Data Collection in Fragile States

Innovations from Africa and Beyond

Johannes Hoogeveen, Utz Pape

• Publisher: World Bank
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783030251208
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Information Management
• Index: Business

Fragile countries face a triple data challenge. Up-to-date information is needed to deal with rapidly changing circumstances and to design adequate responses. Yet, fragile countries are among the most data deprived, while collecting new information in such circumstances is very challenging. This open access book presents innovations in data collection developed with decision makers in fragile countries in mind. Looking at innovations in Africa from mobile phone surveys monitoring the Ebola crisis, to tracking displaced people in Mali, this collection highlights the challenges in data collection researchers face and how they can be overcome.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• 1 Fragility and Innovations in Data Collection
• Part I Innovations in Data Collection
• 2 Monitoring the Ebola Crisis Using Mobile Phone Surveys
• 3 Rapid Emergency Response Survey
• 4 Tracking Displaced People in Mali
• 5 Resident Enumerators for Continuous Monitoring
• 6 A Local Development Index for the CAR and Mali
• Part II Methodological Innovations
• 7 Methods of Geo-Spatial Sampling
• 8 Sampling for Representative Surveys of Displaced Populations
• 9 Rapid Consumption Surveys
• 10 Studying Sensitive Topics in Fragile Contexts
• 11 Eliciting Accurate Consumption Responses from Vulnerable Populations
• Part III Other Innovations
• 12 Using Video Testimonials to Give a Voice to the Poor
• 13 Iterative Beneficiary Monitoring of Donor Projects
• 14 Concluding Remarks: Data Collection in FCV Environments
• Index