Assignment name: Round I Process Evaluation of the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project in Mumbwa District, Central Province | Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): US $ 49,259 | |
Country: Zambia Location within country: Mumbwa District | Duration of assignment (months): 2 | |
Name of Client: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 10.3 | |
Contact Person, Title/Designation, Tel. No./Address: | Danny Harvey: Then: Dr. Rahul Rawat, Research Fellow, Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2033 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006, USA Now: Deputy Director, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (maternal, newborn and child nutrition portfolio), Gates Foundation, 500 5th Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Email: [email protected]; Phone: +1 206-709-3100. | |
Start date (month/year): Feb 2013 Completion date (month/year): Mar 2013 | No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 10.3 | |
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); Chibamba Mwansakilwa – Field Manager Nathan Tembo – Field Manager Dr. Fusya Goma – FGD Team Lead Liseteli Ndiyoi – IT Specialist | |
Description of Project: Round 1 of the RAIN (Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition) Process Evaluation was a mixed-methods study embedded within IFPRI’s evaluation of the RAIN project in Mumbwa District, Central Province, implemented by Concern Worldwide Zambia to understand how the project was being delivered (and experienced) across the trial arms and to generate actionable learning for implementation improvements. In scope, Palm Associates conducted data collection in three wards of Mumbwa District and implemented a structured package comprising: a frontline worker survey (n=120) spanning CHVs and SMFs across the AG+NUTR, AG, and Control arms; a supervisor/trainer survey (up to n=33) covering cadres such as CDFs, CEOs, LAs, HWs, EHTs, and IYCF trainers; and 12 focus group discussions (women’s groups and non-beneficiary groups) aligned to the same arms. The Round 1 fieldwork was executed within the defined 2013 timeline—training completion by 16 February 2013, field launch on 19 February 2013, completion of surveys and FGDs by 5 March 2013, submission of detailed FGD notes by 10 March 2013, and completion of cleaned datasets, tabulations, FGD outputs, and reporting by 30 March 2013. | ||
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment: Palm Associates’ responsibility was to deliver the complete Round 1 RAIN process evaluation data-collection package in three wards of Mumbwa District—training enumerators and qualitative research assistants using IFPRI-provided tools; pretesting interview guides; securing local permissions; coordinating schedules with Concern Worldwide; implementing supervisory controls and quality assurance; digitally recording FGDs and producing detailed FGD notes per Dr. Terry Roopnaraine’s guidance; entering survey data in CSPro with cleaning and documentation; submitting cleaned datasets with data dictionaries to IFPRI and responding to data queries; and producing the required outputs—basic survey tabulations, FGD report outputs, a field report, and full documentation—by the agreed deadlines. | ||
