IFPRI recrute un Cabinet de consultants pour effectuer des visites d’écoles et une enquête de base auprès des ménages dans les régions rurales d’Amhara et d’Oromia en Éthiopie
Background
The Strengthen PSNP5 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR II) Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Ethiopia is a five-year project (2021-2026) funded by USAID/BHA. This is a graduation model social protection program that supports implementation of the fifth phase of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP5) in Amhara and Oromia regions and provides complementary livelihood, nutrition, gender and climate resilience activities to strengthen the program and expand its impacts. The main objectives of SPIR II are to achieve sustained nutrition security, reduced risks to livelihoods, and strengthened social safety nets, reinforced by strong human capital, social cohesion, transformed social and gender dynamics, and a sustainable natural resources base. Under funding from USAID’s Food for Peace (FFP) Initiative and in close collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia, World Vision leads implementation of the SPIR II RFSA, in partnership with the Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA) and CARE. The SPIR II RFSA will serve nearly 500,000 PNSP clients in 19 of the most vulnerable woredas in Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia.
IFPRI is leading the SPIR II learning agenda in close collaboration with the implementation partners. The learning approach centers on an adaptive process with the first year of the project focused on testing and refinement. One of the evaluation studies will assess the effects of a secondary school scholarship on school progression and youth outcomes in the regions of Amhara and Oromia. This evaluation builds on findings from a qualitative youth assessment conducted as a formative study during the SPIR II refinement period. The impact study will evaluate an intervention designed to address barriers of secondary school attendance.
Statement of Work
IFPRI seeks a qualified survey firm to collect quantitative data to evaluate the secondary school scholarship intervention on a number of outcome members. The survey firm collaborator will partner with IFPRI to identify eligible youth through a process of school visits and review of beneficiary lists (Dec 2022– Jan 2023) and conduct the baseline survey (Feb 2023). The sample identification process and surveys will be conducted in an estimated 77 kebeles in Amhara and Oromia regions. All sampled households will be beneficiaries of the PSNP program.
The survey firm will first identify youth eligible to participate in the study by visiting primary schools that serve the sample kebeles to review school roster data and identify PSNP youth currently enrolled in seventh and eighth grade, or who completed eighth grade in the spring of 2022. Approximately 95 primary schools would be visited in this exercise. SPIR consortium partners will work with the survey firm to identify schools and obtain necessary government approvals. The survey firm will then conduct the baseline survey; this will entail visiting the households of all youth identified in the school visits as presumptively eligible for the intervention of interest for a further screening. Following the screening and the final determination of eligibility, a survey will be conducted with any eligible youth as well as a caretaker. (For any youth who are determined to be ineligible, the process will stop following the screening.) We estimate the full sample will include approximately 2,000 youth. The key survey modules will include household socioeconomic status, youth educational history, attitudes toward education, youth economic engagement, and cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and the estimated duration of the survey at the household will not exceed 90 minutes. The entire baseline survey is targeted for completion by March 15, 2023, with final reporting in April. Upon successful completion of the baseline survey, the collaborator may be invited to conduct a two-year post-intervention survey in 2024 following the same sample.
Activities:
- Translation of questionnaire into Affan Oromo and Amharic
- Assistance with submission of study protocol to a local IRB
- Develop a CAPI program for the screening and baseline questionnaires in SurveyCTO based on the draft versions of these questionnaires in Word; revisions to the CAPI as needed
- Prepare a detailed COVID-19 safety protocol to mitigate risk of transmission among the field team and study participants. This will include precautions to be followed during training, travel, and data collection.
- Procure all supplies for both phases of survey work including tablets for administering the survey
- Conduct preparatory work for both phases of survey work including:
- Selection of all field staff.
- Liaising with program staff and local officials on community entry and identifying sampled households
- Take primary responsibility for the enumerator trainings and fieldwork, including:
- Prepare field manuals to document field procedures, details on administering the surveys, data capture process, and code of conduct in line with ethical standards and respect for the wider study communities.
- Prepare schedule for enumerator trainings and data collection
- Organize and lead enumerator training
- Ensure all logistics for field work, including lodging, transportation, insurance.
- Seek approval from the Project Leader for any change in the training or field plans.
- [Note we anticipate that a separate training would be conducted for the school visit exercise and the full baseline survey, with the former requiring a much briefer training.]
- Develop and implement a system for data quality checks with audio audits of at least 5% of interviews, corrections and callbacks to be implemented during the survey fieldwork. Coordinate with the IFPRI team to run data quality checks as the data are collected. Contact respondents again to fix any missing or erroneous data.
- Develop a protocol for data capture and secure data storage to assure that data can be downloaded to a project Dropbox folder, that is secure and password protected, at least every other day; ensure timely delivery of the data collected.
- Following the completion of the first phase of field work, no formal report is required, but the partner will work with IFPRI to review and compile the lists of eligible youths in preparation for the survey.
- A report will be delivered following the baseline survey.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience conducting large-scale household surveys in Ethiopia
- Demonstrated experience recruiting and training enumerators
- Experience in building trust and good relations with village leaders, interviewees and communities
- Strong program management skills: demonstrated experience in successfully coordinating large field teams and managing deliverables.
- Demonstrated experience coding in SurveyCTO or similar CAPI program and using Stata for running data checks and managing datasets
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with international and national researchers
- Experience presenting results of studies to a wide audience
Proposals must include a comprehensive budget, a detailed description of the firm’s qualifications, and the curriculum vitae (CV) of person who will be managing the survey.