Some Directors and Managers of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority NaFAA and the Ministry of Agriculture are currently attending a weeklong International Training Course in Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing CAPI for Agricultural Surveys.
The CAPI training which is being sponsored by the African Development Bank and got under Monday July 23, 2018 at NaFAA Mesurado Pier on Bushrod Island, according to a press release from the NaFAA/.
The International Training Course in Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing or CAPI is intended to secure real time data submission, capture GIS data, Collect data offline/offgrid in remote areas, integrate synchronize data into database system, for drastic reduction in the cost of data collection and collation, timely reporting, receiving real-time reporting on web and user-friendly reporting dashboards.
Courses offered during the weeklong course include overview training and survey solutions, getting started with the questionnaire designer and install tester, register for questionnaire designer and download and install tester, basic designer, hands-on: Master the Basic, Intermediate Survey Design Skills, and overview of the advanced features.
Other Courses expected to be offered in the one week include Intermediate Survey Designed Skills-1, Hands-on: Mastering the Intermediate Survey design, Basic Validation and Enablement Conditions, Basic Case management with Administration, Headquarters, and Supervisors, and Data Export and Tablet Management.
Declaring the CAPI training officially open Monday, the Deputy Director General for Technical Services at the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority William Boeh said the support from the African Development Bank is intended to build the capacity of the research and statistics of NaFAA and Agriculture Ministry statistics House in the development of CAPI as a tool for data collection.
Mr. Boah said the training is to enable the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority NaFAA Staff have access to timely collection of all Fisheries real time Data and at the same time drastically reduce the cost of Fisheries Surveys.
Speaking Earlier, the Senior Statisticians at NaFAA disclosed that the Fisheries and Agriculture Sectors have over the years encounter problems consistent with the manual paper-based method of data collection and date input.
Nasi Broh who termed the paper-based method of data collection and date input process as extremely expensive and slow said they are experiencing difficulties in receiving data from the field on time.
Broh also mentioned that the creation of a data input pool is another setback and relevance of the data due to the timeliness.
He cautioned the Participants from NaFAA and MOA to capture all of the materials that will be offered them by the Experts from Ivory Coast Eloi Sando Somtinda CAPI Project Manager from the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank.
Pointing to the Facilitator Eloi Sando Somtinda, Mr. Broh mentioned that the agricultural and Fisheries sectors are the key to Liberia’s survival as a nation.
He date emulating from the sectors will go a long way in equipping policy makers to make the right decisions for the growth and development of Liberia.