Grant Managers currently have independent locally developed tracking sheets (excel and access) which they use to track implementation against outputs. A relatively minor change to the system would facilitate the creation of a view of the MERIT data that would save significant time and effort for Grant Managers and would eliminate the need for them to operate shadow systems. It would also be of value to grantees in tracking the implementation of outputs against contracted outputs on a stage-by-stage basis.
This would require planned (target) outputs to be set on an activity-by-activity basis rather than at the whole project level as is currently that case. Changing this would require consultation with stakeholders.
The new view would then be a matrix of activities (with target outputs) on the Y-axis vs. a stage-based timeline on the X-axis, showing the target and implemented values within each stage - eg. using progress bars similar to those in the project dashboard. An aggregated stage-based summary by activity type may also be relevant where there is more than one activity of the same type within a stage.
migrated from: https://code.google.com/p/ala/issues/detail?id=495 date: Thu Dec 19 19:15:23 2013 author: CoolDa...@gmail.com
Grant Managers currently have independent locally developed tracking sheets (excel and access) which they use to track implementation against outputs. A relatively minor change to the system would facilitate the creation of a view of the MERIT data that would save significant time and effort for Grant Managers and would eliminate the need for them to operate shadow systems. It would also be of value to grantees in tracking the implementation of outputs against contracted outputs on a stage-by-stage basis.
This would require planned (target) outputs to be set on an activity-by-activity basis rather than at the whole project level as is currently that case. Changing this would require consultation with stakeholders.
The new view would then be a matrix of activities (with target outputs) on the Y-axis vs. a stage-based timeline on the X-axis, showing the target and implemented values within each stage - eg. using progress bars similar to those in the project dashboard. An aggregated stage-based summary by activity type may also be relevant where there is more than one activity of the same type within a stage.