Participatory Processes Tool

This tool provides a platform to digitalize participatory processeses or any other process that requires interaction with stakeholders. The platform provides features that allow users to design instruments, commonly called Forms. The forms are the means through which data is captured. A Form contains what fields are stored for your data, and how they behave with respect to each other. It contains information about how your data is named.

A Field can also be referred to as a variable or column. A field represents an attribute of the form. For instance when collecting data about a household, several fields can be defined such as Household Head Name, Household Size etc

Architecture

  • The platform is composed of a Frontend and the Backend

  • The backend provides functionalities to users to enable them design participatory processes. It is also acts a repository for data and reports

  • The frontend is an application that is installable on mobile devices. The frontend consumes configurations defined on the backend and renders participatory instruments on user devices thus allowing data capture using devices. This is an application that is installable on mobile devices and provides interaction with the backend. The frontend is powered by the backend meaning the backend needs to be up and running for the frontend to function properly.

Backend

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This tool contains 3 main modules

1. Participatory Process Designer

  • This module enables users to design participatory processes and the respective instruments supporting those processes

  • Users also assign permissions to users who are authorized to view, capture or analyze data against a specific instrument

  • Instruments created are referred to as Engagement Forms

  • Users can also create Engagement Templates that outline the specific instruments to be deployed to an Engagement that uses that Engagement Template

2. Technical Data Module

  • This module deals with ingestion of various technical data points and different analyses that can be performed against the data points. Examples of technical data can be County Statistics, Shape files and raster layers for geographic data

  • Once a technical analysis has been defined, the same analysis will be available to the end users

3. Dashboard and Reporting

  • This module is responsible for providing the means to generate analysis, reports and dashboards against data collected using Engagement Forms

Frontend

This is the tool that end users interact with for data capture for the engagement processes. The frontend is fully reliant on the backend for optimal operation. The frontend is able to operate in offline mode meaning data can be collected in situations of poor or no network connectivity.