VSL is a part of the Social Enterprise Education Project (SEEP) of Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB), and supported by the British Council of India. SDRC developed the mobile app (called Virtual Knowledge Center) under this venture which provides start up support to the social enterprises/entrepreneurs by providing information free of cost. SDRC is also hosting and providing maintenance against the VKC app post deployment for a year.
Facilitated training programs on data analysis through DevInfo at state level (2 training programmes) and in 3 districts of Odisha viz. Koraput, Ganjam and Sundargarh (total 3 training programmes), organized by the DPMUs of the concerned districts. The purpose is to build state and district capacity in data management, data analysis and data dissemination for evidence based decision making using Devin software.
The project aimed to build the capacities of UNICEF partners in Malaysia in User and Database Administration application of DevInfo and providing technical support for deployment of DevInfo Version 7.0.
Supported UNICEF, Chhattisgarh in training two batches of district facilitators in using DevInfo database system for district level planning and monitoring.
Facilitated a two day training course on participatory monitoring of Trócaire governance programme. Participants included Trócaire programme officers from Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Oriented officials of Jharkhand Space Application Centre and Planning Department about the DevInfo technology and adapted to the context of Jharkhand. Moderated the meeting as a technical expert cum national resource person of DevInfo to demonstrate the utility to Govt. counterparts. Developed a detailed project report covering plan of action referring customization of DevInfo India into DevInfo Jharkhand, possible indicators, including capacity building module for basic (one day) and advance (three days) training.
Supported TISS in training two batches of district facilitators in using DevInfo database system for district level planning and monitoring.
Instructional Designing for training of census enumerators for 2011 Census and National Population Register. For this activity, we provided high quality design and content creation support to create visually appealing presentations suitable for adult learning situations.
Supported Government of Rajasthan in digitization of administrative boundaries down to the block level. The project will enable creation of a common database on health indicators and facilitate evidence based decision making and results based management.
Issue
The Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Chhattisgarh, wanted to train its staff on DevInfo so that they are able to generate data products using DevInfo. They also needed to analyse the CRVS data for their own programme monitoring.
Intervention
The staff from Directorate of Economics and Statistics at different levels were trained on the following:
- Creating database using CRVS data
- Designing and generating factsheets using DevInfo profile feature.
Outcome
- Factsheets on CRVS data for each district and the state of Chhattisgarh
- Staff trained on creating DevInfo database and generating profiles.
