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Country : Lesotho
Summary : Lesotho Nissa Household Data Collection Consultancy
Deadline : 18 Jun 2025
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Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 120766179
Document Ref. No. : LRPS-2025-9197468
Financier : United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
Purchaser Ownership : Public
Tender Value : Refer Document
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1. BACKGROUNDIn 2010, to address programme fragmentation and to increase the overall efficiency of Social Protection (SP) programmes, the Government of Lesotho (GoL) initiated the process to develop a National Information System for Social Assistance (NISSA). The system is set up as a national database that uses consumption indicators tocategorise households (HHs) into poverty levels. It uses a common entry point and is an essential mechanism for integrated systems, providing information which can be used to plan for, target, coordinate, monitor and evaluate HHs and individuals for various programmes. The NISSA involves a multi-step process that includes both data collection, proxy mean testing and community validation as well as grievance and redress mechanism. The NISSA is managed by the Director of Social Assistance at the Ministry of Gender, Youth, and Social Development (the #Ministry#).Currently, NISSA includes about 90% (488, 000) of Basotho household demographic and socioeconomic information, from both rural and urban areas of the country, across all 10 districts. The nationwide coverage was achieved after several rounds of updates. The Ministry conducted three rounds of NISSA data collection between2010 and 2015, focusing only on poor and ultra-poor households in rural areas. After that, the Ministry carried out a fourth round of NISSA Expansion in 2017. This entailed data collection of 55, 895 households across 10 Community Councils in (4) districts # Butha-Buthe, Ler...
Publish Date: 12-Jun-2025
UN Orgnization: UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND (UNICEF)
Type of Notice: Request for proposal
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