GeoPoll IVR Survey in Afghanistan

To gather information about the current situation on-the-ground in Afghanistan, GeoPoll is conducting a survey in October 2021 through Interactive Voice Response (IVR). IVR surveys are able to reach anyone with a mobile phone, even illiterate populations and those without internet access. The voice call surveys are being conducted in local languages (Dari and Pashto). All respondents opt in to the study and are given information regarding the confidentiality of their responses.

While power and communications outages have been ongoing in some areas, GeoPoll is reaching a representative mix of urban and rural respondents aged 18+. The survey includes a number of crucial and nationally important topics, including:

• Employment and income changes
• Access to essential services (electricity, fuel, water)
• Access to medical care and education
• Food supply and spending
• Humanitarian aid availability and need
• Displacement and migration

Collecting Data For International Development and Relief

GeoPoll continues to collect data as the situation unfolds in Afghanistan and will publish a report of the research findings upon completion of the study.

Accurate and timely data collection is an essential part of mitigating crises in emerging markets with vulnerable populations. The data collected can help international and humanitarian organizations understand the repercussions of political and environmental changes in the region and mitigate the impact on the people of Afghanistan.

GeoPoll has extensive experience conducting research in vulnerable areas through remote mobile-based methodologies. In times when it is otherwise impossible to get information from people on-the-ground, remote data collection can play a pivotal role in capturing the sentiment and realities in hard-to-reach areas.

To learn more about GeoPoll’s capabilities in Afghanistan and around the world, please contact us.

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GeoPoll’s mobile surveying platform can conduct remote data collection in any Afghan district with near real-time results. For KFZ, geo-locating was used to target respondents living in the Kandahar districts of Panjwayi and Zharai. Surveys were administered in Pashto and participation was free for all respondents. As an incentive, participants received mobile airtime top-up credits following successful completion of the survey.

Survey results provided valuable insights from local beneficiaries into the success of KFZ. According to survey findings:

• Six out of every 10 respondents had heard about the KFZ program through broadcast or print media.
• Communities viewed the program’s interventions very favorably: nearly 100 percent of respondents reported that program greenhouses were either “very productive” or “productive” and that KFZ vocational training programs were either “very useful” or “useful.”
• Almost all respondents felt that women empowerment projects were helpful and close to 80 percent of sampled respondents thought KFZ constructed irrigation canals helped licit crop cultivation

Many surveyed participants felt opium poppy cultivation contributed to corruption and insecurity in Kandahar.

• Nearly 70 percent believed KFZ projects had reduced poppy cultivation in their communities and more than 80 percent thought cultivation of licit crops would enhance economic growth and employment opportunities.
• According to survey findings, the best two licit alternative crops for poppy cultivation were pomegranates and wheat.

Results gathered from the survey enabled Lapis Communications and their partners to improve their understanding of project interventions and inform the design of future KFZ projects.

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