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ToR for data collection TROSA Endline outcome & impact evaluation
Organization: Oxfam India
Apply By: 31 Jul 2021
About Oxfam India
Oxfam India is a movement of people working to end discrimination and create a free and just society. We work to ensure that Adivasis, Dalits, Muslims, and Women & Girls have violence free lives with freedom to speak their mind, equal opportunities to realize their rights, and a discrimination free future. We research to find lasting solutions to end rising inequalities and exclusion of marginalized communities from getting decent jobs, quality free education and healthcare. We campaign with the public to demand policy changes from governments for creating a just and inclusive country as envisioned in the Indian Constitution. We mobilize support to save, protect and rebuild lives of the poorest of poor affected by crisis and humanitarian disasters.
By putting the rights of marginalized at the heart of everything we do, we work to create a discrimination free India where everyone lives a life of dignity, free from injustice and inequality. Over the last year, we have changed the lives of over one million people in our six focus states—Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Assam. We are also part of the Oxfam global confederation with affiliates in 20 countries fighting together build a better world.
Oxfam has been in India since 1951. It first came to India to respond to Bihar famine. In 2008, Oxfam India became an independent affiliate and an Indian NGO. Oxfam India is an autonomous Indian organization and has staff and board members from within India. Oxfam India is a member of the global confederation of 20 Oxfams across the world. Government of India has registered Oxfam India as a non-profit organization under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act, 2013 and have a Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license.
Background- TROSA
The Transboundary Rivers of South Asia (TROSA) programme is a five-year three months programme aimed at reducing poverty of river basin communities in three large river basins. We envisage that poverty will be reduced for marginalized and vulnerable river basin communities through increased access and control over water resources.
The programme builds on existing knowledge and programmes of Oxfam team and partners in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar and regional partners, and is implemented in four river basins: Sharda/Mahakali basin (shared by India and Nepal), Brahmaputra-Saralbhanga-Teesta basin (shared by India, Bangladesh and Bhutan), Meghna basin (shared by India and Bangladesh), and Salween basin (Myanmar).
The TROSA programme has the following outcomes:
- Outcome 1: Government policies & practices at all levels, in water resource management are more inclusive of community concerns & meet national & international standards.
- Outcome 2: Practices of private sector respect community access to water resources actively contributing to reduced conflict
- Outcome 3: CSOs increasingly participate in or influence trans-boundary water governance, women’s inclusion and resolution of water conflicts.
- Outcome 4.1: local communities are better able to reduce vulnerability to water resource-related-shocks resulting from conflicts and disasters;
- Outcome 4.2: Local communities have more secure access and control over their water resources
- Outcome 5: Increased participation and influence of women in trans-boundary water governance, policies and processes
Endline study objectives
As similar to baseline study, this endline study again adopts a quantitative approach, and focuses on outcomes 4.1, 4.2, 5, and the impact level. In addition the endline study assesses the livelihood impacts of Covid-19 impacts and its interplay with the intended outcomes, as well as explores basin specific learning questions.
The endline study has the following objectives:
- Assess progress based on outcome 4.1, 4.2, 5 & impact level as a result of TROSA activities;
- Contextualize findings on outcome 4.1, 4.2, 5 & impact level with respect to Covid-19;
- Answer learning questions that relate to specific pathways in the Theory of Change.
Consultants/agencies are expected to collect quantitative data for two basins where Oxfam India works-Sharda/Mahakali basin and Brahmaputra-Saralbhanga basin.
CONSULTANT DESCRIPTION
Oxfam seeks a consultant/ agency to conduct quantitative data collection. Oxfam expects interested parties to demonstrate their ability to provide a competent and professional staff, maintain the highest standards of privacy and research ethics, and provide regular quality control and supervision.
A. Consultant/Agency Requirement
The consultant/agency must have a strong record in conducting quantitative research, especially quantitative research applied on social sciences with local communities. The consultant/agency should have the following skills and competencies:
- Knowledge of research methods, including quantitative data collection (required)
- Experience designing a research implementation process and ensuring quality data collection (required)
- Familiarity working with smartphones, tablets and apps (required)
- Reliable and consistent access to sufficient research materials, including for example telephones and research tablets (required)
- Excellent in written communication and presentation skills in English (required)
- Experience to maintain data security for research purpose and ensuring data protection requirement is in place (required)
- Experience to maintain safeguarding protocol during data collection process in a proper manner (required)
- An existing data management and confidentiality policy for all staff involved in data collection, management and supervisors (required)
- Reliable access to the internet in order to upload the surveys completed daily (required)
- Enumerators have a minimum of two years of experience (required)
- Supervisors have a minimum of five years of experience (required)
- Team should have gender balance.
- Experience conducting quantitative data collection with digital survey tools (Qualtrics, Mobenzi, Survey CTO, Kobo, etc.) (desired)
- Experience with remote data collection (phone or video based interviews) (desired)
- Experience in dealing with translation issues during remote field research (desired)
A. Consultant/ agency Deliverables
- Collaborate in research design tools, sampling plan, implementation plan, training materials for enumerators, data security plan and execution and compilation in one brief inception report before start data collection process.
- The consultant/agency will be responsible for ensuring that the full sample is collected and submitted to the Qualtrics application, on-time. This will involve detailed tracking of the progress of the enumerators towards meeting the sampling targets.
- Data collection report with key learning from the field related to data collection.
B. Proposal Submission
Interested consultants/ agencies that meet the requirements as described above, should submit their proposal (max. 7 pages) including the proposed methodology (methods, budget, and plan) that explains:
- A capacity statement describing experience in conducting the necessary data collection and processing of data, as well as evidence of the required skillset and demonstrated experience conducting research in workplace settings.
- A detailed budget and workplan.
- CVs of key personnel who will be engaged in the data collection. Data collection firms/organizations must also submit an institutional capacity statement.
- Brief paragraph summaries of 3-4 examples of similar data collection work conducted within the past two (2) years. The summaries should include descriptions of the past efforts, covering the research topic, the scale of data collection, the methods used, field strategy, data management approach, quality control systems, etc.
- 2-3 references that can be contacted regarding the quality of the Consultant firms’ work.
Submissions which do not address all of the items listed in this document will not be considered.
C. Timeframe:
The agency will propose a timeline and adhere strictly to the survey schedule proposed. It is expected that the assignment would be completed within 30 days from the award of the contract (i.e. from the first week of August 2021). This would be a Consultancy Contract for above said duration with a consolidated payment as per a pre agreed payment schedule.
The indicative budget for this study is INR 3,00,000.
Interested parties should submit this information to procurement@oxfamindia.org with the subject line: “Proposal for TROSA endline study”. Proposals should be received by the COB 31st July 2021.
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