Assignment name:

Impact of the Zambia Access to ACT Initiative (ZAAI)

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

US $ 225,424.35

 

Country: Zambia

Location within country: 7 Districts across Zambia, including Chadiza, Chama, Chinsali, Kasama, Lundazi, Mwense, and Nyimba

Duration of assignment (months): 3



 

Name of Client: The World Bank

Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 76

 

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

Monique Vledder, The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA

Email: [email protected], Phone: +1 (202) 458-2518

 

Start date (month/year): March 2011

Completion date (month/year): June 2011

No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 76

 

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);

Doreen Goma – Master Trainer/Field Manager

Alice Tembo – Master Trainer/Field Manager

Aaron Phiri – Sampling Frame/GIS Specialist

Liseteli Ndiyoi – IT/GIS Specialist

 

Description of Project:

The Zambia Access to ACT Initiative (ZAAI) follow-up survey was the second wave of a rigorous, randomized impact evaluation designed to assess whether paired public-sector supply chain improvements and private-sector measures to improve affordability and access to ACTs increase timely access to first-line malaria treatment, using high-quality household and community data to quantify effectiveness (and cost-effectiveness) and to capture community effects. The scope was explicitly set as a two-wave design: baseline data collected in 2009 and a follow-up round fielded in March/April 2011, with final datasets due by end-June 2011 (contract end date 30 June 2011). The follow-up quantitative component targeted 1,575 households drawn from 105 communities (15 households per community) across seven districts—Chadiza, Chama, Chinsali, Kasama, Lundazi, Mwense, and Nyimba—from complete household listings in selected PSUs. In parallel, the study included a community-level survey covering 105 sampled communities across the seven districts to document contextual and community factors relevant to malaria treatment access and program effects.

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

Under Contract/PO 7158875/7158879 for the ZAAI follow-up household and community survey, Palm Associates was responsible for delivering the full end-to-end survey implementation package—working closely with the World Bank impact evaluation team—by recruiting and contracting field staff (including interviewers capable of administering the medical/biomarker module such as RDT/haemoglobin testing and anthropometry), supervisors and data-entry operators; providing all logistics and equipment (office and computers, transport/per diem, and procurement of survey consumables such as GPS units, anthropometric tools and biomarker kits); preparing and delivering training materials plus interviewer and supervisor manuals (building on baseline materials) and conducting training; executing high-quality household and community interviews; and running the full data workflow—tight field questionnaire controls, a computerized CSPro double-entry template, supervised and verified data entry, and computation of sampling weights after implementing the agreed sampling steps (PSU selection, listing, selection of survey and replacement households). The contract’s performance milestones also tie Palm’s responsibilities to delivery of formatted questionnaires, training, fieldwork completion, and submission of all deliverables within the agreed period (commencing 4 May 2011 and expiring 30 July 2011).