How Havuta Can Help Organisations Get Daily COVID Symptom Updates From Their Beneficiaries
Organisations working on projects with communities are now able to get regular COVID symptom updates from their beneficiaries through the Havuta app. The app helps organisations get fast support and relief to their communities they serve, while keeping themselves and all their stakeholders safe.
The data flow achieves two vital functions. Firstly, it allows organisations to continue their important work when it is presumed safe to do so, i.e. when no symptoms have been reported. This ensures impact-driven organisations can continue to deliver much-needed services.
Secondly, it allows organisations to offer assistance in the event of a report of symptoms. Development professionals can offer instructions on how the symptomatic can interact and can suggest further action, such as seeking medical advice or testing. This allows an organisation to offer more holistic aid and development, which is critical during a pandemic.
With a lot of development work having had to have ceased during the COVID pandemic, allowing work to proceed with safety and with the welfare of all stakeholders in mind is critical to getting the development sector to return to pursue the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals — progress towards which receded during 2020.
Primarily, Havuta is an impact data collection service. Its use to collect real-time self-reported COVID symptoms has been a novel deployment of the app, but one which the infrastructure can easily accommodate.
Havuta’s aim is to help the development sector get the data it needs, when it needs it, in order to maximise its impact. COVID symptom reporting, with strong data protections and incentivized engagement, is helping the sector to work as close to normally as possible, while ensuring all stakeholders’ safety is respected.
2020 was a trying year in the sector. As we reported last year, COVID’s “impact on development… has been catastrophic. For the first time since global human development goals were first measured in 1990, progress has reversed.” Havuta is determined to be a partner to organisations looking ahead to continue with their critical work.
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