Assignment name:

Follow Up Survey for the Monze Social Cash Transfer Project

 

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

US $ 299,792.00

 

Country:  Zambia

Location within country: One district,Monze

 

Duration of assignment (months): 3

 

 

Name of Client: American Institutes for Research (AIR)

 

Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 97

 

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

David Seidenfeld, Senior Vice President, American Institutes for Research (AIR), 1400 Crystal Drive, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA 22202-3289, USA

 

Email: [email protected], Phone: +1.267.973.8752       

 

Start date (month/year): June 2010

Completion date (month/year): September 2010

 

No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 97

 

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

Nathan Tembo – Field Supervisor

Chiluba Chikoti –Field Supervisor

Saphila Mwewa – Field Supervisor

Liseteli Ndiyoi – IT/GIS Specialist

 

Description of Project:

The Monze SCT follow-up survey was part of AIR’s external impact evaluation of Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer (SCT) programme, commissioned to measure how the pilot SCT—implemented through MCDSS and delivered via CWAC/community structures—was affecting poor and vulnerable households’ welfare, including nutrition, health and human-capital outcomes. In scope, the evaluation used a panel (two-wave) design in Monze District: a baseline survey in 2007 that covered 2,748 households and 93 communities/CWACs, followed by a 2010 follow-up survey implemented by Palm Associates under subcontract to re-interview the same baseline households and communities, including collection of anthropometric measurements (height/weight) for all members and additional under-five information from health cards where available. Fieldwork for the follow-up took place within the subcontract period 3 June 2010 to 15 September 2010, and ultimately covered 92 CWACs (after one CWAC/household was dropped for being outside Monze), achieving 2,348 completed follow-up household interviews out of the 2,747 baseline complete interviews.

 

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

Under the AIR–Palm subcontract for the Monze SCT follow-up survey, Palm Associates’ responsibility was to deliver the full fieldwork and data pipeline for the Monze impact data collection, from instrument readiness through cleaned datasets and field reporting: working with AIR to revise and update the household/community questionnaires and enumerator manual, organizing and delivering a six-day training for enumerators, supervisors and data-entry staff (including human-subjects protocols and field practice/pre-test), providing transport and supervision for all field teams and managing payments (salaries and per diem), retrieving questionnaires on a rolling basis, and completing double-entry data capture with quality control, followed by data checking/cleaning and submission of the cleaned datasets to AIR in Excel or Stata, while providing regular implementation updates and required field reports (including the final field report).