While it features real solutions, final content will undergo review by a technical working group and incorporate feedback from a validation workshop planned for December 2020. Please see these as examples only, and not a definitive list.
Solution /Innovation:

The Rural Household Multi Indicator Survey (RHoMIS)

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Organization:

International Livestock Research Institute

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Technical contact:
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Dr. James Hammond
Post Doctoral Fellow - Farming Systems Analysis, Sustainable Livestock Systems
International Livestock Research Institute
j.hammond@cgiar.org
Additional contacts:
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Dr. Mark van Wijk
Senior Scientist – Farming Systems Analysis, Sustainable Livestock Systems
International Livestock Research Institute
m.vanwijk@cgiar.org
More info, related website links:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0388-8

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/9M6EHS

https://doi.org/10.1038/S41597-020-0388-8
Related PDF documents:
Discover-RHoMIS-Sep19.pdf
RHoMIS_Modules_Booklet_single-pages.pdf
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Challenge

Hundreds of thousands of household surveys are carried out with African smallholder farmers every year, but much of the potential of the data is wasted. Survey datasets are often inaccessible, difficult to compare, or provide patchy coverage of important issues. Furthermore, the process of designing and carrying out the surveys is unnecessarily inefficient. Surveys are often designed anew for each project, and are often too long or too complex for farmers to easily answer. 

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Solution

The RHoMIS tool provides solutions to both of these problems. The carefully crafted survey tool is user friendly, rapid, digital, and covers many important issues in agricultural development using a modular system of questionnaires. The modules are standardized, meaning that they have been well tested and make use of internationally known indicators. There is also sufficient flexibility to tailor each survey to the local conditions
The resulting data can be uploaded direct from smartphone or tablet, and swiftly processed using already-written analysis code. Survey results can be available in a matter of hours. Due to the standardization of the questionnaires, the datasets can be easily harmonised and compiled, allowing researchers much greater leverage to draw conclusions from multiple study locations. With data-owner consent, the harmonised dataset is made open access at regular intervals.
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Impact

RHoMIS has been used in over 30 countries and by more than a dozen organisations. Over 30,000 farmers have been interviewed. The data collected has been used in project monitoring and evaluation, including impact studies and reporting to donors. The data has also been used to inform design of interventions targeted towards specific groups or farm types. To date, 14 peer-reviewed manuscripts have been published, exploring issues such as livestock environmental impacts, gendered impacts of commercialization, and differing drivers of diverse and nutritious diets. The open access aggregated dataset has been downloaded more than 4,000 times in under one year, which is evidence of use by the wider scientific community. The RHoMIS survey tool is available and ready for widespread use.  

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