USAID from the American People
Nigeria Northern Education Initiative
Baseline Survey on Community Perspectives on Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) and Girls’ Education
Request for Proposals
The Nigeria Northern Education Initiative (NEI) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to strengthen government delivery of basic education services and increase access to education (and related services) for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the northern state of Bauchi and Sokoto. NEI is inviting interested Nigeria-based research organizations (RO) to submit proposals to implement baseline survey in the second quarter of 2011.
The overall goal of the survey is to provide relevant baseline indicators against which the effects of project activities can be evaluated eventually. Data will be collected from a sample of adults and teenagers aged 13-17 years in five project and five non-project LGAs per state. There will be three questionnaires used in the fieldwork, including a household schedule, an adult questionnaire and an adolescent questionnaire. For budgeting purposes, Please assume that 1000 households will be included in each state, and about 2 hours will be spent collecting data from each household.
Activities and Responsibilities for the RO: The successful RO will be responsible the following activities: (1) Develop and implement the survey; (2) Pretest draft survey questionnaires to be provided by NEI; (3) Finalize draft questionnaires based on pretest results; (4) Recruitment and train fieldworkers (5) Produce printed questionnaires in sufficient fieldwork; (6) Implement data collection; (7) Enter data for all survey questionnaires using an appropriate data processing software; (8) Prepare a report documenting fieldwork and data processing activities; and, (9) Provide NEI with a clean dataset from the survey.
Timing:
It is expected that the data collection will take place in the second quarter of 2011. ROs are requested to submit a timeline for the survey based on the activities described above.
Outputs
NEI expects the following outputs from the successful RO upon completion of the baseline survey data collection and processing
Final survey tools in Hausa and English (print and electronic copies);
Cleaned and fully labeled data set in stata, SPSS or other software that can be converted into stata format
All completed questionnaires
Copies of all tools used to select household and respondents
Report on fieldwork and data processing
Budget
ROs are requested to submit a detailed budget, including the following: honorarium, subsistence allowance, transport, questionnaire production, and other costs.
Selection Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers on the basis of the following criteria: (1) Technical quality of proposal (35 points); (2) Ethical issues and protection of human subjects (15 points); (3) Qualifications and experience of the key researchers (17 points); (4) Research experience and capacity of the RO (18 points); and (5) cost considerations (15 points).
Bid Submission
Bids must be received on or before Friday, 15th April 2011 by 3.00pm Nigerian time. Interested ROs should submit bids electronically to sbabalol@jhuccp.org, copying mmabala@jhuccp.org. Only bids received electronically and before the deadline will be considered.
Bids are to include (1) A detailed description of the proposes sampling design and survey procedures; (2) A detailed description of procedures to protect human subjects; (3) A detailed budget for the survey (4) CVs of the Principal Investigator, field supervisors, and other key personnel; (5) Detailed description of data entry procedures; and (6) statement of organizational capacity.
To obtain a more detailed version of this RFP or if you have questions, please contact sbabalol@jhuccp.org before 3.00pm Nigeria time on April 7, 2011.
