General introduction to Mobile Data Collection

Terre des hommes regional training

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Training agenda

Introduction

Chapter 1: Mobile Data Collection : Introduction and Principles (morning)

Chapter 2: Taking Open Data Kit (ODK) and Kobo in hand (afternoon)

Chapter 3: Plan your data collection methodologically (1/2 day)

Chapter 4: Basic and advanced encoding of a formusing XLS form, survey standard operationalprocedures, data security (2 days)

Chapter 5: Data management (0,5 day)

Chapter 5: Data cleaning (0,5 day)

Chapter 5: Data analysis (1 day)

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Objectives of the training

Understand the Mobile Data Collection main advantages and drawbacks, when to use it or not

Be able to set a mobile data collection:

– Design a simple and complex survey (technically and methodologically)

– Deploy it in the field

– Manage the data

– Analyze the results

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Presenting CartONG

Février 2017 4

What?

Non-profit NGO specialized in mapping and information management services for humanitarian organizations (H2H)

Based in France

Created in 2006

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CartONG

CartONG - Who?

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The Headquarters in Chambéry

But teams often in the field with our partners

Multidisciplinary salaried team and volunteer team

CartONG - With whom?

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Our functioning modes

Directly financed « Humanitarian to Humanitarian » interventions for ourpartners

Research projects funded by donors, for example on the use of drones in the humanitarian field (ECHO/FSD)

Volunteer projects for smallassociations, such as:

– Missing Maps projects

– mapping of any AIDS-relatedinitiatives in Madagascar

To know more: http://drones.fsd.ch/, https://humanitarian-nomad.org/, http://cnls.cartong.org/ , http://www.missingmaps.org/

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CartONG

Mapping & GIS (1/2)

Help organisations with their long-run GIS strategy

Help gather information, create links betweenorganisations

Set up long-term desktop & webmapping solutions

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Mapping & GIS (2/2)

And we also make maps! Ex: 1000 for MSF in 2014/15

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Information Management and MDC

Develops and uses MDC since 2009

Various training courses provided to many partners(UNHCR, UNICEF, Solidarités, REACH, Caritas, Terre des hommes, Bioforce, SOS Faim etc.)

Large scale deployment, e.g. SENS (several dozendeployments)

Build MI capacity overall, focus on training and development of sustainableprojects

Regular benchmarking of solutions for

partners shared with thecommunity if

possible (see blog.cartong.org)

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Capacity building (1/2)

Since 2006, for example:

– Training sessions inter and intra-NGO…

– CartoBlog: technical blog to share good practices & tips

Open to collaborations, ourprojects are always based on the requirements of a partner(INGO, local community…)

http://www.cartong.org/capacity-building

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Capacity building (2/2)

The GeOnG, biggest(independent) international conference on the topic of humanitarian GIS

– organized every 2 years in Chambéry, France (70 organisations present in 2016)

– Its aim: capacity building, exchanges between NGOs, international organisations, scholars and the private sector on current practices and upcoming challenges

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The CartONG/Terre des hommes partnership

Collaboration since 2013 – started off with one delegation (BFA) and is now transversal to HQ & field

Memorandum of Understanding since 2015

Type of activities :

– Tool & methodology implementation

– Capacity building (trainings, documentation, etc) Formations / tutoriels

– Strategical support

– Support for technical recruitments

– Studies (needs analysis, benchmarkings etc)

– Hotline (mobile.data@tdh.ch)

– Tool customisations….

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Focus Mobile Data Collection

Nb of delegations using MDC:

– In 2013: 1

– Beginning of 2017: 12 (+ 4 regional trainings in 2017)

Nb of people aware at HQ:

– In 2015: 3

– Beginning of 2017: 25

Thematics: WASH, Protection, JJ, Health

Example Irak (in 1 year):

– 38 surveys deployed

– 11881 submissions

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Any questions?

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Data Collection / Surveys: definitions and examples

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Exercise

What is a data collection?

What is a Survey?

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Collection of The data

What is a data collection / a survey ?

A data collection is the action of obtaining and compiling information

A survey is the methodical research of specific information.

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Exercise

Can you give me a list of examples that you use in your projects:

– of data collection

– Of surveys

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Collection of The data

Examples of surveys

Baseline survey

Market survey

Knowledge Attitudes Practises surveys

Socio-economic surveys

post distribution surveys (PDMs)

Nutrition Surveys

water points attendance surveys

Feedback surveys

Etc.

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Mobile Data Collection: Introduction and Principles

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A major game changer

Mobile technology is a big major step in Information Management (IM)

Now it is possible “live” to :

MDC- introduction and principles

What is mobile data collection (MDC)?

MDC: using phones (mostly smartphones or tablets) for data collection instead of paper forms

Wide range of solutions depending on the operating system, the requirements (SMS,export formats, online/offline, cloud storage, paying or not…)

Tested by CartONG since 2009, used at a large scale since 2010

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MDC- introduction and principles

History of the technologyMDC- introduction and principles

1983 1992 19991996 2003 2010

First mobile

Motorola DynaTAC

8000X

First mobile

mass-

produced

Nokia 1011

Tactile

screenIphone

First PDA (Personal Digital

Assistant) mass-produced

Palm Pilot

First tablet

Mass-produced

Ipad

20072002

Smartphone(PDA + email)

Blackberry 5810

2008

Android (Open source

operating

system)

HTC G1

First integrated system

PDA-GPS

Garmin iQue 3600

First mobile with

3G (better

bandwidth)

Nokia 7110

1998

First portable

GPS Garmin

Etrex First mobile

using

WAP(Wireless

Application

Protocol)

Nokia 7110

Exercise

Any examples of current uses inside Terre des hommes?

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MDC- introduction and principles

Known use in Terre des hommes (slide from 01/2017)

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Burkina (since 2013)

• Biannual evaluation of foodsecurity in certain areas

• Follow up of children from 0 to 5

Philippines (2014/2015)

• Follow up of shelterconstruction

Guinea (since summer 2015)

• Follow up of knowledge and medical practises concerningEbola in health EvaluatingWASH needs in differentschools/health facilities

Mali (since summer 2015)

• Evaluation of communityhealth associations

Irak (since spring 2016)

• Market evaluations (access to resources)

• IDP- localisation and information on sites

• Post Distribution Monitoring of hygiene/Winter/NFI/Cash

Tdh Ukraine (depuis

printemps 2016)

• Cash/livelihood householdsurveys

Exercise

Organize yourselves in 2 groups and list all the advantages and disadvantages that you see for mobile data collection (compared to paper data collection)

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MDC- introduction and principles

Exercise

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DisadvantagesBenefits

Benefits

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Better data quality (input controls, skip patterns, inbuild calculations)

Faster data entry (no double entries)

Results ready for analysis as soon Internet is available (3G – Wifi)

Cheaper if used frequently

One tool for pictures, GPS, videos, bar codes, signatures etc- multi-language possible

Interviewers go lighter in the field

Disadvantages

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MDC- introduction and principles

Requires longer training & more IT skills in project

Longer survey preparation

Survey is not as visual as it can be on paper

Fragile technology and expensive at first

Dependance on electricity

Can be a safety issue if not managed properly

Not adapted for qualitative surveys

Can be intimidating for some / create distance with the person interviewed / not appropriate in some contexts

The Phases of a MDC

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MDC- introduction and principles

Prepare the tools Collect/manage the data Analyze and share