Position Title: Endline data collection for the “Promoting Resilience and Food Security through Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC) in Africa”

Position Summary: Consultant will support the collection of endline survey data in Ethiopia. The survey will cover 1100 households in Adama, Dawo, and Woliso woredas. They will collect comprehensive information related various socioeconomic outcomes including agricultural input use, farm productivity, credit uptake, savings, household asset ownership, nutritional and food security outcomes, and gender empowerment outcomes based on IFPRI’s Abbreviated Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI).

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Call for proposals for endline data collection for the “Promoting Resilience and Food Security through Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC) in Africa” program in Ethiopia.

Summary:

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) aims to conduct an endline data collection exercise for the “Promoting Resilience and Food Security through Risk-Contingent Credit (RCC) in Africa” project in Ethiopia. RCC is a financial product that embeds within its structure an insurance protection where qualifying smallholder farmers are able to borrow agricultural production loans from formal financial institutions with minimum to no collateral. The long-term purpose of RCC is to promote resilience and investment opportunities among smallholders by promoting sustainable access to rural credit markets and enhancing agricultural investment. IFPRI aims to evaluate the impact of the program on several household outcomes. For this purpose, IFPRI seeks to hire a survey firm to conduct the endline survey. The survey will cover 1100 households in Adama, Dawo, and Woliso woredas. This survey aims to collect comprehensive information related various socioeconomic outcomes including agricultural input use, farm productivity, credit uptake, savings, household asset ownership, nutritional and food security outcomes, and gender empowerment outcomes based on IFPRI’s Abbreviated Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI). For this purpose, IFPRI seeks to hire a survey firm to conduct this face-to-face survey through a competitive bidding process. The selected survey firm would support IFPRI by administering the survey.

Background:

The survey would cover about 1100 households spread in three woredas in the Oromia region: Adama, Dawo, and Woliso. The household questionnaire will be designed to take approximately 3 hours on average and will be addressed to the man and woman decision makers of the household. The survey is planned to take place in May 2024.

The selected firm will be expected to conduct the following tasks:

· Obtain local administrative approvals for conducting all fieldwork activities.

· Mobilize farmers in preparation for the survey.

· Translate the questionnaires into the local language. All translations will then be checked by IFPRI staff.

· Recruit enumerators, supervisors and quality controllers and train them.

· Cater for the transportation and lodging needs of enumerators and supervisors and coordinating and managing related logistical operations.

· Deliver copies of all training materials used in preparing for the survey. Other documents developed to manage the fieldwork samples
may include interviewer assignment sheets and fieldwork achievement sheets.

· Program the questionnaire in a choice of CAPI system (this might include but not limited to SurveyBe, CSPro, Survey CTO etc).

· Take lead in pre-testing and piloting the survey. The pilot will be conducted to provide a final check on the questionnaires’ design and CAPI programming, as well as length of the interview.

· Use CAPI and tablets to collect data. The selected survey firm will also be required to incorporate use of this system and the tablets in the
various training sessions, including how to solve duplicate cases, how to review the work accomplished, and how to upload the data etc.

· Mandatory reporting of any issues or questions that arise during the survey to the IFPRI contact person and documented in the fieldwork report.

· Conduct call-backs and quality checks.

· Submit the raw data (as originally entered into CAPI at the time of the interview), a cleaned and labeled dataset, and full documentation
(including do files) of how the raw data was processed.

· Within 1 month after the fieldwork completion and data delivery, the selected survey firm will be available on a continuous basis to discuss with
IFPRI initial findings from the data analysis.

· Perform any other tasks related to making the survey a success as well as the ensuing the quality of data collected from it.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in conducting large quantitative household and community surveys.
• Demonstrate experience in collecting and analyzing women empowerment data (this could be Pro-WEAI, or A-WEAI).
• Demonstrated experience in effective interaction and coordination with collaborators and project partners.
• Experience in administering livelihood, agriculture, rural development, nutrition, and/or food security surveys.
• Experience in administering experiments and randomized control trials (RCTs)
• Experience with programing surveys and data entry and CAPI software packages.
• Demonstrated experience with obtaining appropriate local administrative permits and approvals.
• Demonstrated local presence and existing networks in the different locations in Ethiopia.
• Experience in collecting data in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
• Strong project management skills

Tender dossier requirements

The Tender Dossier must include a proposal that describes the tenderer’s:

· Questionnaire translation services and samples

· Recruitment processes and procedures for supervisors, interviewers, and quality controllers.

· The type of tablets and survey programming used.

· Trainings plan and design

· Pretest plan and design

· Main data collection plan and design

· Quality control standards and procedures for data collection

· Data cleaning and tabulation processes, standards, and procedures, including A-WEAI data

· A detailed timeline, with a mention of the firm’s exact availability during the contracting period

· All facilities and equipment to be provided by the tenderer (e.g., venue for training, tablets, etc.)

· Financial proposal, including a detailed budget describing cost across various items.

Proposals should not exceed 15 pages.

• A list of three referees that may be contacted.
• Other relevant documents.
• Only survey firms (not individuals) will be considered for this call.