Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala's Conditional Cash Transfer Program

• Tác giả: Carlos Perez Brito
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 320.97 Political science (Politics and government)
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 304081
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS PRIVILEGES; 2. BOUNDARIES; 3. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; 4. CAPABILITIES; 5. CELL PHONE

Tóm tắt

A 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce costs, facilitate accuracy and accelerate implementation of a nationally-representative beneficiary survey of Guatemala's conditional cash transfer program. As such it illustrates the potential of mobile phone-based data collection to strengthen program monitoring, evaluation and implementation, in particular in remote and marginalized areas highly populated by indigenous peoples.