Sigmah: from collection to analysis of NGO projects information

November 30, 2011 - 09:58 -- osarrat
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  • Sigmah project and its users
    • Sigmah is open source software for integrated project management within humanitarian NGOs. Available in 3 langues (English, French, Spanish) version 1.0 released last June is currently in adoption by 8 NGOs like Médecins du Monde or Handicap International.
    • On forums of the project, users in Haiti, France, Pakistan or Afghanistan report new needs of features every week because project is still young, and the roadmap of the project keeps growing.
  • From data collection to information analysis for more lessons-learning
    • So far, version 1.0 is good for information collection and sharing. Users are happy but frustrated to not be able yet to analyze all this information collected. And with stronger capacity of analysis of all information collected, humanitarian workers will be able to more easily learn lessons out of their experiences and improve that wat the quality of their work.

 

 

Example: 

There are several new information analysis features which are have been requested by users. The 3 main ones by order of increasing complexity are:

  1. 0000388: Export to Excel
  2. 0000389: Organizational Unit aggregation field
  3. 0000213: Custom exports

 

 

 

User Stories: 

Video of the future developments planned at the time of Sigmah launch conference in June 2011 (original French version)

Constraints: 

Sigmah project is developed in Java using Google Web Toolkit and ExtJS Javascript library.

Similar Projects and Resources: 

As many open-source project, the good way to start your way in the project is to use the following resources more or less in the given order :

  1. Take a look at the Sigmah User Guide to have a better idea of what the software is about, and at the demo to know how it looks like.
  2. Go through the draft Contributor Guide on the forge wiki of the project to better understand how the project id technically set up, and how you can concretely work on it.
  3. Install your own development environment and download your copy of the source code by following this procedure (on the Contributor Guide as well).
  4. If ready to dive, send an "hello world!" on sigmah-dev mailing list to start collaborating with other developers !
Next Steps and Sustainability: 

Sigmah is already in adoption by real users, and new organisations are showing up to start to adopt it.

The key of the sustainability of the Sigmah project is the many partnerships on which the project it is built (see the Donors & economic model page of the Sigmah website for more information).

Qualitative Impact: 
By easing the process of analyzing information collected on projects, humanitarian NGOs will be able to better prepare their project and improve the way they reply to the needs of people. They will also be more efficient in the preparation of their work, with more time spend on building lessons out of their data than on manipulating and collecting it.
Quantitative Impact: 
The 10 NGOs partner of the project have project in 75 countries around the world in all major crises (Haiti, Libya, Ivory Coast, Afghanistan, ...), many forgotten crises (Mongolia, Central African Republic, ...) as well as in development settings (India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, ...).
Problem Definition Category: 
Disaster Resiliency
Event: 
Belgium
RHoK Global December 2011

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