Publication: 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
Date
2011-02
ISSN
Published
2011-02
Author(s)
Schuster, Christian
Perez Brito, Carlos
Abstract
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.
Citation
“Schuster, Christian; Perez Brito, Carlos. 2011. 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. en breve; No. 166. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/67d2bc10-e154-5118-abae-94597681a8c3 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”