The African Development Bank (AfDB) has extended membership of a digital data supervision system known as the remote appraisal supervision, monitoring and evaluation (RASME) project to Mozambique
Mozambique’s deputy minister of economy and finance Carla Alexandra Louveira, and the AfDB’s country manager Cesar Mba Abogo officially launched the initiative on 7 March, 2022.
With this, Mozambique is now the sixth African country to benefit from the tool which enhances project-related data collection in remote areas.
RASME is a partnership of the AfDB and the World Bank’s Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision and KoBoToolbox teams. The digital data gathering suite of tools being used for the RASME project is based on the KoBoToolbox platform, an open-source ICT solution developed by researchers affiliated with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
According to deputy minister Louveira, “The operationalisation of RASME will strengthen the oversight and monitoring capacity of project implementation and support a more effective decision-making process.”
RASME, based on the open-source KoBoToolbox platform developed by researchers affiliated with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, is designed for both online or offline use in remote areas with limited telecommunications infrastructure. The project will strengthen data collection in often inaccessible or remote areas, including those with security and logistical challenges to bolster monitoring and evaluation of the Bank’s development projects. All data is stored on secured servers.
The deployment of RASME is driven by the AfDB's Corporate IT department (CHIS) in partnership with the World Bank’s Geo-Enabling initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS) Team – fragility, conflict and violence (FCV), and KoBoToolbox foundation.
