Making Modern Slavery Prevalence Studies Count (Accurately)
Read about how researchers at the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS) used SurveyCTO for a modern slavery prevalence study that used Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI).
How NORC measures commercial sexual exploitation in Kenya with respondent-driven sampling
Explore how NORC at the University of Chicago is leveraging SurveyCTO to measure the prevalence of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in coastal Kenya with respondent-driven sampling (RDS).
How the World Bank’s Third Party Monitoring reduced data collection time and improved data validity
Learn how a consortium including BDO, Assess, Transform, Reach (ATR), and Integrity Global saved time and improved data quality by digitalizing data collection with SurveyCTO in Afghanistan.
Just a call away? Learnings from phone surveys in India and Nepal
Based on COVID-19 phone surveys conducted in India and Nepal, researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) share insights on challenges and lessons learned.
Do school closures have to stop learning? How Young 1ove is teaching students remotely
Discover how education NGO Young 1ove pivoted from in-person to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019 Nobel Prize in Economics
Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer! Here at Dobility, we have been enthusiastic students, colleagues, followers, and supporters for many years, and we couldn’t be happier for them.
Ready to automate? IDinsight shares its integrations and workflows for household survey project management
Discover how IDinsight uses SurveyCTO integrations and workflows to automate and decentralize survey project management.
Photo credit: Simrin Makhija, Research Analyst, IFPRI
Pro tips for designing and deploying complex agricultural surveys from IFPRI
Learn survey form design pro tips, best practices, and even explore part of a complex, agricultural survey instrument from IFPRI’s Simrin Makhija.
Automated fieldwork management in Ethiopia’s HIPSTER program evaluation
Learn how Christian Meyer automated the management and scheduling of interviews in an evaluation of the HIPSTER program in Ethiopia.
Improving health systems through family caregiver training programs across India with Noora Health
An interview with Sehj Kashyap, Director of Impact Evaluation at Noora Health to learn how they were transforming hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms to train family members of patients with high impact health skills.
Diets, choices, and interdisciplinary research in South Asia
Interview with Till Ludwig, of the Centre for Development Research, on his research trying to better understand how people choose their diets in South Asia.
Oxfam Canada shares their winning strategy for data excellence at MERL Tech London 2018
Dobility sat down with Oxfam Canada’s Anja Kessler to reflect on MERL Tech London 2018, share best practices in digital data collection, and discuss how MEL (monitoring, evaluation, and learning) is improving programing, including Creating Spaces to Act on Violence Against Women and Girls (CS).
BINGO! Quality Data Collection Isn’t a Game, but Oxfam Canada Won with SurveyCTO
MERL TECH UK 2018 LUNCH SESSION Dobility is excited to be speaking at the upcoming MERL Tech UK event in London, March 19th and 20th. Our lunchtime session will review…
Magic Bus India Foundation Collects Evidence-Based Data to Measure Their Impact on Underprivileged Youth
Magic Bus India Foundation equips some of India's poorest children and young people with the skills and knowledge to grow up and be successful. In this case study, the Magic Bus team shares their experience with SurveyCTO and how it helped them answer the challenges that they had been facing in their Monitoring and Evaluation projects related to data security and timeliness.
Achieving Harmony Between Project Implementation and Research – Lessons from Laterite’s Embedded Advisor Model
Laterite recently entered a long-term engagement with TechnoServe’s East Africa Coffee Initiative to provide embedded and independent research and evaluation services to their operations in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Rwanda. We spoke with the Laterite team to understand this new embedded model and how it has helped their teams achieve harmony between project implementation and research.
Mobile case management for multi-dimensional accountability
Oxfam is collaborating with local and global partners to capture, analyze, and respond to community feedback using SurveyCTO's case management functionality in an innovative way. The goal is to inform Oxfam’s Middle East humanitarian response and give those affected by crisis a voice for improved support and services. In this post, Chris summarizes a conference session with Oxfam GB's Emily Tomkys Valteri, including background on SurveyCTO's support for mobile case management.
Improving the living conditions of populations in Mali with CERIPS
Recently, we had a chance to connect with our users at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur l'Information en Population et Santé (CERIPS), a private research center in West Africa working to improve the living conditions of populations in Mali. CERIPS has worked with Population Council and UNICEF on multiple projects using SurveyCTO to collect baseline and endline survey data.
Skills, status, and social networks: New research from South India
How does the formation of skills and social networks, especially those defined at the community and individual levels, influence the characteristics of individuals' trajectories in terms of social status, employment, and migration in South India? We connected with Christophe Jalil Nordman about his work on the Networks, Employment, dEbt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey (NEEMSIS) project at the French Institute of Pondicherry and asked him how his team is using SurveyCTO.
Perspectives from the Mekong region with MDRI
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with researchers at Mekong Development Research Institute (MDRI), a scientific research agency in the Mekong region and longtime SurveyCTO user. MDRI partners with a wide range of international and domestic clients, including the Asian Development Bank, International Labor Organization, United Nations Development Programme, and many others on projects spanning survey management, evaluation, M&E, and applied research.
Scaling up skills-based training in Rwanda and Uganda with Educate!
Educate! is focused on transforming secondary education in Africa through skills-based training – and has been using SurveyCTO for the past three years to improve and scale up its systems. We recently connected with Educate!’s Shauna Davidson, who shared more about their model, the students they are serving, and how they are integrating SurveyCTO with their monitoring dashboards.
Studying the Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector in Bangladesh with ARCED Foundation
Aureolin Research, Consultancy and Expertise Development (ARCED) Foundation is a long-time SurveyCTO user based in Dhaka, Bangladesh that works with teams from Plan International, Oxfam, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, MIT, National University of Singapore, and many others. We connected with Md. Zahirul Islam about his work at ARCED, their research on the Ready Made Garments (RMG) sector, and how their organization has used SurveyCTO to improve the quality of the data they collect.