Endline Data collection services in Nepal as part of the project High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP)

Project Description

The High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP) is an IFAD-supported project which aims to address the development challenges in rural areas in Nepal. HVAP covers seven districts of then mid-Western Development Region (now Karnali Province). It is a value chain development project designed to contribute to poverty reduction and improved food security through increased productivity of high-valued agricultural crops and livestock. The intervention helps to enhance access to markets; facilitates the linkages between different value chain actor such as agribusinesses and producers; provides training on multiple themes including business literacy, entrepreneurship, marketing strategies, agricultural production, gender balance, and social inclusion; and contributes to infrastructure development such as marketing facilities, storage facilities, roads, and irrigation. The project was approved by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s Executive Board in December 2009 and entered into force in July 2010. The project is expected to complete its implementation activities in September 2018.

Assignment Description

Provide the IFAD Team with comments and inputs to the data collection plan • Provide input to the approach for data collection elaborated by IFAD Team • Preparation of Data Entry Format in CAPI – using SurveySolutions ( WB Developed Software) • Ensuring data quality and progress tracking using the Survey Solutions online management and tracking system on a daily basis for the CAPI version • Assist in accurate and professional translation to Nepali language of the draft tools for qualitative data collection, providing substantive comments and feedback to the draft questions and interview topics prepared by the IFAD Team • Accurate and professional translation to Nepali language of the survey instruments and manual. These tools include: a) finalized paper and tablet-based household and; b) community level questionnaires, c) enumerator guidelines to help with the understanding and practicalities of the data collection including conversion tables and codes and, d) a well-functioning data collection program • Training of Enumerators and Supervisors total 50 nos. • Pre-testing, and pilot testing of Questionnaire, Data Collection by use of Android Tablets on Survey SOLUTIONS platform • Data collection Survey of 3000 HH in 235 clusters in 7 districts • The tools include questions on structured and/or semi-structured interviews to use for Focus Group Discussion (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews(KIIs) • Conduct Seven FGDs (one per each of seven HVAP districts) composed of six to ten people each ensuring gender and youth representativeness and including all district line agencies relevant to HVAP project activities. • Conduct Seventeen KIIs in total including seven key informants from producer organizations five interviews from input suppliers or service providers, and five interviews from agribusinesses • Deliver the final dataset and all relevant documentation to the IFAD Team.