NGO Impact Data Collection App

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Havuta provides a blockchain-based mobile app to help NGOs dramatically lower the costs of impact data collection for the programs they run; providing data for NGOs and transparency for donors.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

Between 2 founders and a CTO: 6 years of experience in the NGO sector, including M&E consulting, 2 years experience implementing software for donor agencies like USAid, and 2 years experience working at the donor level, specifically AusAID.

[GENERAL] Requested funds in USD.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Havuta’s data collection app allows NGOs to quickly collect data from the beneficiaries of their programs through digitally delivered surveys and verify their impact through blockchain transactions. Beneficiaries are rewarded a digitally delivered incentive for completing surveys, also using blockchain and Havuta’s native HIE tokens. 

Our primary target market is the health and education segments of the development sector, which is roughly US$29.3 billion/year in size. To err on the conservative side, this excludes non-DAC aid ($60 billion.annually) and U.S.-based informal philanthropic, corporate, and household charitable donations ($390 billion/annually).

The United Nations estimates that there were about 35,000 large established NGOs in 2000. According to the OECD, in 2017 total gross publicly funded aid given by OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member countries and EU Institutions to developing countries was $160 billion. Of the total development funding granted to developing nations, 18.3% was targeted to health and education. Development actors currently spend between 5 and 8% of their budgets measuring their outcomes to produce impact evaluations: giving it a size between $1.465 to $2.344 billion annually.

The impact for NGOs will be enormous. We aim to cut M&E (monitoring and evaluation) budgets so that smaller NGOs can have access to impact data, larger NGOs can do more impact studies and longer-term studies, and effective impact-oriented organisations will be able to raise more funds because their impact is verified by blockchain technology and is transparent. 

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

This proposal will bring potentially millions of new users to the Cardano network. Major NGOs work with hundreds of thousands to millions of people. For example, Action Against Hunger works with 8 million people in Nigeria alone at any given point.

The proposal will also place Cardano at the forefront of the blockchain-for-impact and SDG narrative, potentially attracting more dApps to its platform in the future as entities/applications coalesce around the same network.

The incentive mechanism we have also allows for DeFi applications to be added to our App in the future.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Risks include a lack of funding as we develop market readiness and adoption in the market. The development sector can be slow to adapt to change, and there is a risk that those in the sector will be resistant to change. In order to address this, we will be (and currently are) working with large, reputable organisations in trial implementations of the Havuta app for data collection on a pro bono basis, in order to develop our profile in the sector and validate our product offering. 

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The app is already in Beta and writes to an EOSIO network (Telos). It is also in-use on a trial basis. Further work is required to develop the app, integrate with Cardano and expand market reach:

Develop the App further for market readiness (including expansion of the analytics package and capabilities): 6 months

Integration with the Cardano network: 3 months

Business Development/Marketing to the sector: 6 months

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Develop the App further for market readiness (including expansion of the analytics package and capabilities): 6 months

Integration with the Cardano network: 3 months

Business Development/Marketing to the sector: 6 months

2 backend developers: $151,200

1 front end developer: $75,600

Marketing/business development: $226,800

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Fabien Dutasta: 6 years of experience in the NGO sector, including M&E consulting, 3 years at Havuta.

Frank Nankivell: 2 years experience implementing software for donor agencies like USAid, 2 years at Havuta

Paul de Havilland: 2 years experience working at the donor level, specially AusAID, 4 years experience in fundraising for NGOs, 3 years at Havuta

2 backend developers to be sourced externally on a contract basis

1 frontend developer to be sourced externally on a contract basis

1-2 business development executives to be sourced on a contract basis

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Possibly.

If successful we may not need to return to Catalyst, but if we gain some positive traction but not fast enough, we may require funding to continue.

We also plan to implement DeFi applications in the future to serve the same beneficiaries, in which case we would return with a follow-up proposal.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Development Updates (with improvement and integration metrics)

Uptake by NGOs, social organisations, donors, research companies in the field (no. of new clients, etc)

Active users (How many beneficiaries each client has)

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

A more complete, market-ready app with analytics for data analysis

100k + users within 2 years, among 4-5 large/medium-sized NGOs

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new proposal.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG subgoals:

10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies

11.3 By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries

11.c Support least developed countries, including through financial and technical assistance, in building sustainable and resilient buildings utilizing local materials

12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

12.b Develop and implement tools to monitor sustainable development impacts for sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children

16.3 Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

17.1 Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

17.19 By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes

3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

3.c Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States

4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes

4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre‑primary education so that they are ready for primary education

4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

4.a Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all

4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States

5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all

6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations

6.a By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies

6.b Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management

8.1 Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries

8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

8.4 Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead

8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.6 By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

8.8 Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States

9.b Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

10.1.1 Growth rates of household expenditure or income per capita among the bottom 40 per cent of the population and the total population

12.b.1 Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability

16.3.2 Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population

3.9.2 Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services)

3.c.1 Health worker density and distribution

4.1.1 Proportion of children and young people (a) in grades 2/3; (b) at the end of primary; and (c) at the end of lower secondary achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in (i) reading and (ii) mathematics, by sex

4.1.2 Completion rate (primary education, lower secondary education, upper secondary education)

4.2.1 Proportion of children aged 24–59 months who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being, by sex

4.3.1 Participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, by sex

4.4.1 Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill

4.5.1 Parity indices (female/male, rural/urban, bottom/top wealth quintile and others such as disability status, indigenous peoples and conflict-affected, as data become available) for all education indicators on this list that can be disaggregated

4.a.1 Proportion of schools offering basic services, by type of service

4.c.1 Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications, by education level

5.5.2 Proportion of women in managerial positions

6.2.1 Proportion of population using (a) safely managed sanitation services and (b) a hand-washing facility with soap and water

8.1.1 Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita

8.2.1 Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person

8.4.2 Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP

8.5.1 Average hourly earnings of employees, by sex, age, occupation and persons with disabilities

8.5.2 Unemployment rate, by sex, age and persons with disabilities

8.6.1 Proportion of youth (aged 15–24 years) not in education, employment or training

8.9.1 Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate

9.a.1 Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure

9.b.1 Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added