USAID/Feed the Future (FTF) Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture in Nepal (KISAN – II) Project. – Annual Survey for 2020

Project Description

USAID’s Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition (KISAN) project coordinates with the private sector and the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MOAD) of Government of Nepal (GoN) to sustainably improve food security and increase incomes through integrated agriculture, nutrition, and sanitation activities. KISAN II aims to improve the productivity of high value vegetables and cropping systems such as rice, lentils, maize, vegetables and goat. KISAN II is targeting 200,000 households in the 25 districts in the Central, West, Mid-West and Far-West regions defined as the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI).
The five Components, which will integrate specific cross-cutting objectives:
Component 1: Improve the productivity of selected agricultural market systems
Component 2: Strengthen the competitiveness, resilience and inclusiveness of selected agricultural market systems
Component 3: Strengthen the enabling environment of selected agricultural market systems
Component 4: Increase ability of vulnerable communities to act on business opportunities within selected market systems.
Component 5: Apply collaboration, learning, and adaptation to market systems development
The universe for KISAN II farm-level survey for 2020 is set at 144,855 with household characteristics and geo­ references. In 2020, KISAN II planned to collect household information on 13 farm level indicators using computer aided telephonic interview due to COVID 19 lockdown.

Assignment Description

The details of the assignment conducted by the Consultant is : • The annual survey is limited to farmer survey for Agricultural Commodities (Rice, Maize, Lentil, Vegetables and Goats) • Developed Computer Aided Telephonic Interview (CATI) tools for "Survey Solutions" using final questionnaire and train KISAN staff in using the CATI survey tools developed for KISAN II Household survey, 2020 • Developed survey system/Tools/ using the world bank and Melinda Gates Foundation developed "Survey Solutions Designer" for electronic data collection tablet/smartphones/ computer for Computer Aided Telephonic Interview for larger surveys • Pre-test of the questionnaire • Prepare CATI survey manual and protocol for interview, in Nepali • Data Collection for total of 1022 households surveyed in 14 districts of the KISAN II • Training Enumerators in browser based CSATI application Data checking for completeness and accuracy by supervisors and data experts: quality control on a daily basis • Deploy the browser based systems and make it survey ready • Transferring data form from survey solutions to MS access or SQL. • Analyze data using MS access and MS Excel. • Submitting annual values for the list of indicators included in this SOW Submission of clean dataset and revised clean dataset in Relational Database Management System (RDMBS) • Provide support to KISAN II team in Data Analysis