Deadline: 5-Sep-22
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is seeking applications for Endline Survey Data Collection for a large-Scale Aquaculture program to support the generation and effective use of highquality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries.
The program aims to promote improved and sustainable aquaculture technology and management practices. These include carp polyculture with micronutrient-rich small indigenous fish species, clean, quality carp, and improved fish seed. Training tailored for smallholders will seek to bolster knowledge and raise awareness about better feeding practices, strategies for management of fish disease risks and optimization of seasonal food production aligned with market and consumer demands.
To empower rural women, the project will support female entrepreneurship, enhance women’s aquaculture and nutritional knowledge and work to expand women’s participation in different nodes of the aquaculture value chain, especially in downstream activities such as the marketing and trading of fish where women’s participation has been limited. Another important objective is to enhance women’s intrahousehold say in aquaculture and other decision-making domains.
Scope
The data collection firm will be required to undertake activities towards the collection of highquality data, following international best practices and protocols provided by 3ie. An indicative list of tasks is presented. The final scope of work will be determined during contract finalization.
- Conduct a comprehensive endline survey following the baseline sample (approximately 3700 households in 550 villages across approximately 176 unions)
- Conduct one round of telephonic surveys with local service providers (approximately 200 LSPs)
- Translate survey modules provided by 3ie into Bangla and back into English for quality assurance
- Undertake the surveys using the technology platforms indicated, such as hand-held electronic devices for data capture and real-time data transfer using digital servers for data storage, popularly called computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), and computer-assisted telephonic interviewing (CATI). 3ie already has survey instruments programmed into SurveyCTO from the baseline survey and would prefer the use of SurveyCTO for these rounds of the survey as well
- Develop, in accordance with 3ie’s specifications, electronic data collection modules to be run on hand-held electronic devices allowing for real-time data transfer to digital servers for storage and management. 3ie may provide specifications as needed. The modules should have built-in checks for data accuracy and completeness as it is entered and uploaded to servers. With some edits, the baseline survey instruments, as well as the programmed SurveyCTO application would inform translation and CAPI programming exercises for the endline instruments
- Pilot test CAPI/CATI-based surveys with at least 20 respondents/households in nonsample area to ensure the contextual and unbiased appropriateness of the questions and the technical functionality of the electronic platform and devices. After a pilot, work closely with the evaluation team at 3ie to adapt, revise and finalize the CAPI/CATI survey instruments and tools
- Develop a robust data entry application according to 3ie’s specification that satisfy at least the following conditions:
- To the greatest extent possible, the data entry program should conduct range and consistency checks, as the questionnaire is key punched
- Violations of these checks should lead to an immediate and transparent message sent to the key puncher, along with a practical method for correcting keypunch errors, and/or over-riding and documenting any answers that violate the range and consistency check rules
- The program should allow valid open-ended and “other” textual responses outside of the response options provided in the questionnaire
- Variable names generated by the program should correspond clearly and logically to the question labels used in the questionnaire
- Coding strategy should be developed to maintain consistent, unique identifiers for households for matching longitudinal data.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must meet these minimum requirements to be considered:
- Only legally registered organizations and/or their consortia of registered organizations, not individuals, may apply
- The survey partner should be based in Bangladesh and have relevant and extensive experience in conducting large-scale household surveys
- The partner should have demonstrated experience and expertise in conducting CAPI using tablets and/or hand-held devices and CATI, including managing all aspects of programming, data entry, ethical data storage and management, and data quality assurance
- The partner will have demonstrated expertise in collecting data related to:
- Household economic activities
- Aquaculture (desirable)
- Health status, including anthropometrics
- Women’s empowerment
- Food consumption and dietary intake
- Nutrition data
- The partner will have demonstrated expertise in data quality assurance, including conducting high-frequency checks during data collection, identifying and crossverification of data discrepancies and data cleaning
- The partner must have sufficient expert staff, including skilled male and female enumerators and supervisors, on board with full-time availability to work from the time of signing the contract with 3ie
- For-profit organizations are eligible to apply, but the indirect cost recovery is limited to 10 percent of direct costs.
For more information, visit https://3ieimpact.org/funding/request-proposals-endline-survey-data-collection-large-scale-aquaculture-program-bangladesh
