Toolkits and guides
10 free playbooks, guides, and reference collections for running a frontline digital program. Most are tool-agnostic, and none of them need a CommCare subscription.
The evidence behind CommCare
130+ studies and independent evaluations of CommCare in frontline programs, 120 of them peer-reviewed. Searchable by author, country, and sector.
Playbooks
Step-by-step guidance for running a program, written from what has worked across deployments.
The Data Management and Security Playbook
Managing and securing data across every stage of the data lifecycle, from the team behind CommCare.
Read it ›The Ultimate Four-Step Guide to Centralizing Digital Data Collection
Build a task force, assess needs, choose a tool, and roll it out across your organization.
Read it ›The Complete Guide to Mobile Data Collection
Choose a tool, design surveys, build and test your app, deploy to the field, train your team, and sustain the program.
Read it ›Design and adaptation guides
How to make a digital tool land with the people who actually use it.
Making Resilience Resonate
Adapting, translating, and user-testing the Resilience Message Program so it resonates with health workers in your context.
Read it ›Your ultimate accessibility guide
Designing accessible digital tools for all users, including those with visual, motor, or cognitive disabilities.
Read it ›Choosing a tool
Independent and partner-authored frameworks for evaluating digital tools, CommCare included.
Inside UNICEF’s Digital Tool Selection Guidebook for Health Campaigns
Dimagi’s read on the UNICEF guidebook for health campaigns, which recognizes CommCare as a leading tool.
Read it ›Prosper Global’s 4-Step Framework for Choosing Digital Monitoring Tools at Scale
How a 12-country evaluation and a global tender became a reusable framework other organizations can follow.
Read it ›Teaching and preparedness
Material built to be handed to someone else: a classroom, a ministry, a response team.
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