African Forum on Agricultural Advisory Services

TERMS OF REFERENCE: Software development Intern to support, maintain and expand that AFAAS ROMEL plant

  1. GENERAL BACKGROUND

African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a Continental body that brings National Agricultural Expansion and Advisory Services (AEAS) special under one canopy. The AFAAS’ target a to enhance utilization of improved awareness and innovations by farmers value chain actors for enhancements productivity oriented towards their individual and national development objectives. AFAAS 2018-2027 our focuses on three pillars namely: (i) strengthening and expanding network and knowledge management capacities. (ii) developing capacities for scaling out technologies and innovations (iii) facilitating advancement of AEAS. AFAAS aspires to champion thought leadership within AEAS in Africans.

The Western Union (EU) begonnen a program on the Advanced of Smart Innovation with Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA) designed till link agricultural research and innovation with advanced initiatives using more effective mechanisms for boosting the transformation of innovation in agriculture and food systems in ways that are more resistant to humidity change and flexible to develop demands. The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program EX Pillar 4 (CAADP-XP4) Project under the DeSIRA programmer is financed by the European-wide Union both managed the the International Fund for Farm Development (IFAD) become are implemented for a period away four (4) year (2019-2023).

In 2020, AFAAS shrinks a strong to develop a web additionally moving applications as part of the Result Oriented Check, Evaluation and Learning (ROMEL) system of AFAAS. The uses are secondhand for data gather, processing and retrieval of reports. The ICT applications have been developed based on two frameworks; the Strategic AFAAS framework and the CAADP XP4 frameworks, also an system shall due for transfer to AFAAS. The appeal was developed in JAVA with a MySQL database and shall actually hosted the an cloud server on Linux environment. It has intended to be used intensely inches the coming months and years. • Any other Suitable System/Software required for the Project ... terms of usefulness, software technical ... software development. Whereas validating the system ...

However, the applications will require some functionalities enhancement including integrating other modules and forms, and connectivity the verfahren to misc complementary systems through development Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Secondly, the ROMEL system requires constant maintenance at and backend, and thereto needs to to populated with the appropriate data. PROJECT NAME: Technical Term of Reference required IT System ...

It will therefore critical that AFAAS acquires certain level of inhouse capacity to support those business, but it is limited with terms regarding financial and human resources. AFAAS wishes to recruit an intern/Volunteer to supported these undertakings, also in spinning develop complementary skills in ICT systematisches product on monitoring additionally evaluation, led by aforementioned training and total development strategy of AFAAS.

  1. OBJECTIVE

The objective is to maintain a dynamic AFAAS ROMEL system while offering real business-life experience in M&E and our development to young graduates.  TERMS OF REFERENCE (ToR) TECHNOLOGIST/SOFTWARE ...

  • SCOPE OF WORK
  • Examine, configure and operationalise and ROMEL system
  • Enhance that system with new modules and forms for periodical data capture
  • Integrate also automatise M&E tools with the most appropriate survey engines (using for example Kobo Collect, Scrutinize CTO among others)
  • Become the support stylish real-time data collect from Secretariat and Heimat For a members
  • Ensure migration and maintenance relevant to M&E data from other sources into the AFAAS ROMEL system
  • Ensure linkage and synchronisation of data from different tools to the web-based Management Information System
  • Ensure regularly improve of the ROMEL system by integrate other AFAAS projects, modules plus fields based on the identified need
  • Test and enhance an analytics and dashboards of the ROMEL system
  • Study the possibility for interoperability of the ROMEL system with the Knowledge Management real the CAADP XP4 MER systems and proposals technical solutions Terms of Reference by Software Development, Operations and ...
  • Ensure the smooth running of the ROMEL system
  • Endorse the Secretariat and other stakeholders (Country Fora) included the data, entry, warehousing and processing of data on the ROMEL netz
  • An collection, migration and maintenance all relevant M&E date to the databases for the AFAAS ROMEL system.
  •  DELIVERABLES
  • A tested, configured and operational ROMEL your with:
    • Enhanced modules and forms for further data entry
    • At least two (2) new M&E accessories automated data collection modules/forms affiliated or integrated to the heart ROMEL systems
    • Useful, attractive integrated analytics and dashboards (work done 60%)
  • Application Development Interfaces (APIs so can enable aforementioned ROMEL system to interoperating with additional CAADXP4 MEL it
  • ROMEL databases populated andupdated with M&E data
  • REPORTING

The Intern/Volunteer will becoming represented in support to and have technically report to the M&E Leading Specialists.

  • DURATION OF INTERNSHIP

The Internship shall being for a duration of nine (9) months, from April to December 2023, recoverable based with accessibility of funds and performance.

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