TEGA is a mobile based, peer-to-peer research app used by some of the world’s leading development organisations to provide safer, faster, more scalable and authentic research around the world. 

TEGA empowers adolescent girls to conduct research, via innovative mobile technology, to provide safer, faster, more scalable and authentic research into young people's lives around the world.

In order to drive meaningful change, accurate data and insights are required to understand challenges and inform programming. However, conventional research methods can have serious limitations - they can be slow, expensive and intimidating.  

Girl Effect wanted to tackle this challenge head on. Girls aged 18-24, living within these communities, are employed and trained via bespoke smartphones to become Market Research Society (MRS) qualified researchers and Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors (TEGAs). 

Insights collected by TEGAs help organisations better understand the reality of girls’ lives, meaning better designed, more targeted development programmes that have real impact. TEGA is now operating in hard to reach communities in Nigeria, Malawi, Rwanda, India, Bangladesh and the USA.

The TEGA app enables surveys to be sent direct to the girls themselves, so that they can conduct research and send the findings back to Girl Effect’s highly secure, multimedia content hub which houses the data and instantly analyses it programmatically.

Although still a relatively new concept, TEGA has won multiple awards and endorsements for its innovative research methodology and technology.