Fortify Health's
External Dashboard
The purpose of this dashboard is to make data about our programme available to as many people as possible. Through the dashboard, you can see where our mill partners are based, how much fortified atta we're supporting and how many beneficiaries we estimate that we're reaching through our open market work.
Data is central to everything we do at Fortify Health. We believe that collecting and analysing data is crucial to ensuring both that we are having our desired impact and that we are reaching as many people as efficiently as possible. We process a large amount of data about our programme; from information about our onboarding process to the quantity of fortified atta that our existing partners produce. To learn more about our monitoring, evaluation and research work, click here.
Data is central to everything we do at Fortify Health. We believe that collecting and analysing data is crucial to ensuring both that we are having our desired impact and that we are reaching as many people as efficiently as possible. We process a large amount of data about our programme; from information about our onboarding process to the quantity of fortified atta that our existing partners produce. To learn more about our monitoring, evaluation and research work, click here.
How does the dashboard work?
How to use the dashboard - The dashboard is interactive and you can use it to track our progress during specific time periods and in specific states. When you first open the dashboard page, it will show figures for all states and from the earliest possible dates. However, there are two variables you can change:
How to use the dashboard - The dashboard is interactive and you can use it to track our progress during specific time periods and in specific states. When you first open the dashboard page, it will show figures for all states and from the earliest possible dates. However, there are two variables you can change:
- ⦿ Time period: You can toggle the time period of the dashboard by making a selection in the fourth blue box titled: “Select date range”; and
- ⦿ State: You can view data for a specific state by selecting one of the states highlighted on the “Partner mills locations”. When you select that state, the data at the top of the dashboard will change to reflect figures for that specific state.
Where the data comes from - The dashboard displayed here is based on a range of data sources, including:
- ⦿ data collected by our quality officers during visits to mills, which they collect and store using a mobile-phone based tool;
- ⦿ data from our programs team's CRM tool, which tracks interactions with new and existing mill partners; and
- ⦿ other program indicators stored in spreadsheets.
How often the data is updated - The monitoring and evaluation team updates the database linked to this dashboard every day at 8.00 AM IST. However, there may be some short delays (of around a week or two) in information being updated in the underlying data sources. The dashboard therefore provides a very up to date, but not real-time, snapshot of the scale of Fortify Health’s programme.
Points to note:
- ⦿ The number of beneficiaries reached is an estimate and is inherently uncertain. For more information on how we calculate this figure, see explanation below.
- ⦿ Our approach to collecting some of this data (for example, beneficiaries) may change in future as we learn more about consumption patterns. The dashboard should therefore be treated as a general indicator of Fortify Health's progress over time - for more information about the data collection process or the calculations displayed in te dashboard, please contact [email protected]. .
FAQs about the Dashboard
Mill partnerships
Mill partnerships
What is a mill partnership?
- ⦿ Fortify Health signs partnerships with mill partners to provide them with support to fortify chakki atta. The point at which we sign a mill partnership is known as 'on-boarding'. After on-boarding, we support our mill partners to prepare to sell fortified chakki atta into the market.
- ⦿ A mill partner may therefore not necessarily be selling or producing fortified chakki atta if they have been on-boarded but have not completed the launch stage.
What does inception mean for the dashboard?
- ⦿ Inception means the date when we signed our first partnership agreement with a mill partner, which was April 2019. That mill partner launched fortified chakki atta in June 2019.
Production of fortified chakki atta
Who produces the fortified chakki atta monitored in the dashboard?
- ⦿ The dashboard measures fortified chakki atta produced by Fortify Health's mill partners. These mill use their existing machinery to store and mill the chakki atta, but Fortify Health provides them with the equipment, training and support to fortify that chakki atta with vital micronutrients.
How is the fortified chakki atta shown in the dashboard sold?
- ⦿ Fortify Health's mill partners sell the fortified chakki atta that they produce through their existing distribution channels. Our mill partners typically do not sell their chakki atta directly to consumers and will instead sell that atta to retailers or intermediaries who then sell the chakki atta to market.
Who consumes the fortified chakki atta shown in the dashboard?
- ⦿ Fortify Health does not know who consumes the fortified chakki atta that its mill partners support. We do not track this information because we interact exclusively with food producers and distributors, not end-users. However, we use production data and consumption data to estimate the number of beneficiaries that we reach through our mill partnerships. These estimates are shown in the dashboard.
What time period is covered by the dashboard?
The time periods for the metrics in the dashboard are indicated within the dashboard itself:
- ⦿ The line graphs for mill partnerships and beneficiaries reached each run from mid-July 2022 to the latest month;
- ⦿ The line graph for for fortified atta production and two banners for total mill partners and total cumulative fortified atta produced each run from inception; and
- ⦿ The final metric, total beneficiaries reached, relates to the previous month.
Number of beneficiaries reached
How do you calculate the number of beneficiaries reached?
The number of beneficiaries reached is an estimate. We calculate the beneficiaries reached in a given month by:
- ⦿ Calculating the amount of fortified atta that we've supported in each state in that month (using data obtained from our mill partners);
- ⦿ Dividing each of these amounts by the per capita consumption of wheat in each respective state (using figures from NSSO 2011-2012 survey); and
- ⦿ Applying a discount to those figures to account for potential wastage of wheat flour.
What are Fortify Health's uncertainties with the beneficiaries figure?
Our major uncertainties around this figure are:
- ⦿ Whether the consumption data that we use reflects patterns in the areas we operate in - The consumption figures that we rely on are from a 2011-2012 NSSO survey. The survey had a large sample and results are divided by state, but it may not reflect recent trends in consumption in the actual areas that we operate in;
- ⦿ Whether our discount for wastage is appropriate - We apply a wastage deduction of 22% to our beneficiaries calculation, based on our team's experience in food technology. However, this may not be reflective of the actual level of wastage of our partners' chakki atta production.
- ⦿ Whether the consumers purchasing atta from our millers are consuming that atta consistently - Our beneficiaries figure assumes that the consumers purchasing our millers' fortified chakki atta consume that fortified atta regularly. If that is not the case, we may be supporting fortified chakki atta to a larger number of people or having a smaller impact on anaemia for the people that we are reaching (because those people are not consuming fortified atta consistently or in large quantities).
