Beneficiary Registration & Attendance Monitoring

The Kano Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme is a joint initiative of the Kano State Government, the World Bank and DFID/ESSPIN.

The Kano CCT pilot programme aims to increase school attendance of young girls in grades 4 to 6 in selected rural communities in Kano State, Nigeria. A Conditional Cash Transfer programme uses monetary incentives to encourage positive behaviour by making payments to prospective beneficiaries in exchange for them undertaking agreed upon activities, such as attending school.

Mobenzi Researcher Implementation

The initial phase of the project involved the collection of the baseline beneficiary data. Mobenzi Researcher was used by fieldworkers to collect biographical information on over 13,000 potential beneficiaries across 300 schools.

During 2011, fieldworkers will make random visits to schools to capture attendance records of selected beneficiaries. Using the Mobenzi Researcher API, a simple mobile-based system was developed which allows fieldworkers to request a class register from their mobile phone. From the initial baseline data collected, the system responds by delivering the requested class list to their handset in the form of a simple mobile survey prepopulated with all the registered students for the requested grade.

Fieldworkers are able to indicate whether a student is present or absent as the survey iterates through each girl for the relevant grade. Once the survey is complete and the submission uploads, a full attendance register is automatically emailed in Excel format to operational personnel who can make use of this information for determining disbursements.

Leveraging Mobenzi Researcher's smart client architecture - which allows data to be captured without network reception - fieldworkers are able to request several class lists before venturing into areas with poor or no network reception. Upon returning to an area with reception, any pending data is uploaded.