Statement of Work
Survey Firm to Support the International Food Policy Research Instituteโs Impact Evaluation of the Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project
SUMMARY
In this Call for Tenders, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) invites survey firms to submit their offers to support IFPRIโs impact evaluation study for the Yemen Food Security and Resilience project funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The general objective would be to collaborate on all aspects of data collection including preparation for the survey, survey data collection, and data cleaning. The call for proposals required survey firms to submit a full proposal offer to fulfil the required tasks.
The services required by IFPRI are described in this Terms of Reference.
BACKGROUND ON THE YEMEN FOOD SECURITY RESPONSE AND RESILIENCE PROJECT
The program for which IFPRI plans on conducting an impact evaluation study, and for which tenderers should submit their offers is the Yemen Food Security Response and Resilience Project.
The Food Security Response and Resilience Projectโs main objective is to improve the availability of and access to food and nutritious diets, both in the short and medium term, for targeted households in the Project Area, and to enhance Yemenโs capacity to respond to food insecurity.
IFPRI aims to analyze the effects of the value chain interventions in component 2 of the Food Security Response and Resilience Survey on agricultural production, food security, and resilience capacity of beneficiaries. Below we outline the main research objectives and research design for evaluating these interventions.
This Component will be implemented by FAO. The Component will support smallholder farmers and producers to invest in productive assets and help improve their capacity to better commercialize their products and enter new markets. The Component will support: (1) restoring climate-smart local food production to increase household access to food and food availability in local markets, and (2) improving farmerโs access to markets for staple and high value cash crops (such as horticultural crops and coffee), by strengthening value chainsโ vertical and horizontal linkages, to increase incomes for beneficiary households. Component 2 will collaborate with IFC in developing selected high value agricultural value chains, building value chains between the project-supported farmers/agricultural producers and investment clients, with the assistance of IFCโs Advisory services. This component is therefore expected to restore climate-smart agricultural production while also stimulating the local economy and promoting the production of nutrient-dense foods (e.g., horticulture, pulses, meat (chicken and livestock), dairy and fish).
IFPRI aims to also measure trends in household resilience of FSRRP across all components using panel phone surveys.
1. OBJECTIVES AND OVERALL APPROACH
1.1 Objective of the Study
The proposed panel household and telephone surveys seek to answer the following questions, among others:
- How successful are input packages, training, and support offered in this component at increasing agricultural production?
- Which interventions or value chains are more resilient to the impact of conflict-related, and weather and pest related shocks?
ยท How severe and lasting are the impacts of exposure to shocks on household food security in Yemen?
ยท To what extent does household resilience to shocks improve over the period of the FSRRP implementation? And how do different components of FSRRP contribute to specific dimensions of resilience?
1.2 Sample Size and Location
The projected panel sample size of the household survey is 1400 households in 54 communities in selected governorates in South of Yemen only under the internationally recognized government. The projected panel sample size of the telephone survey is 1,050 households to be surveyed on a bi-monthly basis over 24 months (5 follow up rounds), including 700 households under the FAO component (value chain interventions), 100 households under the UNDP component (cash for work), and 250 households under the promoting nutrition component. The total estimated number of phone calls in the 5 rounds is 5,250.
If the sample size changes substantially from the sample listed here, the budget may be amended with the agreement of the IFPRI and the survey firm.
1.3 Questionnaires
The household survey length is approximately 1.5- 2 hours long and the telephone survey duration is approximately 15-20 minutes to make it feasible to collect by mobile phone. Survey participants will receive an air-time transfer for each round to encourage them to continue in the study. The air-time transfers are expected to be covered by the contracted survey firm.
Key outcomes will be collected in all rounds, while other household characteristics will be collected in selected rounds. Depending on the survey length constraint, each of the last four topics may be collected only in two rounds, once in the first year and once in the second year of the panel survey, because these pillars are not expected to vary as frequently as household consumption and shock indicators.
The main outcomes of the survey are presented below:
Household Survey Outcomes:
ยท Producer adoption of technology from training project indicator
ยท Food production and processing
o Volume of output project indicator
o Sale price
o Value of output
- Which interventions or value chains are more resilient to the impact of conflict-related, and weather and pest related shocks?