Performance Monitoring for Action

Voices From the Field – Data Collectors on Working for PMA and the Impact of COVID-19

One feature that makes PMA unique is the cadre of highly-trained female data collectors (known as resident enumerators, or REs) who work in their own communities, thus establishing a rapport with female respondents that produces reliable information on sensitive topics, like abortion. 

We recently spoke with several REs from Burkina Faso, India, Nigeria, and Uganda on their experience working with PMA and how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting them personally, as well as their communities.
 

Voices From the Field – Data Collectors on Working for PMA and the Impact of COVID-19

Impact de la COVID-19 sur les habitudes des Burkinabè et l’accessibilité aux services de santé

Pour limiter la propagation de la pandémie de COVID-19 qui met le monde entier à genoux, le gouvernement du Burkina Faso a pris des mesures restrictives telles que des couvre-feux, la fermeture des marchés et des gares, la suspension des prix, etc. PMA étudie l'impact de COVID-19 sur la vie quotidienne des Burkinabè et l'accessibilité des services de santé en menant une enquête dans les régions du centre et de l'ouest du pays. Nous avons également parlé avec certains de nos enquêtrices pour en savoir plus sur leur expérience de travail avec PMA et sur la manière dont COVID-19 es affecte, ainsi que leurs communautés.

 

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Behind the Scenes of PMA’s Data Collectors

Performance Monitoring for Action, besides providing high-quality data on family planning and sexual and reproductive health, also empowers the women data collectors associated with it and gives them confidence that extends beyond the project. The tireless women data collectors, known as Resident Enumerators, while being on an unstoppable spree of absorbing skills and knowledge during PMA training sessions in Jaipur, Udaipur, and Jodhpur – showed some light on how PMA has been instrumental throughout in overcoming barriers they face in their mental, physical, and financial growth. 

Here are a few of the stories the women bravely shared with us.  

Behind the Scenes of PMA’s Data Collectors