Assignment name:

Endline survey for the Zambia Health Results-Based Financing (ZHRBF) project

Approx. value of the contract (in current US$):

US $ 593,993

 

Country: Zambia

Location within country: 24 Districts across Zambia, including Mumbwa; Kapiri Mposhi; Chibombo; Lufwanyama; Masaiti; Mpongwe; Lundazi; Nyimba; Chadiza; Mwense; Kawambwa; Milenge; Mporokoso; Chilubi; Chinsali; Isoka; Nakonde; Mpulungu; Mufumbwe; Mwinilunga; Chavuma; Siavonga; Namwala; Mazabuka; Gwembe; Itezhi-Tezhi; Kazungula; Senanga; Kalabo; and Shangombo

Duration of assignment (months): 5



 

Name of Client: The World Bank

Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 148

 

Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address:

Jumana Qamruddin, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA

Email: [email protected], Phone: +1.202.473.1118

 

Start date (month/year): April 2014

Completion date (month/year): September 2014

No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 148

 

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); Alefa Banda – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Nathan Tembo – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Chiluba Chikoti – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Chibamba Mwansakilwa – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Liseteli Mukelabai Ndiyoi – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager

 

Description of Project:

The subcontract defines the assignment as the Zambia Health Results-Based Financing (HRBF) follow-up household and community survey, commissioned to generate rigorous, comparable evidence for the World Bank’s impact evaluation of Zambia’s RBF pilot—an initiative funded through the Norwegian Health Results Innovation Grant to improve maternal and child health by strengthening district and facility performance and incentivizing communities. The study was a single follow-up wave conducted after two years of RBF implementation, designed to measure changes in key household characteristics and health-related outcomes (including women’s care-seeking around pregnancy/childbirth and anthropometry for under-fives) while also capturing community-level conditions. In scope, the survey targeted up to 4,500 rural households—pre-screened to include women with a pregnancy outcome in the preceding two years—spread across 24 districts, with 20 eligible households sampled per enumeration area after a full listing, and community interviews conducted in up to 800 communities visited across the same districts. The contractual implementation window ran from April to September 2014, with core delivery milestones set for instrument adaptation and pretesting (April–May), field procedures and piloting (by end-May), field completion reporting (by end-July), database completion (end-August), and final datasets and summary reporting (by end-September 2014). ​

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

Palm Associates’ responsibilities were to deliver the complete end-to-end implementation of the Zambia RBF follow-up household and community survey: secure all required ethical clearance and local permissions/permits and comply with insurance, staffing and administrative formalities; adapt and pre-test the World Bank’s base questionnaires for the Zambian context; prepare, obtain approval for, and implement a detailed Field Procedure Plan (including listing, sampling, coding/IDs, replacement rules, logistics, supervision and spot-checks—at least 10% re-visits—and confidentiality/data transmission protocols); recruit, train and deploy the full survey team (project, field and data management plus supervisors, enumerators and data-entry staff); conduct a successful pilot and document it; execute the fieldwork across the sampled areas; and produce clean, well-documented, merge-ready databases (listing, household and community data), supported by a robust CSPro data-entry program, a data-entry protocol and data dictionary, plus weekly progress reporting, a field/manager’s completion report, and final data delivery and summary reporting.