On the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo lies Virunga National Park, home to the endangered mountain gorilla. The biggest risk to the gorillas' habitat is illegal logging for firewood, and data collection plays a crucial role in helping to protect that habitat.
Over the last few years, World Wide Fund (WWF) has fought illegal logging in the park with Eco Makala, an innovative effort to help rural smallholder farmers plant, grow, harvest, and sell trees for firewood. In addition to helping protect gorilla habitat by reducing illegal logging, Eco Makala also helps raise farmers out of poverty by providing an extra source of income.
By replacing the WWF's paper forms with Android tablets and phones running Nafundi's ODK software, WWF's data is now rich with GPS locations of each plantation and pictures of the growing trees. WWF staff can now accurately monitor plantation progress in real-time and quickly react with more interventions that will help farmers (and their gorilla neighbors) be more successful.
Nafundi can help your team collect data accurately and report results instantly. Contact our data collection experts to get started.In early 2018, polio virus was detected in the sewers of Mogadishu, Somalia and the government moved quickly to vaccinate the country's children in order to prevent a potential outbreak. A vaccination campaign targeting more than 726,000 children was launched in the Banadir and Lower and Middle Shabelle regions. The campaign was carried out by some 3,500 staffers and Nafundi assisted by enabling real-time tracking of vaccination coverage using ODK. Read more.
Fayaz Jatoi is the Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for Polio Eradication in Sindh, Pakistan. In this guest post, Fayaz describes why AFP surveillance is critical to polio eradication and how an SMS-based reporting system for private care provider helps. Read more.
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