Assignment name:

84-Month (or 6th Wave) survey for the Child Grant Program in Kaputa, Kalabo and Shang’ombo Districts

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

US$ 350,000

 

 

Country:  Zambia

Location within country: Kaputa, Kalabo and Shang’ombo Districts

 

Duration of assignment (months): 3

 

 

 

Name of Client: International Institute for Impact Evaluations (3ie), the major funding agency;  UNICEF (also funding some aspects of the study); Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS); University of North Carolina (UNC)

Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 480

 

 

Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address: Prof. Gelson Tembo, Executive Director

Sudhanshu Handa, Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Public  Policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Email: [email protected], Phone: +1.919.260.1169

 

Start date (month/year): August 2017

Completion date (month/year): March 2018

No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 68.47

 

 

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; Chiluba Goma-Chikoti – Master Trainer/Field Manager; Liseteli Ndiyoi – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager

 

Description of Project:

This wave of data collection for the CGP aims to reach the same households and communities that were interviewed five times between 2010 and 2014. Additional funding was raised to study the question of graduation. That is, to determine whether the impacts that were found when the program was still running are still visible 3 years after some households have been weaned.​ ​

 

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

Palm Associates, working with the University of North Carolina (UNC), participated in the design and analysis but also carried out all field and data management activities from staff recruitment and training to instrument development, field data collection, and data cleaning and management. Unlike previous waves, which used paper-based data collection, this wave was one of the first to use the CAPI approach using tablets. All other tasks were performed in a similar fashion as the other five waves described above.