Getting Started with ActivityInfo - Designing your first database

The “Getting Started with ActivityInfo” webinars is a series of sessions addressed to new and older users of ActivityInfo who wish to get introduced to the platform or refresh their memory on key functionalities available. In addition to these sessions, we will be offering open office hours during which we can address specific aspects of the platform.

During this session, we look at the steps for creating a database in ActivityInfo. We discuss key principles to keep in mind and we explore how we can design forms and create flexible structures in the platform to facilitate data collection and analysis for our colleagues and partner organizations. We also explore structures that match different types of needs such as global Monitoring and Evaluation, multi-partner reporting, beneficiary progress reporting and more.

In summary, we explore:

• The principles behind what makes a good database
• Which ActivityInfo features enable you to create an effective database
• A practical, step-by-step approach to creating databases in ActivityInfo
• How to structure databases, design forms and configure user roles in ActivityInfo
• Examples of databases across various use cases