Why Impact-Driven Organisations are Turning to Havuta for Data Collection
The days of pen-and-paper data collection are fast coming to an end in the development sector. Digital technologies and internet connectivity are growing at around five percent annually in the developing world, with resultant data collection practices following suit.
Yet, to date, the technical solutions still have their limitations. Some tools are built to handle data collection and nothing else. These tools are fantastic and have allowed the sector to grow from pen-and-paper collection, with all the associated risks of data loss from collection to data entry for analysis.
But what is lacking, until now, is a solution that allows organisations to perform the full scope of data collection and analysis in one solution. Havuta is an all-in-one beneficiary management, data collection, and data analysis suite built from the ground up with the development sector in mind.
Data collection can be conducted in-person, in enumerator mode, or through the use of the Havuta mobile app, which allows for self-completion. That option provides organisations with the flexibility to broadcast questionnaires to beneficiaries wherever they live, significantly cutting down on staffing and travel costs.
Havuta’s dashboard also allows organisations to permission different employees and even external researchers to different levels and different programs, ensuring beneficiary data privacy at all times. This permissioning approach affords an organisation full control over who gets to see and do what.
A hashed representation of all data collected is recorded to a public blockchain, meaning organisations have a record of proof of impact. Using blockchain technology in this way means impact is verified, helping to enhance trust between implementing organisations and donor agencies.
And with our unique incentive mechanism, organisations can issue digital incentives like mobile phone credits to their beneficiaries from a distance — ensuring a highly motivated survey panel with the potential for longitudinal studies to follow up and measure an intervention’s long-term impacts.
The Havuta data collection tool is built with impact-driven organisations in mind, helping effective development actors ensure continued flows of funding through a robust impact data collection solution that allows them to navigate the challenges of data collection in the development sector.
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