Case Study: The HALO Trust achieves streamlined mobile data collection and a 70% reduction in manual reporting with Fulcrum

Clearing landmines and other explosive remnants of war in countries recovering from conflict

The HALO Trust, a non-profit that has cleared landmines and explosive remnants since 1988, faced a persistent challenge in Cambodia where roughly 1,000 km² remain contaminated and civilian casualties continue. Demining operations require detailed GIS mapping, risk-education records, post-clearance monitoring and reporting to authorities and donors, but the program generated about 3,000 pages of paper reports each month, creating delays, data-entry errors, and inefficiencies.

HALO implemented Fulcrum mobile data collection with dual-language Khmer–English apps on inexpensive Android tablets, transferring about 70% of the paperwork to digital form and exporting data into HALO’s database and the national XML format. The change cut manual entry, freed GIS staff to focus on data quality and analysis, enabled one-off studies and broader use across multiple countries, improved response to call-outs, and provided offline maps on devices costing under $200 to better target clearance and community support.

The HALO Trust