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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

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...

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Main Authors: Schuster, Christian, Perez Brito, Carlos
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ACCESS PRIVILEGES
BOUNDARIES
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CAPABILITIES
CELL PHONE
CELL-PHONE
CELL-PHONES
COMMUNITIES
COMPUTER SKILLS
COMPUTER SYSTEM
CONFIDENTIALITY
COST SAVINGS
DATA AGGREGATION
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA COLLECTION
DATA ENTRY
DATA TRANSMISSION
DECISION MAKING
DIGITAL ASSISTANTS
DIGITIZATION
DISTANCE EDUCATION
FINANCIAL SERVICES
FIXED-LINE INFRASTRUCTURE
FREE SOFTWARE
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
GPS
HOST
HOST SERVERS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INNOVATION
INSTITUTION
INTERNATIONAL BANK
LEARNING
LEGAL STATUS
LITERACY
MARKET INFORMATION
MOBILE DEVICES
MOBILE PHONE
MOBILE PHONE USERS
MOBILE PHONES
PACKET RADIO
PACKET RADIO SERVICE
PASSWORD
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
QUALITY CONTROL
REAL-TIME DATA
SERVER
SERVERS
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
TRAINING WORKSHOP
TRANSMISSION
TYPES OF USERS
UBIQUITOUS ACCESS
USER
USERS
WEB
WEB BROWSER
WEB INTERFACE
WEBSITE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/02/13950430/cutting-costs-boosting-quality-collecting-data-real-time-lessons-cell-phone-based-beneficiary-survey-strengthen-guatemalas-conditional-cash-transfer-program
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10111
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Summary: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.

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