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Country : Tanzania

Summary : Request For Proposals For Effectiveness of Early Child Development Multi-Media Communication on Caregiver and Community Health Worker Behaviors: Evaluation of the Malezi II Program.

Deadline : 30 Apr 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32318022

Document Ref. No. : 3601483

Competition : ICB

Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION (EGPAF)
395 Ursino, 2 Mwai Kibaki Road, PO Box 1628, Dar es Salaam Attn: Gretchen Antelman Phone: 255 762 475 145 Tanzania Procurement unit Email: gantelman@pedaids.org / procurement-tz@pedaids.org
Tanzania
Email :gantelman@pedaids.org / procurement-tz@pedaids.org

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Request For Proposals For Consultant/Company to Collect Data Related to a Study Entitled “Effectiveness of Early Child Development Multi-Media Communication on Caregiver and Community Health Worker Behaviors: Evaluation of the Malezi II Program.”.


The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, a non-profit organization, is the world leader in the fight to eliminate pediatric AIDS. Our mission is to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eliminate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.

For more information, please visit http://www.pedaids.org.

1. BACKGROUND: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) is seeking a consultant/company to collect data related to a study entitled “Effectiveness of Early Child Development Multi-Media Communication on Caregiver and Community Health Worker Behaviors: Evaluation of the Malezi II Program.”

1.1. There is significant evidence that the parent-child relationship, in particular responsive, sensitive care in the earliest years of life, is critical for all domains of child development and to later school achievement and economic productivity in the adult years. Mass media communication campaigns for public health have also been shown to positively impact a wide range of child survival orientated parental health behaviors. Beyond radio campaigns, interventions at a health facility level have demonstrated that video job aids can be effective education tools across a wide range of health topics. The Government of Tanzania has shown a commitment to early child development through its policies which recognize that a child’s right to quality health and basic social services is important for their survival, development, and protection.

1.2. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation supports the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to implement a targeted early stimulation program called Malezi (caring for young children in Kiswahili) at selected facilities in Tabora region. This program integrates extended early child development (ECD) interventions into reproductive and child health (RCH) and HIV services for young children, adapting the UNICEF Care for Child Development (CCD) curriculum to Tanzania, in collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation, UNICEF and the Ministry of Health (MOHCDGEC). The follow-on grant for Malezi II will expand Malezi I coverage of the CCD program implementation and introduce a mass media campaign and video job aids. The addition of radio messaging aims to promote positive perceptions and knowledge of ECD at the community level, and video job aids aim to further support and improve CHW education and counselling skills.

2. PURPOSE/SCOPE OF WORK: Specific aims of the research project are to evaluate the effect of the Malezi II MR intervention on various caregiver outcomes.

2.1. The scope of work for this RFP is to implement a significant part of the baseline and endline data collection for the study. The baseline round will take place in 2019, with the endline round taking place in 2020 with no required activities during the interim period of about 9 months. The financial proposal should
present costs separately for baseline and endline.

2.1.1.The work at baseline involves:

2.1.1.1. Enumeration of about 16, 000 households in selected census enumeration areas (EA) in Tabora Region at baseline

2.1.1.2. Assessing eligibility of all caregivers (having children under 2 years) and obtaining verbal consent for about 1200 study participants to complete a listenership survey (about 30 minutes)

2.1.1.3. Revisiting these 1200 caregivers who completed the listenership survey for recruitment into a caregiver cohort, obtaining written consent, and administering a questionnaire, on different day from enumeration/listenership (about 90 minutes, some in 2 visits due to length).

2.1.2.The work at endline involves:

2.1.2.1. Follow-up all caregivers enrolled in the cohort (n=1200), administer endline questionnaire (about 90 minutes).

2.2. STUDY DESIGN: Two-arm pre/post intervention cohort(s) design.

2.3. STUDY AREA: The study will take place in Nzega Town, and Nzega, Igunga, Kaliua and Uyui Districts of Tabora, Tanzania.

2.3.1. The study will be implemented in probability selected geographic areas of the catchment villages surrounding selected health facilities in four districts of Tabora region. The health facilities will be purposefully selected, including the district hospital in each of the four districts. Each primary health facility has clearly designated villages assigned to that facility (about 3-7), and each village has recognized boundaries, administrative units and census enumeration areas (EA), defined by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

2.3.2. Study communities are defined as the villages within the catchment area of the selected health facilities (n~30). The NBS EA census maps, estimating the total number of households in that EA as of the last census (2012) will constitute thesampling frame. The sampling unit will be the EA, and the sampling approach will use probability proportional to size (PPS). This will result in the final selection of EAs being statistically representative of the total population within selected study communities of each study district.

2.4. STUDY POPULATION: Caregivers of children under 2 years of age in selected study communities.

2.4.1.Eligibility criteria for caregivers are:

2.4.1.1. Caregiver to a child aged 0-23 months (18 years) in the household, and ask how many people live in the household
and whether the household includes any children “age 2 or younger” and will
record the answer. If there are no young children reported, the household will be
documented as ineligible and no further information collected. If there are young
children in the household, a complete listing of any child age 2 or younger, by first
name and date of birth (or approximate age), will be collected. A complete listing
of children “age 2 or younger” is done to ensure that no child under 2 is missed, as
it will allo

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