Knowing Just in Time: Use cases for mobile surveys in the humanitarian world Photo: WFP / David Orr

WHO IS mVAM TALKING TO?

Respondents are contacted on their own, basic mobile phones

Key informantsTraders, NGO workers, etc.

HouseholdsRandomly selected households within the areas of interest

mVAM CALL CENTER

WORKFLOW

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REACH = >20 COUNTRIES

> 20,000 QUESTIONNAIRES/MONTH

ACTIVE PROJECTS18

11 COMING SOON

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3 MAIN USE CASES

Displaced persons living in

camps• Democratic Republic of Congo

• Somalia• Niger• Kenya

Low access/emergen

cy• Guinea Liberia, Sierra Leone

• Iraq• Yemen• Syria• North Nigeria• South Sudan

Vulnerable geographies

• Malawi• Madagascar• Papua New Guinea

‘WFP’s “mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping” unit investigates the food security situation in places where staff cannot physically go.’Bearing witness to the crimes of the Islamic State by Chloe Cornish, IRIN

Source: WFP mVAM, October 2015

Supporting response in IRAQ

SUPPORT TO TACTICAL DECISIONS

DATA SHARING

1) Aggregate data is shared on a databank

2) Findings are shared through bulletins published online

3) mVAM shares data through two APIs:- One private, used to share raw data- One public, used to share aggregate data

HDX

Evidence of data being re-used and re-analyzed by European Commission, USAID and others

NEW APPROACHES

BARRIERS

Incomplete cell phone coverage

Low access to tech for vulnerable

groups

Low capacity to use

information

LOOKING AHEAD

For more information on mVAM:

Website: vam.wfp.org/sites/mvam_monitoring

BulletinsDataBankResources

Twitter: @mobileVAM

Blog: mvam.org

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