In an effort to revamp the time-intensive process of conducting household surveys to collect health data in developing countries, a new project is using mobile phones and rapid processing techniques to generate regular updates for a tranche of indicators previously only adjusted every three to five years.
The Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 project (º£½Ç»»ÆÞ2020) is supported by the and conducts surveys in seven countries so far to estimate and track a number of development indicators at the household level. The surveys, updated every 6 to 12 months, focus on access to and use of family planning and water and sanitation data, with additional program areas and three countries to be added later.