The World Bank’s Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking a survey firm to collect endline data for an impact evaluation of the Nigeria National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP). As a federal-level program with partnership with the States, NASSP provided targeted regular cash transfers along with behavior changing training and top-up incentives to poor and vulnerable households identified through the national social registry. The conditional cash transfer Households Uplifting Program (HUP) was aimed to cover one million beneficiary households across 24 states before 2021. Additionally, NASSP piloted a complementary livelihood component to support households to pursue sustainable income generating activities. The pilot livelihood intervention was layered with a rigorous randomized impact evaluation with the aims of - 1) testing which packages deliver impact among - a basic cash transfer and savings group formation training package versus a human capital top-up package; versus a livelihoods package top-up on household consumption and poverty and intimate partner violence reduction, 2) comparing the cost-effectiveness of two alternative delivery mechanisms for the livelihoods package, 3) evaluating the impacts of alternative strategies to select the productive member for the livelihoods package, and 4) estimating whether having a household-level intervention to stimulate collaborative decision-making changes the identity of the selected household member and the effectiveness of the livelihoods package.

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REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Request for Expressions of Interest for a survey firm to provide data collection support for the Impact Evaluation of the National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP) in Nigeria in Feburary 2025.  

The World Bank’s Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) is seeking a survey firm to collect endline data for an impact evaluation of the Nigeria National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP). As a federal-level program with partnership with the States, NASSP provided targeted regular cash transfers along with behavior changing training and top-up incentives to poor and vulnerable households identified through the national social registry. The conditional cash transfer Households Uplifting Program (HUP) was aimed to cover one million beneficiary households across 24 states before 2021. Additionally, NASSP piloted a complementary livelihood component to support households to pursue sustainable income generating activities. The pilot livelihood intervention was layered with a rigorous randomized impact evaluation with the aims of - 1) testing which packages deliver impact among - a basic cash transfer and savings group formation training package versus a human capital top-up package; versus a livelihoods package top-up on household consumption and poverty and intimate partner violence reduction, 2) comparing the cost-effectiveness of two alternative delivery mechanisms for the livelihoods package, 3) evaluating the impacts of alternative strategies to select the productive member for the livelihoods package, and 4) estimating whether having a household-level intervention to stimulate collaborative decision-making changes the identity of the selected household member and the effectiveness of the livelihoods package.

The research team[1] is working with the National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office and National Cash Transfer Office to evaluate the impact of the NASSP on the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable households, focusing especially on gender effects. Therefore, World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab is seeking a survey firm to collect endline data for the impact evaluation of the Nigeria National Social Safety Nets Project (NASSP).

As part of this rigorous evaluation of this intervention, GIL is looking for a qualified contractor to conduct an endline survey of the study that will cover six states across the country: Anambra, Bauchi, Cross River, Jigawa, Niger and Oyo. The baseline and midline data collection exercises consisted of 3 groups of participants completing a detailed survey questionnaire in person.  This endline data collection exercise will consist of:

a)         A survey of households in the selected LGAs. The survey will collect information on household socio-economic characteristics and demographics and will include approximately 8,036 households (Phase 1). Each household interview will last about 2.5 to 3 hours.

b)         An interview of cash transfer facilitators (CTFs) and community volunteers. CTFs are government agents responsible for training beneficiaries and supporting them through the program. There will be approximately 120 CTFs altogether in the 12 LGAs. Each CTF interview will last about 1 hour.

c)         An interview of the desk officer in each LGA (a total of 12 desk officers). Desk officers are responsible for coordinating the activities of CTFs within each LGA and ensuring the project runs smoothly. Each desk officer interview will last about 1 hour.

The household survey will include modules such as household socio-economic characteristics, anthropometric measurements of children between 0-10 years, labor and employment, housing conditions and asset ownership, time use, intra-household decision-making, socio-emotional skills, agriculture, non-farm enterprise, livestock, fishery, financial inclusion, gender-based violence in ACASI format, women’s economic empowerment, participation, and program uptake.

Working under the supervision of the World Bank, the selected firm will be expected to: (i) pilot questionnaires, edit them as needed, translate and back-translate them, and program them into a CAPI software (ii) develop a high-quality system of data collection; (iii) hire, contract, and pay interviewers, supervisors, data editors and back checkers; (iv) collect data from respondents in the sample provided by the research team using tablets; (v) organize field visits, high-frequency checks of the incoming data, and regular questionnaire backchecks throughout the duration of the survey to ensure the quality of data collected; (vi) deliver raw data to the GIL research team every 3 days throughout the data collection period, in a format compatible with STATA; (vii) deliver a report on the overall progress of the data collection, data compilation, backup methods and data processing, and a final clean STATA-compatible dataset.

Interested firms should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services. The shortlisting criteria are: (i) experience in electronic data collection; (ii) experience in household level data collection in rural areas; (iii) experience and ability to manage logistics, as well as the required equipment and staff necessary to carry out the survey; (iv) experience in creating and managing databases; (v) experience conducting large-scale surveys in Nigeria; (vi) experience conducting anthropometric measurements in household survey, (vii) experience setting GBV referral pathway and remote psychosocial counselling support in a survey, and (viii)  ability to begin this work as soon as possible.

The expression of interest may include brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. The description of similar assignments should include precise information on sample sizes and type of data collected (quantitative or qualitative, indicators included, etc.). Please adhere to a page limit of 10 pages while providing your response. Interested survey firms must submit their expression of interest by November 25, 2024.