Prove your impact with absolute confidence
Meaningful monitoring and evaluation requires reliable data, no matter where your programs operate.
Whether you’re tracking key indicators in remote villages or following up on longitudinal programs, SurveyCTO empowers organizations to simplify M&E and magnify impact.
Simplify the complexity of M&E programs
Today’s social impact programs demand far more than simple digital surveys. When you’re coordinating data collection with multiple partners, tracking participants through years of interventions, or navigating strict compliance requirements, you need a solution built for complexity and flexible enough for on-the-ground realities.
SurveyCTO is built to streamline these intricate workflows.
Our mobile data collection platform provides the secure, centralized infrastructure you need to guarantee data integrity, support evidence-based decision-making, and remove the friction that comes from using fragmented data systems.
SurveyCTO ensures successful monitoring and evaluation through secure, scalable infrastructure
Managing monitoring and evaluation programs often means collecting highly sensitive participant information, and following up with participants over long periods of time while keeping their data organized.
SurveyCTO delivers the following to make successful M&E possible:
Track program indicators easily over time
Successful program monitoring sometimes requires longitudinal data collection, something that can’t be cleanly managed with disjointed one-time surveys.
With case management, you can:
- Assign unique IDs to each participant and easily link them across baseline, midline, and endline assessments
- Assign cases to the enumerators, automatically linking data back to collectors
- Prepopulate current surveys with data from previous surveys for up-to-date context, always
Collect data in any location, even offline
M&E can take you to locations that don’t have reliable internet. You need a tool that is optimized, field-tested, and has features that work without breaking in offline environments.
Your teams can manage the entire data collection workflow without internet, with the ability to:
- Assign and transfer cases to enumerators in the field
- Ping existing datasets to pull past information directly into live surveys
- Consolidate collected data locally and sync them back to the server once connectivity is back
Reduce manual data cleaning
When your focus is on delivering accurate impact reports, you need a platform that will reduce, not increase, your QA burden.
With SurveyCTO, you can improve data quality oversight, prevent bad data from being submitted, and export clean data for analysis with:
- Automated data quality checks
- A workflow that proactively helps you review and correct incoming submissions
- Advanced survey logic that helps prevent invalid entries from being submitted
Access responsive, 24/7 available, human support
Our team of data collection experts is one you can rely on, no matter where you work in the world.
While our purpose-built AI Assistant is always available for immediate chatbot responses to quick questions, we believe in the importance of accessible support from human experts.
We’re proud to offer global, responsive support as well as professional services so that you always have access to the help you need.
Simplify your tech stack
There’s no need to have multiple tools to collect data for M&E. You simply need a platform that can do what you need at the price point you want.
SurveyCTO provides these capabilities in one platform so you can reduce costs and simplify your tech stack:
- Multi-mode options (CAPI, CATI, CAWI)
- Hierarchical case management
- Dynamic task assignment
- Offline data collection
- Multimedia data collection (e.g. GPS or audio)
- Enumerator monitoring
- Polygon data capture
Handle sensitive data, securely
At its heart, M&E programs deal with highly sensitive data. When you work with vulnerable populations, you need a platform that has safeguards built in to help you protect that data.
SurveyCTO has always prioritized data security on behalf of both users and respondents with features and benefits, like:
- End-to-end, at rest, and in transit encryption
- A SOC 2-audited and GDPR-compliant platform
- Granular user roles and permissions
100WEEKS conducted over 45,000 interviews with SurveyCTO to measure the impact of their cash transfer program
100WEEKS was able to:
Conduct longitudinal data collection and track program participants over years
Interview program participants remotely with CATI functionality
Collect data offline, no matter where their base-, mid-, and endline surveys took place
Set your M&E data collection up for success with these resources
Playbook for longitudinal data collection
CATI survey workflow template
Baseline survey workflow template
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SurveyCTO used for, and can it support monitoring and evaluation?
SurveyCTO is a secure, mobile data collection platform designed to capture data in any environment. We are particularly well-suited for field and offline data collection efforts.
Given that, we are widely used and trusted by organizations doing monitoring and evaluation. We help teams move beyond basic digital surveys and help you securely track program indicators over time, manage complex data collection workflows, and monitor data quality so you can confidently prove your impact.
How does SurveyCTO support offline data collection in field-based M&E settings?
SurveyCTO was built with offline data collection in mind. Our platform allows field teams to run their full data collection workflow offline as smoothly as it would online.
Organizations can use the SurveyCTO Collect mobile app to capture data entirely offline. Beyond basic data capture, our advanced offline features allow enumerators to easily assign and transfer cases between enumerators and access prior survey data without needing a connection. All collected data is safely stored on the device and automatically syncs to your server as soon as connectivity is restored.
Can SurveyCTO be used to track program indicators and longitudinal data over time for M&E?
Absolutely. Tracking the same participants, households, or indicators over months or years is seamless with SurveyCTO’s case management feature.
You can securely prepopulate historical baseline data directly into follow-up surveys. This ensures your enumerators are always following up with the correct subjects in the field and drastically reduces the time your team spends manually cleaning and matching data across spreadsheets.