Posts from the ‘About Aid’ Category

Digital Impressions – The Philippines Deployment

Staff from Oxfam in the Philippines recently received training and support on the use of the LMMS system in their operations, in part thanks to CIDA (see this link). New people on the LMMS team, like Paul Milwa (actually Paul’s been involved with LMMS for a while) and Romi Ryos del Sol (recently trained in KL), were there on the behalf of WVI/LMMS to lead the trainings and to support our Oxfam colleagues, and while the software development team on this occasion did not have an opportunity to witness the preparations leading up to Oxfam’s deployment of LMMS, we did however receive a digital production of the event that you can find below!

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Sex and Age Matter

A study published by the Feinstein International Center (see here for the report and PPTs) reiterates the critical importance of gathering data for better decision-making, better responses and for empowering agencies to live up to standards of impartiality. The findings suggest that  ‘Sex and Age Disaggregated Data’ (SADD) are vital to deliver improved responses based on the varying needs of women and men, the elderly and the young. However the research indicates that none of the lead agencies  collected such data properly nor did they analyze the information and use that knowledge for better programming!

Learn how LMMS RSA 3.0.0 to be be released very soon, addresses such issues directly by presenting detailed profile information disaggregated by gender, age and vulnerabilities!

People attending the London LMMS training event, will get a sneak peek of the ability to generate these reports at a click of a button. If you are interested to learn more, just me directly or connect with us via the blog contact form!