Assignment name: Zambia Innovation Grants Program Evaluation of the Zambian Breweries “Manja Pamodzi” Project | Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): US $ 121,982 | |
Country: Zambia Location within country: Chipata, Katete, Mbala, and Nakonde Districts | Duration of assignment (months): 16 | |
Name of Client: American Institutes for Research (AIR), Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) | Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 23 | |
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): April 2017 Completion date (month/year): August 2018 | No. of professional staff-months provided by your consulting firm/organization or your sub consultants: 23 | |
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); Fusya Goma – Qualitative Lead; Nathan Tembo – Master Trainer & Quantitative Lead; Chisangu Matome – Time-and-Motion Research Assistant; Liseteli Mukelabai Ndiyoi – Data Manager/IT Specialist; Festus Tembo – Financial Manager | |
Description of Project: The subcontract was a mixed-methods performance evaluation commissioned under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Zambia Innovation Grants Program to generate credible learning on the Zambian Breweries “Manja Pamodzi” project, which aimed to build a sustainable collection-and-recycling value chain for post-consumer packaging waste in Lusaka—reducing street waste that clogs infrastructure, reducing burning/landfilling of recyclables, and creating jobs—while informing future phases of the initiative. The evaluation’s scope was explicitly set in Lusaka across the project’s target peri-urban areas (including Matero, Mtendere, Chawama, Ngombe, Chuunga, George, Kalikiliki, Chibolya, Bauleni, and Chipata/Garden) and was implemented in two waves within the revised period of performance 10 April 2017–31 August 2018: (i) qualitative data collection in May 2017 and June/July 2018 (FGDs and KIIs with waste collectors, aggregators, processors, Zambian Breweries, MCA, and community leadership) and (ii) quantitative surveys of waste collectors in May 2017 (n=300 across 8 areas) and June/July 2018 (n=615 across 11 areas), complemented by time-and-motion exercises in June 2017 and June 2018. | ||
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment: Palm Associates was responsible for delivering the full in-country data collection and field support package for the mixed-methods performance evaluation of the Manja Pamodzi project, including: preparing and submitting the complete ethics package (UNZA formatting, IRB forms, information sheet, cover letters, submissions, and the IRB renewal in April/May 2018); recruiting and fielding two qualitative data collectors, conducting two waves of qualitative work (May 2017 and June/July 2018) in Lusaka, organizing and paying respondent compensation, arranging all transport for Palm and AIR supervision/sensitization, and producing all required transcripts; implementing tablet-based quantitative data collection of waste collectors in two waves (May 2017 and June/July 2018) with the required field team and supervision; providing dedicated IT support (loading tablets with SurveyCTO, downloading forms, delivering the IT component of training, troubleshooting daily issues, and updating survey versions), as well as renting tablets and chargers; supporting time-and-motion exercises (one research assistant for four days in June 2017 and four days in June 2018, data entry, secure upload within one day, and logistics); and ensuring strict field discipline and quality controls (punctuality, transport consistency, appointments, daily reporting, and same-day data transmission) while providing cars, drivers, fuel, communication/data connectivity, and enumerator necessities. | ||
