The
Africa Gender Innovation Lab (AGIL) supports the design of innovative scalable
interventions to address gender inequality in the productive economic sectors
and rigorous research to build the evidence on what works and what does not.
AGIL is conducting an impact evaluation that randomized access to a light touch rental
market facilitation intervention to households in rural areas in Ethiopia.
The WB
research team is seeking to contract a survey firm that will
carry out an in-person endline survey of households. The
survey about 60 minutes. The firm will be responsible
for:
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Activity 1: Field procedure plan for data
collection.
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Activity 2: Translation,
testing, and formatting of the electronic version of the questionnaire.
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Activity 3: Preparation of
enumerator training module and, manuals and implementation of personnel
training, field test.
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Activity 4: Recruitment,
contracting, and payment of experienced enumerators and supervisors, the composition
of which should be approved by the research team.
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Activity 5: Implementation of
the field work, including organization and provision of logistical support to
interviewers and supervisors while data are being collected, regular field
reports and data consistency checks; cleaning, coding, and labeling of the
final dataset.
This Request for Expressions of Interest is to solicit
interest from a consultant (survey firm) or a consortium of firms to conduct endline
data collection activities for this project.
Interested firms should provide
information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and
relevant experience to perform the services. The shortlisting criteria are: (i)
expertise in field work required for large scale economic surveys; (ii)
experience in implementing randomized controlled trials accompanied with household
surveys at the scale of this project; (iii) experience in running surveys
involving disclosing of the treatment assignment and voucher distribution (iv)
skills in project management; (v) capacity in database design, data management,
and statistics. The expression of interest may include brochures, description
of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of
appropriate skills among staff, etc.
This assignment is expected to take place between January 2026 and May 2026.
Interested firms should submit an expression of interest by Monday December 4 at 11.59pm Washington DC time.