Assignment name: Impact of Social Protection Programs on Access and Use of HIV Services
| Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): GB £76,000
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Country: Zambia Location within country: Luapula province
| Duration of assignment (months): 5
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Name of Client: • United Nations Partnership for the Rights of People with Disability (UNPRPD)
| Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 60
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Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address: | David Chipanta Email: [email protected]
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Start date (month/year): May 2019 Completion date (month/year): September 2019
| No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 60
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Name of associated Consultants, if any: N/A
| Name of senior professional staff of your consulting firm/organization involved and designation and/or functions performed (e.g. Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader): Prof. Gelson Tembo – Survey Coordinator/Principal Investigator (PI); Nathan Tembo – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Chisangu Matome – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager |
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Description of Project: The study was conducted in four districts of Luapula province of Zambia and aimed at investigating the relationship between social protection programs and HIV services access especially for the disabled. The study sample was drawn from households receiving Social Cash Transfers from the Government that live in Community Welfare Assistance Committee (CWACs) villages. A total sample of 2,129 or 25 per CWAC in 90 CWACs was randomly selected using Probably Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling.
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Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment: Trained enumerators administered a household questionnaire to the household head and all household members aged 16 years or older in the Bemba language after obtaining informed consent from every respondent. The respondents were surveyed on socio-demographic characteristics, maternal and HIV service use, experiences of sexual intimate partner violence, disability status, and receipt of social cash transfers.
Palm’s responsibilities included: i) preparing lists of households in Excel and Stata and conducting two-stage randomized cluster sampling of communities and households, ii) recruiting, training, and managing enumerators, iii) reporting on survey progress and data quality, and iv) producing final report including descriptive statistics.
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