Yes, I'm excited. My work is mostly looking at what KMA, my host organization is doing, and then making suggestions about how they can do their work easier or better. I can't say I have a list of many successes. If you looked at the amount of time I spend trying to do this the report would be dismal to the rate of change I've seen. That said, KMA's Maseru office is going to start using a Microsoft excel framework I made up almost six months ago.
The idea to create a database of all the farmers KMA works with isn't extreme. The need for more accurate and substantive reporting was something I complained about from the beginning and found that there was no real collection and processing of the enormous amounts of data that KMA created. Crop yields, new farm technology implementation rates and and other information was all filed away mostly written on notebook paper that was fading with disgust because it was forgotten. I made up something simple that first broke down each village to gather information about those smaller areas and then a summary system that created matrix data summaries. That all sounds really ridiculous. Really all I did was allow them to put their collected information into the computer for each farmer, each village, and then to have a complete summary ready for them to report.
Hopefully we can work on this to improve the amount of accurate information KMA can report on, particularly the amount of change they see in their farmers' activities. This all aside, let's presume that KMA will be able to find funding from a donor or evolve into something more sustainable instead of dieing the way of other NGOs without a benefactor. That won't diminish my momentary positive excitement!