Assignment name: Feed the Future Interim Zone of Influence Performance Monitoring Survey in Zambia | Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): US $414,237 | |
Country: Zambia Location within country: Eastern Province | Duration of assignment (months): 4 | |
Name of Client: Westat | Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 128 | |
Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address: | Detra Robinson, Associate Director, Westat, a for profit Delaware corporation located at 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland 20850 Email: [email protected] | |
Start date (month/year): August 2015 Completion date (month/year): December 2025 | No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 128 | |
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; Liseteli Mukelabai Ndiyoi – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager | |
Description of Project: The study was the Feed the Future (FtF) Interim Zone of Influence (ZOI) Performance Monitoring Survey in Zambia, commissioned under the USAID-funded FtF FEEDBACK project and implemented (through Westat) to generate population-based household data for calculating standardized FtF performance monitoring indicators. The survey was designed to track progress in addressing global food insecurity by collecting information on agriculture, food security and consumption, nutrition (including dietary intake and anthropometry), women’s empowerment (WEAI), and household well-being in the ZOI, which in Zambia covered five Eastern Province districts: Chipata, Katete, Lundazi, Nyimba, and Petauke. Consistent with the scope, the interim round targeted 1,640 households drawn from the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Survey (RALS) sample, used tablet-based data capture, and required country customization, translation (Nyanja and Chewa), pretesting/piloting, and completion of fieldwork within the specified 2015 timeline—while Palm’s proposal framed the same work as part of FtF’s broader effort to measure results and support evidence-based programming in Zambia’s ZOI. | ||
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment: Palm Associates (as the subcontracted data collection firm) committed to deliver the full end-to-end survey implementation package for the Feed the Future Interim ZOI Performance Monitoring Survey: (i) customize the draft questionnaire for the Zambian context using tracked changes; (ii) translate the instrument into Nyanja and Chewa and produce the required translation spreadsheets for electronic programming; (iii) conduct a structured pretest and document findings, then revise translations accordingly; (iv) secure all required ethical clearance/waivers and obtain official letters of introduction for fieldwork; (v) provide qualified trainers and co-deliver TOT and enumerator training (including anthropometry training) and ensure confidentiality procedures are implemented; (vi) run an end-to-end pilot, document results, and implement corrections; and (vii) execute high-quality tablet-based fieldwork in the selected Eastern Province ZOI districts to complete interviews in the sampled households by the deadline, with robust quality assurance, supportive supervision (including contiguous-EA deployment early in fieldwork), and proper data handling and transmission—supported by the required survey management roles (Survey Director, Field Manager, Data Manager, IT/technology oversight, and QC/QCS functions) to keep delivery on time, within budget, and compliant with FTF FEEDBACK procedures. | ||
