‟Although it was initially intended to be used as an M&E and data management tool just for the MERLA department at the Light for the World headquarters in Vienna, ActivityInfo soon became a tool of choice for many country offices which started creating databases in the platform to manage data related to daily reporting. As country offices can independently create databases and work on them, the use of the platform expanded from global reporting to monitoring activities within countries. Additionally, we managed to use ActivityInfo for monitoring of qualitative outcomes of systems change activities.”
“Since we were using Access databases and there is no actual mobile collection interface for Access databases, we had to connect so many different platforms such as Google sheets, Kobo, ODK and that was complicated. For some projects, it worked quite well but for other projects, a lot of time was needed to keep a lid on all the different problems of the 5 things we're trying to integrate at once. We got so busy with that so we couldn’t do other things that we wanted.”












