COVID-19 crisis: How to Adapt Your Data Collection for Monitoring & Accountability?

Publication language
English
Pages
19pp
Date published
07 Apr 2020
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Accountability to affected populations (AAP), COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Evaluation-related, Monitoring
Organisations
CartONG

While humanitarian and development programs need to adapt to the epidemic by integrating the constraints of social distancing (limiting the frequency, proximity and quantity of "face-to-face" activities), the same applies to Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and accountability mechanisms.

This note is intended for headquarters and field teams in charge of M&E and aims to help them adapt by summarizing the possible technological alternatives concerning:
 Data collection mechanisms
 Ways information is exchanged with communities
 Related data protection issues