Challenge Description
How can we facilitate collection of information in low digital literacy areas which are typically collected in-person for researchers and evaluators in order to solve the challenge of not being able to conduct in-person fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that the data collected would remain reliable, valid, unbiased, representative, etc.
Approach
Pandemic may take some long duration, but evaluators should be continue their work in areas where they are unable to complete in-person data collection (either due to COVID-19 or other circumstances). If there is easy access of the modern technologies (like as; internet, mobile phones etc.) and if beneficiaries have good digital and data literacy it would be easy for data collection. Nevertheless, if they do not have easy access on internet and phone service and data literacy is relatively low among the general population. This will be problematic for data collection. In this context participatory statistics (PS) will be effective data collection approach.