 Daniel Milner Dan works for the RHoMIS team in Bristol, UK, processing and analysing household survey data to provide insight. He has a background in economic geography and development both in the UK and internationally. Editor: We are pleased to welcome a new member to the RHoMIS team, Dan Milner. Joining us at the end of 2019, Dan has already injected fresh energy, expertise and a passion for GIS and data management. In this brief article he shares a little of his background, where he has already used RHoMIS extensively in his Postgraduate studies, as well as what he hopes to achieve in the role.
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 As 2019 draws to a close, the RHoMIS team are celebrating a productive and enjoyable year. We have seen RHoMIS grow to a new level of establishment, with clearer systems and communications, and another 10,000 rural households interviewed. This is a short blog article as we wrap up the year and prepare for some well-earned rest. Our team are on holiday for the rest of December and early January. Please bear with us while we take this time of rest and reflection with family. We will be back from January 6. 2020 promises to start in the same vein as 2019, with new surveys already scheduled for Vietnam, Cambodia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Mali! Finally, thank you to all of the community of practice who have added to RHoMIS over 2019. It has been a pleasure working with colleagues and associates both new and old. We look forward to continued teamwork and collaboration next year.
Here at RHoMIS HQ, we are busy preparing the tool for a significant version update. Having been working with version 1.5 for most of 2019, from January 2020 onwards we are upgrading the entire RHoMIS system to version 1.6. Unlike the incremental survey improvements in the past, the current update is wider ranging and a key step towards bringing together the various elements of the toolkit into a coherent whole. We have updated the core survey, built a super-short “minimal” core survey, updated all the optional modules, coherently packaged our data processing scripts (for the core content), updated our training materials, and will be updating our website to make all of these easily accessible.
Editor: Léo has been an invaluable member of the RHoMIS team, adding a thorough systems-thinking approach to our data analysis, skilled programming, and on top of that, an amazing fun attitude full of adventure! As he is begins his RHoMIS-related PhD, we have asked him to mark the transition with a new blog post. We are grateful for all he has given RHoMIS so far, and wish him the best as he begins these further studies.
Our RHoMIS work has led to a unique harmonised database of quantitative information on smallholder livelihoods in low and middle income countries (now containing interviews of more than 28,000 households in 31 countries). We are now in full force analysing these data to identify pathways towards food security, and underpin strategic studies trying to identify the drivers of diverse diets and possible trade offs between agricultural production intensification and key welfare indicators like gender equity. What is less known is that our RHoMIS research actually originated from work focusing on bringing together existing household survey data from a wide range of projects and using those data to identify common indicators of food security, and farm livelihood characteristics determining food security.
RHoMIS is being utilised in a nutrition study led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (TNUAF). The study aims to compare diet diversity data collected for the immediate past with data collected from the same household over a 12 month recall period.
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