Impact.

Form Management: The system provides for creating, digitizing and managing data collection (forms, questionnaires, checklists, surveys), allowing for better oversight, storage, retrieval, and sharing of data across different departments. It ensures that reliable, consistent, and timely data is collected for monitoring indicators and evaluating program performance. The system allows creation of forms taking into account different data types including gps coordinates, photos, Likert scales, numbers, open ended questions, etc.

Budget Tracker: It helps to monitor how financial resources are being allocated and spent in relation to program activities, outputs, and outcomes. It helps link resources (inputs) to results, making sure funds are used efficiently, transparently, and in alignment with project objectives.

Data Integration: The system provides for linkage and integration with existing data collection platforms to allow cross-platform navigation and access to data using API’s. The systems will integrate data from these common platforms that organizations deploy including: Kobo collect toolbox, Google docs, Ona.io, SurveyCTO, Commcare, etc. This ensures any data whether structured or unstructured that is existing within organization archives can be easily digitized and stored in the system for retrieval.

Media: Provision for uploading success stories in audio, video, or image formats.

Reports: Provision for uploading reports with integrated review and approval frameworks across the project administration and user levels. The custom built approval framework allows review and approval of reports from junior to mid-level to senior level roles prior to publishing.

Maps: Visualize data geographically so that stakeholders can understand where activities are happening, where beneficiaries are located, and how results vary across locations.

Feedback and Complaints: The system deploys FCRM to consistently incorporate input from all stakeholders Into decision-making processes that impact the safety, lives, and livelihoods of the project participants. It also provides for anonymous feedback and complaints.

SYSTEM DEMO

SAMPLE SPATIAL MAPS