A survey is only as trustworthy as its questions, its sample and the care taken with the people who answer it. Poorly designed instruments waste budgets, and careless handling of personal data can harm respondents and expose organisations to regulators and donors. Five days give research and programme teams the skills to avoid both problems. You write clear questionnaires, choose a sampling approach, pilot instruments and translate them for the field.
Hands-on labs then build forms in KoBoToolbox and ODK with skip logic, constraints, GPS and photo capture, followed by tablet deployment, enumerator training and daily quality checks. Compliance topics include informed consent, ethics review, data minimisation, anonymisation, secure storage, retention and sharing agreements, with attention to data protection principles that apply across the region. Participants practise data cleaning and an audit trail from raw submissions to the final dataset. The programme suits M&E officers, researchers, survey managers, statisticians, programme staff and field supervisors in NGOs, government, universities and consultancies. Classroom, online and in-house options are available, with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can design, program and supervise a compliant mobile survey from start to finish.
Organisations now collect household, facility and community data on phones and tablets as a matter of routine. Mobile tools have cut the cost and delay of paper surveys, but they have also made it easy to gather sensitive information at scale without the safeguards that research ethics and data protection law demand. Donors and partners increasingly check how data is collected, stored and shared, and weak practice can end a project or a partnership.
This programme combines technical survey craft with the governance that must surround it. Participants begin with the research question and the type of data needed, then learn questionnaire design, question wording, scales, sampling basics and pilot testing. They move to building electronic forms, configuring servers, managing devices and users, and running fieldwork with real-time monitoring. Compliance topics run alongside: consent procedures, protection of children and vulnerable groups, confidentiality, access control and incident response if data is lost.
Teaching is lab-based, with a continuous case in which each team plans a survey, programmes the form, collects test data and prepares a clean, documented dataset. Participants finish with a protocol, a data management plan and a checklist they can reuse on future studies.
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
Each participant takes away practical outputs, including:
Participants learn by running a small survey cycle on their own devices:
Day 1: Research Questions and Questionnaire Design
Day 2: Sampling and Survey Planning
Day 3: Building Mobile Data Collection Forms
Day 4: Ethics, Consent and Data Protection
Day 5: Fieldwork Quality and Data Management
The programme is intended for people who plan, run or approve data collection, such as:
A CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy is awarded to participants who attend all sessions and complete the lab exercises and the closing protocol.
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By the end of the Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools programme, you'll be able to translate a research question into a measurable set of survey variables, write clear, unbiased questions and organise them into a logical questionnaire, select an appropriate sampling method and calculate a sample size, and build and test mobile data collection forms with validation and skip logic. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The programme is intended for people who plan, run or approve data collection, such as: Monitoring and evaluation officers and managers, Survey managers and field supervisors, Researchers and research assistants in universities and think tanks, Statisticians and data analysts, Programme officers in NGOs and development projects, Public sector planners and statistics office staff, Data protection and compliance officers, and Consultants who conduct baseline and endline studies.
Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course typically runs as 5 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools starts October 12, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course is pitched at intermediate professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Governance and Compliance in Data Collection, Survey Design & Mobile Tools Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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