Expression of Interest For Feed the Future (FtF) Endline Survey 2019/20 Tender, Tanzania - 32285651

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Country : Tanzania

Summary : Expression of Interest For Feed the Future (FtF) Endline Survey 2019/20

Deadline : 27 Apr 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32285651

Document Ref. No. : 1262258

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

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Purchaser : THE WORLD BANK GROUP
50 Mirambo Street P. O. Box 2054 Dar es Salaam Tel: +255-22-216-3200 / +255-22-216-3246 Attn: Loy Nabeta, Communications Officer
Tanzania
Email :lnabeta@worldbank.org

Tender Details

Expression of Interest are invited for Tanzania Feed the Future (FtF) Endline Survey 2019/20.

World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA)
Since 2008, the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) initiative has emerged as an exceptional model for: (i) addressing national and international household survey data needs; (ii) investing in methodological research with feedback loops into regular household survey operations; and (iii) building National Statistical Office (NSO) technical capacity through on-the-job training, the introduction of innovative data collection technologies, including Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), GPS-based area measurement, remote sensing and DNA fingerprinting-based crop variety identification, and involving the NSOs in an international program of validation of more accurate and cost effective survey methods.
To date, the LSMS-ISA initiative has engaged eight NSOs across sub-Saharan Africa for the design, implementation, analysis and dissemination of national, multi-topic, panel household surveys that have a strong focus on agriculture and that are country-owned and integrated into the national statistical systems (NSSs). The high-quality household survey data that have been made publicly available within 12 months of fieldwork have thus far fueled over 41, 000 downloads of country datasets, and unprecedented expansion in development research on Africa, with more than 1, 000 publications produced since the initiation of the project.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future (FtF) Program
Several years prior to the crystallization of the global agenda and following the food price spikes of 2007 and 2008, the U.S. Government (USG) launched the Feed the Future (FtF) initiative to help developing countries combat the root causes of hunger and poverty. Guided by the Rome Principles for Sustainable Global Food Security, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the U.S. Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, Feed the Future has led global efforts to promote collective action and a rigorous, results-oriented approach to create a world where hunger, poverty, and undernutrition are no longer obstacles to shared prosperity and growth. Rigorous monitoring and evaluation has helped document impressive gains as it has shown poverty and stunting have dropped by up to a third within places where the initiative targeted efforts. The U.S. Global Food Security Act of 2016 codified this approach, and its corresponding USG Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) notes the importance of rigorous measurement of food security activities to track progress, assess performance, make changes where necessary, and ensure effective use of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
World Bank LSMS-ISA and USAID Partnership: LSMS-ISA+
In 2018, the LSMS-ISA and the USAID established a partnership in support of a new program, known as the LSMS-ISA+, which seeks to enhance the proven capabilities of the LSMS-ISA platform in a way that produces high-quality microdata that is essential for development program monitoring and rigorous development research; continues to strengthen household survey data production and analysis capacity within the partner NSOs; satisfies the USAID FtF monitoring needs; and contributes to the global household survey agenda primarily through support towards SDG monitoring, and validation and dissemination of best practices in household survey design and implementation.
In the context of existing LSMS-ISA-supported surveys in USG priority countries, the LSMS-ISA+ aims to collect the required survey data for USAID FtF monitoring needs by: (i) expanding the thematic scope of the existing LSMS-ISA questionnaire instrument to include readily-available FtF questionnaire modules that would be adapted to each country, and (ii) administering the expanded questionnaire instrument to (a) the existing household sample that is interviewed by the LSMS-ISA-supported survey within the USG Zone of Influence (ZoI) and (b) new households in additional enumeration areas that would be sampled within the ZoI towards the goal of producing ZoI-representative insights.
LSMS-ISA+ Supported Tanzania FtF Endline Survey 2019/20
With financing from the USAID in support of the LSMS-ISA+ initiative, the World Bank aims to implement the Tanzania FtF Endline Survey 2019/20. This will build on the experience of the FtF Interim Survey, which had been implemented by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) prior to the LSMS-ISA+ partnership, with USAID funding and World Bank LSMS-ISA technical oversight. The data and documentation associated with the Tanzania FtF Interim Survey are available on the World Bank Microdata Library.
In Tanzania, the LSMS-ISA supported survey is the National Panel Survey (NPS), which has been implemented since 2008/09 by the NBS. The Tanzania FtF Endline Survey 2019/20 aims to (i) track and re-interview the household sample that was residing within the USG ZoI and was interviewed by the NPS in 2014/15, and (ii) interview a booster household sample from additional enumeration areas that would be sampled within the USG ZoI, towards the goal of producing ZoI-representative statistics on key development outcomes, including poverty, consumption expenditures, stunting, and selected agricultural crop yields.
This is a request for proposals to identify and contract a firm to implement the Tanzania FtF Endline Survey 2019/20, with the fieldwork starting in October 2019.
Outputs
The firm will be responsible for the following outputs:
1.Final questionnaire in English and Swahili, and in Excel and Survey Solutions CAPI format following potential changes during piloting and training;
2.Training materials and and fieldwork mamanual(s) in English and Swahili;
3. Final listing form for sampling in English and Swahili, and in Excel and Survey Solutions CAPI format;
4. Georeferenced list of households in each EA, tied to the household listing exercise, in Stata format;
5. Completed data set of original data entry format and in Stata format to be shared with the World Bank LSMS in real time by way of access to the Survey Solutions server set up for the survey;
6. Final, anonymized unit-record household survey data, as described above, in Stata format; and
7. Survey basic information document.

Qualification Criteria

· 1. piloting and translating the questionnaire instruments from English to Kiswahili (July-August 2019). Piloting will last 1 week and should encompass a minimum of 50 interviews, first half of which will be conducted using pen-and-paper interviewing while the rest will be conducted using the Tanzania FtF Survey CAPI application. Piloting should take place in enumeration areas that will NOT be visited by the FtF Endline Survey and that have NOT been visited before by the NPS.

· 2. (gender-balanced) field staff recruitment (June-July 2019), with the idea that: the survey will be implemented using mobile survey teams, each of which should be composed of 1 team leader and 4 enumerators; each field staff member should have at a minimum secondary school completion certification; the field staff selection should draw as much as possible on the past NPS team leaders and enumerators; and 10-15 percent additional field staff will be recruited to allow for selection of best candida

· 3. securing required equipment for: (a) transportation during fieldwork implementation and supervision, (b) data capture and management, including World Bank-LSMS approved laptops and tablets, handheld GPS units and anthropometric equipment;

· 4. field staff training for approximately 3 weeks, including a week long field practice as part of the training and the creation of training materials and fieldwork manuals in English and Kiswahili (September 2019).

· 5. household listing and fieldwork implementation and supervision (October 2019-September 2020), using the World Bank Survey Solutions CAPI software platform, with the idea that the household listing and selection will too be conducted by the same mobile survey teams within the CAPI platform under strict protocols that are provided by the World Bank and supervised closely by the firm managers

· 6. data quality control, which will be anchored in the Stata-based system that will be designed by World Bank LSMS (October 2019-September 2020);

· 7. data compilation and documentation (October 2019-January 2021) in support of World Bank LSMS data analysis and dissemination (which is expected to be completed by March 2021);

· 8. creation of the basic information document and anonymized unit-record raw household survey data files with clear labels in English, matching the content and structure of the questionnaire instrument

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