Third-Party Evaluations of CommCare
- Gillian Javetski
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- Krinda Wernicke
- Amie Vaccaro
In addition to CommCare's Evidence Base that speaks to its impact on frontline programs, users, and clients, there are also a number of third-party technology evaluations of CommCare. Many of these include comparisons of CommCare against other digital systems in terms of features, pricing, reach, maturity, security, etc.
Third-Party Evaluations
CommCare supports a strong evidence base of peer-reviewed publications. Together, these studies demonstrate CommCare’s positive impact on strengthening frontline healthcare systems, frontline worker capabilities, and client results. This resource lives as an online, up-to-date repository, with new studies being shared and published frequently.
In addition to evaluating its impact, A designated Global Good, CommCare has been evaluated in comparison to other digital systems across a variety of factors, specifically:
Capabilities: Various research organizations have evaluated CommCare against other digital systems for specific sector uses, with a focus on its feature set. CommCare has come out as a top 1 or 2 tool for agriculture (compared against 17 tools total), Ebola response (58 tools total), and COVID-19 (9 tools total).
Reach: Other researchers have conducted broader landscape assessments of entire industries to better understand the reach of tools. These found that CommCare is both the most popular mobile platform among frontline health workers in developing countries (out of 140 studied programs) as well as the most commonly used for nutrition-related digital interventions (16 out of 53 programs).
Maturity: An analysis found that CommCare is the 53rd most valuable open source repository on GitHub (out of 96 million). Another found that CommCare was one of two tools graded 100% for Product Maturity (out of 24 tools when this was written).
Cost Savings: Beyond its technical capabilities and reach, a subset of studies have looked at CommCare’s impact on program costs - some are which are covered in https://dimagi.atlassian.net/wiki/x/bzDKfw. Two separate studies found that launching CommCare would save the state of Colorado $15 million over 3 years, and between $830,000 and $1.7 million a year for a government program in Burkina Faso.
Full List
You can access a full list of CommCare’s Third-Party Evaluations here: