Survey Firm to Support Impact Evaluation of Continuum of Support – Geographically Bundled Activities Approach in Yemen Applicant Search Location
Egypt - Cairo Position Code
2025-041.004 Application Deadline
until filled The selected survey firm will work with the research team under supervision of IFPRI to finalize the design of the questionnaire to make sure it fits the Yemeni context. There will be two respondents for the survey, in most cases one female and one male respondent per household. The survey length per respondent will be approximately 45 -60 minutes long, with enumerators completing 3-4 questionnaires/households per day.
SPECIFIC TASKS Quantitative interviewers, supervisors and Quality Controllers will be recruited by the selected survey firm to participate in the training. All recruits selected for the survey should have previous experience, and all must be university graduates. At least one half of the interviewers should be women to allow for women respondents to be interviewed in their houses. Selection will be from amongst those who have previously worked closely with the survey firm in similar surveys. Knowledge and experience with the research topic and methodology, performance during in-house training, and field practice will all be considered for selection. Staff selection must also consider the interviewer’s familiarity and fluency in the local dialect of the expected respondents. Interviewers may be recruited from the same district as study communities to avoid long travel and ensure acceptability of females moving without mahrams but
must not be recruited from the same subdistrict as study communities.including going over the main modules of the survey questionnaires to ensure that they understand the content of the survey. The training will also focus specifically on a supervisor’s main responsibilities including how to enter a community, how to check the sample in the field, how to deal with non-response cases, how to organize a team’s work, how to use the tablet program, how to review the completed questionnaires before transferring to the designated Dropbox, how to solve duplicates if they occur, how to fill the fieldwork achievement sheet, how to problem-solve, etc. Travel costs for supervisors to Cairo should be included in the financial proposal.To ensure that the interviewers have understood the issues under examination, they will also receive training sessions on data collection. The training should occur in person or using a live video feed, at least 40 hours, and encompass a full review of the questionnaire with sufficient space with clarification of the purpose and meaning of each question, supervised practice with partners in going through the full questionnaire and using the CAPI, and assessment of interviewer readiness for fieldwork. Supervisors are required to participate in these training sessions. Trainings must be arranged so that either a local IFPRI consultant or IFPRI research staff in Cairo can attend remotely or in-person all trainings, in addition to any other members of the research team if required.· Role playing
Table 3: Phase I: 50 % of the original payment Payment
Upon receipt/ acceptance of the following deliverables by IFPRI Payment Breakdown
(Household Survey Budget) Date
Evidence of clearances and permits for implementing survey and other data collection activities, Pilot dataset, Pilot report, Translation of final questionnaire in local language, and Field Procedure Plan including Data Quality Assurance Plan
10%
Final raw dataset, final clean dataset, final field report, cleaning procedure documentation
40%
Table 4: Phase II: 50 % of the original payment
Payment Upon receipt/ acceptance of the following deliverables by IFPRI
Payment Breakdown (Household Survey Budget)
Date Evidence of clearances and permits for implementing survey and other data collection activities, Pilot dataset, Pilot report, Translation of final questionnaire in local language, and Field Procedure Plan including Data Quality Assurance Plan
10%
Final raw dataset, final clean dataset, final field report, cleaning procedure documentation
40%
Tenders must be submitted such that they are
received in soft copy before the
25th of March 2025 (Cairo time).They must include the requested documents and information and be submitted to Ms. Mariam Dawoud, m.dawoud@cgiar.org - with the subject heading “IFPRI – Yemen Geobundling Impact Evaluation Study ”.
The terms in this document are not binding and may be changed based on the tenderer’s proposal and IFPRI’s agreement or other circumstances. Any changes will then be reflected in the final Terms of Reference.
The Tender Dossier must include:
i. A proposal that describes the tenderer’s:
· Recruitment processes and procedures for supervisors, interviewers, and quality controllers.
· The type of tablets and 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
· A detailed timeline (consistent with Table 1), 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 trainings, tablets, etc.)
· Financial proposal, including a detailed budget
Proposals should not exceed 15 pages.
ii. The tenderer must also fill out Annex 1, Annex 2, and Annex 3 at the end of this document.
iii. A list of referees that may be contacted.
iv. Other relevant documents.
ANNEX 1: ORGANIZATION AND STAFFING
Please summarize the structure and composition of your team, including each members’ proposed position, their years of experience, educational background, specialist areas of knowledge, experience in the country or similar settings, as well as their degree of fluency in languages. You should list the main disciplines of the assignment, the key expert responsible, and proposed technical and support staff.
