Getting ready for interoperability: Three steps you can take right now
Implement these three essential steps to achieve data interoperability and streamline your fieldwork operations.
Three critical support considerations when choosing a mobile data collection tool
Looking for a mobile data collection platform? Here are 3 ways the right customer support can improve your data collection quality.
54gene enhances phenotypic data collection with the aid of SurveyCTO’s systemized platform
Learn how SurveyCTO is helping 54gene to streamline data collection in their quest to close the diversity gap in genomic insight generation and precision medicine.
SurveyCTO API: 6 tips for automating survey data management
Push survey data to other platforms, filter submissions by review status, create real-time dashboards, and more with the SurveyCTO API. Here's how.
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).
4 things you didn’t know SurveyCTO Desktop can do!
See how SurveyCTO Desktop is the most powerful and flexible way to create your own workspace, export data, work offline, and manage projects.
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.
Working with a survey firm? Advice to collect better data
If you are launching a research project in a country where you don’t have a physical presence, you may be considering the possibility of collecting data with a sub-contracted survey…
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.
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.
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.
‘Empowering women and demystifying technology’ with Barefoot College
Barefoot College has been connecting rural communities to solar, water, education, professions, and advocacy for over forty years. We asked Global Monitoring and Evaluation Director Lauren Remedios about her work leading monitoring and evaluation activities, the Barefoot College training model, and how "solar mamas" are using SurveyCTO in India.
Studying infectious disease, hospitals, and umbilical cord care in Zambia
Boston University's Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD) is a multidisciplinary research center that focuses on global health and social development challenges. Several of their studies use SurveyCTO, and we recently connected with Dr. Davidson Hamer about his implementation research on infectious disease, particularly as it impacts mothers and children.
Studying Quality of Life in India with 4th Wheel Social Impact
We recently connected with Sharon Weir, the co-founder of 4th Wheel Social Impact (4WSI), about how SurveyCTO aligns with their work improving the way social programs in India are conceptualized, implemented, monitored, and evaluated. She shared details of a recent project in Bangalore that is assessing the impact of life skills program for local youth and why digital data collection is great for researchers AND respondents.
Expert advice from Faizan Diwan on M&E and digital data collection
We recently interviewed Faizan Diwan, who many of you may know from his work with SurveyCTO. Prior to joining the Dobility team, he spent several years as a Research Manager for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Kenya, where he led multiple large-scale impact evaluations spanning finance, labor, agriculture, and public health, managed the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics in Nairobi, and helped lead IPA Kenya’s efforts to shift from paper-based to tablet-based surveys. We asked him about digital data collection and his advice for others.