My Nonprofit Reviews

FiRSTLY, in the year 2021 during COVID pandemic, My team of 3 and I in UNHCR, Jijiga in Ethiopia learnt about Kobotoolbox from OCHA colleagues. As a team working on Comprehensive and Development Responses to a protracted refugee situation, we needed to urgently support partners and local authorities to have data for planning. We therefore learnt the user friendly Kobotoolbox and tested it for participatory assessments with the Regional State Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs and Refugee and Returnee Servjce trained host community social workers and successfully used it for Community Based Participatory Assessment data collection and analyses.Using Kobocollect deployed in tablets enabled a good representative sample, speed and accuracy of data summaries and analyses.
SECONDLY, in 2022, with Regional State Bureau if Economic Planning and Development, we again successfully used Kobotoolbox to administer a Socio Economic Assessment in refugee hosting areas of Jijiga, Ethiopia.
ADDTINALLY, in 2023 with Regional State Bureau of Finance and Refugee and Returnee Service, we deployed Kobotoolbox for online area based coordination information sharing by various partners for quick analyses and 5W planning and reporting.
My conclusion is that Kobotoolbox is an essential and handy tool for evidence generation for Humanitarian-Develipment-Peace initiatives.