Endline Survey for Impact Evaluation of Clean Cooking Technology Tender, Lao PDR - 66129554

Procurement Summary

Country : Lao PDR

Summary : Endline Survey for Impact Evaluation of Clean Cooking Technology

Deadline : 10 May 2022

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 66129554

Document Ref. No. : 1280804

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Expression of Interest are invited for Endline Survey for Impact Evaluation of Clean Cooking Technology in Lao PDR.

The endline survey will include a sample size of approximately 1, 000 households who have been already interviewed during the baseline survey. The team will interview the primary cook in the household. All household interviews are expected to take place in person at the place of residence. However, the survey might take place over the phone if the public health situation at the proposed time of the survey does not allow an in-person survey and the IE team agrees to in writing prior to interviews.
The endline survey will take place in Vientiane Capital. The questionnaire will cover indicators on a wide range of outcomes, including the household characteristics, cooking practices, fuel consumption, intra-household bargaining, and health outcomes. Interviews will last approximately 60 minutes. The content of the survey will be similar, regardless of the mode of interview (phone or in-person).
Data on the primary cook's Particulate Matter (PM2.5) personal exposure and/or household air quality will be collected as part of the endline survey. The consulting firm will be responsible for installing air quality sensors and/or wearable devices at survey participants' residences in order for the IE team to collect information on household air pollution and/or personal exposure. The duration of the PM2.5 measurement monitoring will be between 24 and 48 hours.
Responsibilities
During the Endline Survey, the consulting firm will be responsible for the following activities:
1. Obtaining any required permissions and clearances for data collection in Laos.
2. Assisting in the development of data collection instruments - field testing, translating and back-translating the instrument.
3. Pilot testing the data collection instrument (appx 40 respondents), providing feedback and data from this exercise, and assisting the IE team in improving the data collection instrument and the consent form. The pilot test should take place in two phases, and the firm will provide feedback and data after each phase. The questionnaire will be modified before the second phase, taking into account the lessons learned during the first pilot phase.
4. Developing a detailed field procedure plan describing the agreements between the consulting firm and the WBG, with information on team composition, roles and responsibilities, and plan for contacting respondents and scheduling visits and re-visits, plans for logistical arrangements, plans for supervision and monitoring, and expected timeline.
5. Developing data protocols describing the agreements between the consulting firm and the WBG, providing information on what steps the consulting firm will take to ensure data quality, including any plans for spot checks, back checks and electronic means of survey verification (audio recording of enumerator prompts, for instance), plans for monitoring and reporting surveyor performance, plans for reporting any difficulties with survey, deviations from field work plan and events that may affect the study. The protocols should also clearly specify how enumerators will manage rescheduling households who are in the sample but unavailable at the first attempt.
6. Developing the operations manual for field work and training materials to be used to train enumerators and supervisors, with clear protocols for scheduling and carrying out interviews in a manner that is compliant with the study design - including how to ask questions, explaining any technical terms in the survey, what to do in different scenarios (where interview may not go as planned respondent refuses to participate, enumerator does not find respondent)- and the reporting and contingency arrangements to follow.
7. Recruiting, contracting and training experienced and qualified field staff enumerators and supervisors. Enumerators and supervisors who will conduct survey data collection should receive at least 4 days of endline survey training, which should include classroom simulations, phone and/or in-person interview practice, and quizzes. Enumerators should be given written quizzes during training to identify areas of confusion. Enumerators and supervisors who will collect PM2.5 measures should participate in at least 5 days of a PM2.5 measurement training provided by health experts hired by the IE team. The training will guide enumerators on how to set up, install, transport, store, remove the PM2.5 measurement devices, as well as how to collect data from the sensors. The consulting firm is encouraged to send a dedicated team of enumerators and supervisors, who have basic computer skills (i.e. open programs and download data), are able to communicate in English, and acquire data management mindsets, to join the PM2.5 measurement training. All PM2.5 measurement training sessions will be conducted in-person and/or virtual given the public health situation at the proposed time of the trainings.
8. Carrying out the data collection, which includes
Contacting respondents for the interview, seeking consent from the respondent to participate in the study and carrying out data collection electronically.
Contacting respondents to set up PM2.5 measurement devices at a survey participants residence, obtaining consent to place the sensors in the kitchen, and/or set up wearable devices to measure the household air quality and the primary cooks exposure, and collecting the devices from the survey participants residence after 24 to 48 hours of collecting PM2.5 measurement data.
9. Supervising the quality of data collection: To minimize the prevalence of non-sampling error and to ensure the implementation of fieldwork is in accordance with the standard procedures, supervision should be conducted for ensuring enumerators collect high quality data. This will involve randomly verifying at least 10% of surveys through back-checks or other methods. Interviews to be monitored will be randomly selected by the World Bank team or survey firm.
10. Data collection must be carried out using CAPI unless there is a strong justification for using paper-based questionnaires.
However, paper questionnaires must be available in case of CAPI failures. The hard copies of all surveys that have been completed on paper questionnaires must be returned to the consulting firms central office and transferred to WBG, even after the data has been entered into digital records. Data that must be manually entered into digital record systems form paper questionnaires must be entered through double entry, using two different data entry staff. Data management software must be used to check the doubly entered data for mismatches.
11. Reporting twice a week on endline survey progress, with information on number of respondents contacted, interviewed, response rates, reasons for non-response, re-contact strategy, quality controls implemented, and other relevant information. A brief (1-page) report on early field activity and results should also be shared after the 2nd day of fieldwork.
12. Carrying out the data processing, which includes:
Developing the data entry program and troubleshooting issues with the application or the electronic equipment
Delivering data: Compiling, doing basic data checks and delivering cleaned data to the IE team.
13. Upon completion of data collection activity, a report should be submitted, describing the implementation of data collection activities, including the process of fielding of data collection, incomplete data and compliance issues (and methods used to minimize attrition in future panels), assessment of the quality of data collected, and suggestions for improvement

Publication Date: 03-May-2022

Expression of Interest Deadline: 10-May-2022

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