Questions re progress reporting
Questions in regards to progress reporting from UNMEE to the GICHD/IMSMA Regional Coordinator for Africa and the Middle East:
- Does the progress report refer to daily, weekly or monthly reporting?
- What does the line 'SOP reference' mean on page 2?
- Where do we put the perimeter (turning points) at the form?
- How do we differentiate 'area worked' vs 'area (finally) cleared' in the progress report? Not all areas with work progress are also cleared: There might be first a mechanical clearance (reported in the progress report), and the following week a manual clearance (reported in next week's progress report), before it is finally cleared.
- How do we enter roads (with kilometers of completion, not square meters)?
- Is there a chance to have a progress report against a dangerous area(suspected minefield, helipad/bridge etc) ?
- Is there a chance to put a geographical shape against a progress? Or, dowe have to convert progress areas to clearances first to store their shapes? (We are talking here about weekly progress reporting; MECHEM e.g. with 30-40 progress 'reports').
1. IMSMA is flexible and allows a start and end date for the reporting period. This period can be a day, week or month.
2. We don\'t use this fields. You can enter the paragraph of your SOP to document which one of the methods has been used.
3. IMSMA accepts perimeter data for a minefield (reported from technical survey), clearance or completion survey.
With the progress report, no perimeter data is accepted and there is no tblProgressReportPerimeter.
4. A UDF could be the solution to report a \'type of work\' = \'area preparation\';\'clearance\';... This UDF then needs to be picked-up in the Data Analysis and Reporting Tool (ours is called IMSMA_Rep and uses Excel pivot table functionality).
5. You could request the width to be able to calculate the area in square meters.
6. Create a task and in \'Task activities\' create a minefield by deriving data from a dangerous area. Then add a progress report to this minefield.
7. Yes your idea with creating a clearance first looks ok for me.