Assignment name: Baseline survey for the Zambia Health Results-Based Financing (ZHRBF) project | Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): US $ 437,511 | |
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): 9 | |
Name of Client: The World Bank | Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 140 | |
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): April 2011 Completion date (month/year): December 2011 | No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 140 | |
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 – Project Coordinator/Principal Investigator (PI); Stephen Kabwe – Data Specialist; Tadeyo Lungu – Data Entry Manager; Alice Tembo – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Doreen Goma – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Nchimunya Nkombo – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager | |
Description of Project: The assignment was part of the World Bank–supported Zambia Health Results-Based Financing (HRBF) initiative, which introduced performance-based incentives and complementary support to strengthen maternal and child health services and improve the quality and use of routine health data, alongside a rigorous impact evaluation. In this context, Palm Associates’ role was to implement the household and community survey component as the baseline evidence platform for the evaluation: a one-wave quantitative household survey of up to 3,500 households (pre-screened to include women who had given birth within the past two years), paired with a community survey in up to 600 communities, covering 27 districts. | ||
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment: Palm Associates’ responsibilities were to deliver the full end-to-end implementation of the Zambia RBF household and community survey, working closely with the World Bank evaluation team and meeting agreed quality and timeline requirements. This included: collaborating on questionnaire development (adaptation, translation, piloting/finalization, and printing), securing ethical clearance and other required approvals/permits and insurance, and preparing key operational products such as training materials and enumerator/supervisor manuals. Palm Associates was also to manage survey operations and logistics—setting up office and equipment, procuring survey tools (e.g., GPS and anthropometric/biomedical materials as applicable), recruiting and training enumerators/supervisors/data-entry staff (including staff capable of handling the medical module), and providing transport and field support while maintaining functionality of vehicles/equipment. Finally, Palm Associates was to implement the sampling and fieldwork workflow (PSU selection, listing, selection of survey/replacement households, and computation of weights), run strong quality controls before/during/after data collection, develop and manage a CSPro double-entry data system, supervise and verify data entry/cleaning, and submit the required clean Stata datasets (household and community) and end-of-assignment reporting, alongside routine progress reporting (e.g., weekly diaries). | ||
