Baseline Data Collection for the Jobs Pilot Tender - 44146424

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Country: Cote d'Ivoire

Summary: Baseline Data Collection for the Jobs Pilot on Economic Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain

Deadline: 20 Jul 2020

Posting Date: 13 Jul 2020

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 44146424

Document Ref. No.: 1269564

Competition: ICB

Financier: World Bank (WB)

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Expression of Interest are invited for Baseline Data Collection for the Jobs Pilot on Economic Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain in Cote Divoire.
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR SELECTION # 1269564
This Request for Expression of Interest is for a Firm Selection. Please log in as a valid Firm User if you wish to express interest in this selection.
Selection Information
Assignment Title
Baseline data collection for the Jobs Pilot on Economic Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain in Cote dIvoire
Publication Date
10-Jul-2020
Expression of Interest Deadline
20-Jul-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time - Washington D.C.)
Language of Notice
English
Selection Notice
Assignment Country
· CI - Cote d`Ivoire
Funding Sources
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment/services under:
· BB - BANK BUDGET
· TF0A5052 - Round 3: Cote d`Ivoire Economic Inclusion and VC :Pilot
Individual/Firm
The consultant will be a firm.
Assignment Description
SELECTION FOR CONSULTANTS BY THE WORLD BANK GROUP
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Electronic Submissions through World Bank Group eConsultant2

https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org/wbgec/index.html
ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW
Assignment Title: 1269564 - Baseline data collection for the Jobs Pilot on Economic Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain in Cote dIvoire
Assignment Countries:

- Cote d`Ivoire
ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION
The Côte dIvoire Economic Inclusion into Value Chains pilot seeks to evaluate the impact of an integrated approach on labor market outcomes at the level of smallholder farmers, their communities and along the value chain, in partnership with the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) project. The implementation of the activities started in Spring 2019. The pilot is currently running for the second consecutive agricultural campaign. Support services are offered to three rice mills and interested rice growing PSSN and non-PSSN villages and beneficiaries in their catchment area, including the provision of a rolling fund and capacity building for the rice mills, and provision of input credit and extension services to farmers. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be carried out at village level. The contract aims to hire a firm to conduct data collection in all villages participating in the pilot in 2020.
FUNDING SOURCE
The World Bank Group intends to finance the assignment / services described below under the following:

- BANK BUDGET

- Round 3: Cote d`Ivoire Economic Inclusion and VC :Pilot
ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility restrictions apply:

[Please type list of restrictions]
INDIVIDUAL / FIRM PROFILE

The consultant will be a firm.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The World Bank Group now invites eligible firms to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested firms must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (brochures, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills among staff, etc. for firms; CV and cover letter for individuals). Please note that the total size of all attachments should be less than 5MB. Consultants may associate to enhance their qualifications.
Interested firms are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted, in English, electronically through World Bank Group eConsultant2 (https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org/wbgec/index.html)
NOTES

Following this invitation for Expression of Interest, a shortlist of qualified firms will be formally invited to submit proposals. Shortlisting and selection will be subject to the availability of funding.
Only those firms which have been shortlisted will receive notification. No debrief will be provided to firms which have not been shortlisted.
Attachments
· Optional TOR File
Qualification Criteria
· 1. Firm with extensive household data collection experience. Previous experience with the World Bank is an asset.
· 2. Firm with at least 5 years in business, specialized on data collection and (impact) evaluations
· 3. Personal profile: a. Team leader; Economist engineer statistician (BAC + 5) with more than 20 years of experience in conducting studies, analysis and statistical processing b. Data manager; Computer Engineer, with more than 10 years of experience c. Coordinator; Economist, Statistical Analyst with more than 5 years of experience d. Supervisors: Supervisors have at least a BAC2 training. Supervisors are considered the best performers during training session on the data collection
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Baseline data collection for the Jobs Pilot on Economic Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain in Cote d-Ivoire
I. CONTEXT

Africa-s Jobs challenge is tremendous. It requires strengthening the skills of its labor force, facilitating access to finance for its MSMEs, as well as fostering demand for the goods and services it produces. Often interventions focus either on strengthening people-s capacity (i.e. the supply side of the labor market) or on market development (i.e. the demand side of the labor market). Rarely do they do so in an integrated fashion. Important synergies may be lost as a result. The Jobs Group of the World Bank has therefore launched a series of pilot projects that simultaneously address labor supply and demand side constraints to evaluate the impact and potential synergetic effects of such a joint-up approach.

One such pilot is in Côte d-Ivoire. Given the large share of youth and poor people employed in agriculture, and the country-s agricultural potential, the pilot focuses on agriculture. Addressing the integration of labor supply and demand side issues within agriculture typically happens through a value chain. It consists of supporting actors down the chain to increase the demand for the products of the chain, who in return strengthen the labor productivity of farmers to ensure a guaranteed supply of uniform quality. The Government of Côte d-Ivoire supports such an approach in the rice value chain.

The Côte d-Ivoire Economic Inclusion into Value Chains pilot seeks to evaluate the impact of such an integrated approach on labor market outcomes at the level of smallholder farmers, their communities and along the value chain, in partnership with the Côte d-Ivoire Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) project. The PSSN supports the most vulnerable households in the northern half of Côte d-Ivoire through a cash transfer program, and an economic inclusion platform, integrating digital financial access and inclusion into value chains.

The implementation of the activities started in Spring 2019. The pilot is currently running for the second consecutive agricultural campaign. Support services are offered to three rice processing units and interested rice growing PSSN villages and beneficiaries (as well as other, non PSSN rice growing villages) in their catchment area. The package consists of (i) the provision of a rolling fund through a microfinance institution to the rice mills; (ii) capacity building for the rice mills (technical, management and marketing training, including on liaising with the rice producing villages); (iii) provision of input credit to rice farmers through a microfinance institution; and (iv) agronomic extension services to rice farmers.

The pilot is accompanied by an evaluation to study the impact of the combined approach, integrating cash transfers and economic inclusion into value chains (VC), on the agricultural productivity, household revenue and additional labor market indicators. Put differently, the impact evaluation aims to measure the synergy effects between the cash transfers and the value chain activities beyond the effects of either intervention individually. To this end, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be carried out at village level. This impact evaluation is financed by the World Bank through the MDTF on Jobs.

Baseline data was collected during the 2019 campaign. Yet, only 25% of the 2019 villages continued to participate during the 2020 campaign (several of them were excluded because they did not have land sufficiently suitable for rice production). There were also many new participants in the 2019 villages. It was thus decided to collect baseline data in all participating villages in 2020.

II. SAMPLING OF VILLAGES AND HOUSEHOLDS

The survey will include a sample of about 1500 households in about 60 villages in the three treatment regions Tonkpi, Poro and Tchologo, roughly equally distributed across the three regions. There are about 550 farmers participating in the project. In addition, another 15 randomly selected farmers would be interviewed per village to allow identification by comparing participating and non-participating farmers within villages. Every interview will take around 90-120 minutes. The interviews will be carried out at the interviewees- houses and the GPS coordinates will also be collected. Villages are on average around 35 km away from the town (Man, Korhogo, and Ferkessedougou).

The World Bank team will provide a list of villages to visit for the data collection to the survey firm in due time. The survey firm should implement this sampling strategy of villages. This requires drawing up a census of the eligible households in the villages (those with access to a bas-fond of acceptable quality for lowland rice production) from which 15 households are drawn randomly, after excluding those participating in the 2020 campaign (all of whom will be surveyed).
III. QUESTIONNAIRES

In total, there will be two questionnaires to collect data for the impact evaluation of the pilot intervention in the rice sector: a baseline questionnaire that aims to describe the respondents- agricultural production at the plot level, as well as the financial and employment characteristics of the households

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