DEADLINE: 30TH MARCH, 2023 03:59
WORLD BANK NIGERIA
REQUEST FOR PROPOSL FOR DATA COLLECTION SUPPORT FOR THE IMPACT EVALUATION OF A LIVELIHOODS SUPPORT INTERVENTION IN NIGERIA
SOLICITATION NUMBER: 0002000666
INSTITUTION: IBRD/IDA
ASSIGNMENT LOCATION: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) impact evaluation study to investigate the effect of a livelihoods support intervention in Nigeria.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, women’s labor market outcomes lag behind their male counterparts. Reasons underlying this gap include, but not limited to, limited access to education, skills, and information among women, restrictive social norms, discrimination on behalf of employers and institutions. Further, in contexts where the HIV/AIDS epidemic is prevalent, women’s participation in the workforce could be even lower due to poor health, stigma, and the added burden of caring for HIV-infected children and/or other family members. In this light, offering training in marketable vocational skills, alongside improving access to capital and social networks can help boost women’s labor market outcomes.
The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is designing an RCT evaluation that seeks to assess the effect of a vocational program offered by Pro-Health International (PHI) to women affected by HIV/AIDS in Bauchi and Adamawa states of Nigeria. The evaluation will measure the impact of the vocational program in strengthening women’s socio-economic outcomes, as well as the impact of add-on interventions to the program. The added interventions include transfer of a productive assets, a buddy program, and a gender norms training offered to women participating in the vocational training program as well as their partners.
The research team also plans to conduct a qualitative study to evaluate the implementation aspects and beneficiaries’ perceptions of the vocational training program. Specifically, the qualitative research will conduct a qualitative data collection to provide in-depth knowledge of the buddy program component of the training program. The qualitative study aims to understand the implementing aspects of the buddy program and provide a better understanding of how its implementation complemented with the technical training affected beneficiaries. Specifically, through the qualitative study, we aim to learn about beneficiaries’ perceptions, the strengths and weaknesses of the buddy add-on intervention.
As part of a rigorous evaluation of this intervention, GIL is looking for a qualified contractor to conduct
(1) the follow up survey of program beneficiaries and a comparison group and
(2) the qualitative data collection. For the follow up survey, approximately 2,887 women will be surveyed across 15 LGAs from rural Bauchi and Adamawa states.
The LGAs from Bauchi state are Bogoro, Dass, Tafawa Balewa, Toro, Ningi, Misau, and Katagum. The LGAs in Adamawa state are Numan, Demsa, Fufore, Girei, Gombi, Hong, Mayo-belwa, and Song. The survey will include modules on vocational training participation, technical and non-technical knowledge, employment outcomes, health outcomes and wellbeing. For the qualitative data collection, approximately 60 interviews will be conducted and 15-20 small group (of 3-4 women) discussions.
Working under the supervision of the World Bank, the selected firm will be expected to:
(i) pilot quantitative and qualitative questionnaires, edit them as needed, translate and back-translate them, and program them into a CAPI software
(ii) develop a high-quality system of quantitative and qualitative data collection;
(iii) hire, contract, and pay interviewers, supervisors, data editors and back checkers;
(iv) collect quantitative and qualitative data from respondents in the sample provided by the GIL research team using tablets and other devices;
(v) organize field visits, high-frequency checks of the incoming data, and regular questionnaire backchecks throughout the duration of the survey to ensure the quality of data collected;
(vi) deliver raw data to the GIL research team every 3 days throughout the data collection period, in a format compatible with STATA;
(vii) deliver a reports on the overall progress of the quantitative data collection that contains data compilation, backup methods and data processing, qualitative methods and a final clean STATA-compatible dataset;
(viii) deliver a report on the overall progress of the qualitative data collection that summarize all qualitative data collection activities and document the data collection process;
(ix) deliver the qualitative data collection tools for individual interviews and/or focus group discussions and transcripts and audio recordings of all qualitative data collected through the individual interviews and focus group discussions in Microsoft Word.
Interested firms should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services. The shortlisting criteria are:
(i) experience in electronic data collection;
(ii) experience in data collection on vocational and livelihood programs’ outcomes;
(iii) experience administering questionnaires to vulnerable populations including those living with or caring for those living with HIV/AIDS, and with sensitively conducting survey work in the community while protecting the privacy of the respondents
(iv) experience and ability to manage logistics, as well as the required equipment and staff necessary the carry out the survey; (v) experience in creating and managing databases;
(vi) experience conducting large-scale surveys in Northern Nigeria;
(vii) experience in conducting qualitative data collection with vulnerable or stigmatized groups, focus groups and in depth interviews with participants, and key informants interviewers
(viii) ability to begin this work as soon as possible.
The expression of interest may include brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. The description of similar assignments should include precise information on sample sizes and type of data collected (quantitative or qualitative, indicators included, etc.). Please adhere to a page limit of 10 pages while providing your response.
These are estimates of the amount of data that will be collected. The actual types of data may vary depending on the final research design.
