L’Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires recrute un Consultant (agronome) pour la collecte de données de base, Ouganda
Background
As part of a OneCG initiative on testing behavioral constraints to seed varietal turnover in Uganda, we will test a production side intervention (trial seed packs) and a consumer side intervention (promoting nutritional traits) in Eastern Uganda over the course of two agricultural seasons. The study will start with a baseline survey in the beginning of 2023. At that point, the seed trial pack intervention will also be rolled out. A second round of data collection will happen in August 2023, at which point the consumer intervention will be implemented. In February 2024, an endline survey will be organized to measure the impact of both interventions on the adoption of improved seed varieties. This contact only covers the baseline survey data collection part (running from December 2022 up to April 2023).
Approach: The study will consist of a baseline survey of about 3300 farmers in eastern Uganda.
(A) The main elements of the work of the assistant consultant consists of
- Assisting the lead consultant and IFPRI Research Assistants in the collection of quantitative data of about 3300 farmers to be collected using tablets running ODK.
- Provide agronomic expertise in development and translation of questionnaire
- Assist in training for enumerators and pre-test of questionnaire in selected districts
- Liaise with government officials and community leaders to get necessary buy in and cooperation
- Any other duties as assigned by PI or co-Pis.
Requirements
- Background in agronomy
- Excellent knowledge of local context and policy environment
- Extensive experience in data collection
Deliverables
- ODK implementation of the questionnaires
- Baseline dataset
- Report on the data collection exercise (issues encountered and how they were resolved)
Timeline
The work is expected to be completed within 33 days tentatively scheduled in December 2022-April 2023.