No guesswork, no long wait times.
Hear what communities need
Collect feedback from residents through accessible mobile channels and identify the issues they want addressed.
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PRIORITIES
Identify the issues residents consider urgent
Programme plans often begin with institutional assumptions about what a community needs. Residents may place greater importance on problems that appear smaller in administrative reports.
Canvass asks people to describe and compare the issues affecting their daily lives. Organisations can see which needs residents place first before allocating resources or designing a programme.
Understand how each issue affects daily life
A list of community priorities provides direction, but it does not show how a problem affects households or service users. That context determines what an effective response must change.
Conversational surveys allow residents to explain the consequences in their own words. Canvass analyses the responses and groups recurring experiences for programme teams to review.
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CONTEXT
03
COVERAGE
Reach residents across the target area
Community research can miss people who live far from meeting venues or cannot attend at a scheduled time. The resulting evidence may reflect the most accessible residents rather than the wider population.
Canvass reaches participants through familiar mobile channels and supports localised dialects. Organisations can extend the study across neighbourhoods or regions without requiring residents to travel.
Compare needs across community groups
Residents in the same area may experience public services differently because of location, livelihood, age, or access constraints. A community-wide average can conceal those differences.
Canvass collects only the respondent details required by the study and compares priorities across defined groups. Programme teams can see which needs affect the wider population and which ones require a targeted response.
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GROUPS
05
DECISIONS
Connect local priorities to programme choices
Resource decisions require a clear link between the need people reported and the intervention an organisation proposes. Broad consultation summaries often lose that connection.
Canvass presents reported needs and supporting explanations in dashboards. Teams can use the evidence to choose delivery priorities and record which community finding informed each decision.
Keep community evidence available for review
Residents and programme leaders need a reliable account of who participated and what the study asked. Without that trace, later reviews cannot determine whether the programme responded to the intended population.
Canvass authenticates responses and preserves the research context required for assessment. Organisations can compare programme decisions with the needs residents originally described.
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ACCOUNTABILITY
No guesswork, no long wait times.