Professional Documents
Culture Documents
TORs of Baseline
Survey
Community Infrastructure Project - CIP
2010
C A R E I N T E R N A T I O N A L 4 0 , M A R G A L L A R O A D , F - 8 / 3 , P. O
B OX 2 1 2 0 I S L A M A B A D
These are the detailed TOR to implement the baseline survey meeting international standards and to
document the process to provide accurate information that will be used as foundation for the
monitoring and evaluation of the project.
i.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is providing funding support to the CIIP..
ii.
Please submit your offer for the services described here in accordance with the
All correspondence and/or inquiries regarding the RFP must be address to the
1.
Introduction
2.
Deadlines
3.
4.
Proposal Requirements
5.
Proposal Contents
6.
Cost Estimate
7.
Evaluation
8.
1. Introduction
The CIIP requests proposals for conducting a baseline survey during October- November
2010.The main objective of the requested proposal is to implement the baseline survey
meeting international standards and to document the process to provide accurate information
that will be used as foundation for the monitoring and evaluation of the project.
2. Deadlines
a)
The proposal
The proposals must be received in the CARE International in Pakistan November 1, 2010 at
5:00 pm.
b)
The applicant may submit questions regarding the RFP via email
pm.
c)
CARE International will post answers to the questions from all applicants regarding the RFP in
one document by October 29 at 5:00 pm. The answers will be sent via email to the
applicants stated point person. The answers will not indicate the organization from which the
question originated.
3. Project Overview and Scope of Work
The Scope of Work is included in the Terms of Reference (TOR) in Annex One. The TOR
includes:
Background
Objective
Activities
Deliverables
Schedule
Cost Estimate
Terms of payment
4.
a)
Proposal Requirements
Language
All documents related to this tender shall be in English and all costs shall be expressed in
Ruppees .
b)
Format
Number of copies
If proposals are submitted by hard copy, two (2) copies of the completed technical and
financial proposal should be delivered to the CARE International in Pakistan.
d)
Page setup
The document should be written in 12-point font, single spaced, and with one-inch margins on
A4 paper.
e)
Page length
The maximum page length for the proposal is 20 pages. The technical portion of the proposal
may not exceed 10 pages. Suggested breakdown is as follows: cover page=1; organizational
profile, institutional capacity=4; technical proposal= 10; cost narrative=5. Spreadsheets
associated with the cost estimates are not limited. Number of pages for the annexes is not
limited.
f)
Annex material
Appropriate annex material may include: curriculum vitae of key personnel, organizational
profile (supplemental material to the information in the body of the proposal), copies of
reports, and letters of support.
5. Proposal Contents
The applicant should address the following areas in its proposal.
a)
Institutional Capacity
The applicant must present in narrative format a description of: (a) company profile
(supplemental material could be placed in the annex), (b) the organizational capacity to
conduct the scope of work, (c) the organizations knowledge of adaptation risk and reduction
and climate change, (d) previous experience conducting similar work, (e) training capacity, and
(f) letters of support (placed in the annex).
b)
Technical Proposal.
The applicant should describe in the technical proposal their approach to the steps presented are
:Questionnaire design and implementation, Sample size calculations and sampling design, Training for
enumerators and supervisors, Field work, Data processing, Data analysis.
6. Cost estimates
The applicant must present a detailed financial proposal that covers the following items and includes a
narrative on the assumptions behind the estimates:
1. Salaries. Includes personnel for technical assistance, data collection, data entry, and analysis, e.g.
staff, interviewers, supervisors, drivers, etc.
2. Per diem and Travel. Includes daily costs for lodging and meals and incidental expenses during
training and during field work; mode of transportation; vehicle rental; gas.
3. Printing. Includes survey questionnaires, interview guides, final reports.
4. Equipment. Includes any equipment the contractor may need to purchase (though this should be
minimal at best if they already have the capacity to do the work).
5. Communications. Includes telephone, fax, computer, etc
6. Supplies. Includes paper, pens, other materials for field work.
7. Training costs.
7.
Evaluation
Review team
A review team at CARE International will evaluate the proposals received on its technical merit and
cost estimates.
Review Criteria
CIP will evaluate proposals based on the following general criteria. The elements are : Institutional
Capacity/Institutional Credentials (30%), Technical Proposal (30%), Comprehensiveness demonstrates
a complete understanding of the SOW and all aspects of the technical design (10%) and Cost estimate
(30%) assessment of cost estimate against implementation plan.
8.
Period of validity
The proposal shall be valid for a period of 50 (50) days, starting from the submission date.
1.
Punjab (DG Khan, Rajanpour, Muzaffar Garh) Sind ( Ghotki, Thatta, Badin, Qambar
Background
On May 2010 CIP received a grant to implement the Community Infrastrcture Project in two provinces
of Pakistan. This three-year Community Infrastructure Project has the goal to enable rural women in
the target areas to become economically and socially empowered. The program will implement
activities on Infrastructure Improvement and capacity building which will benefit 3500 women as
direct target and indirect target population is more than 6 million. These 3500 women will be enrolled
in the project for a duration of two years .This project will be implemented in 200Ucs (15 districts) of
Punjab and Sindh. The recent flood 2010 severely affected 07 out of planned 15 CIIP target districts.
CARE planned to assess impact of flood on community infrastructures, rural destitute women and in
general on rural economy. As part of that CIP is looking for professional support to conduct base line
survey in both flood affected 7 districts (3 in Punjab and 4 in Sindh with a view to gather pre-project
situation on community infrastructures specially rural earthen roads, on female headed rural destitute
women, and on rural economy. While CIP will internally conduct its own baseline in 4 districts (20 UCs)
which had not been effected by floods. This will provide sort of comparison and snapshot of poverty
situation in flood and non flood affected districts. This baseline will then constitute the basis to
Objective
The overall objective of the consultancy assignment is to assess the impacts of floods on the targeted
communities & beneficiaries and provide accurate baseline information that will be used as
foundation for the monitoring and evaluation of the program.
3.
Scope of work
Review of key documents, logic model, Performance Monitoring Framework, project proposal,
Final draft of the instrument for the survey, translation, field test and adjustments.
Consultation with CIP staff on modifications to the survey instrument before and after field
testing.
Activity 2A Sampling:
Conduct sampling
Creation of the survey manual for the enumerator and supervisor, including step-by-step
instructions on data collection and guidance on handling problems and questions that might arise
during data collection
Implementation of training for enumerators including responsibility for logistics venue, snacks,
equipment, etc.
Conduct data processing: (1) primary processing , comparison and validation of files, clean files,
tabulations
Activity 4 Analyze and synthesize data; and prepare report and Program Indicator Tracking
Coordination for final presentation to local staff and CIP staff in Urdu and English
4.
Deliverables:
1. Final instrument for the baseline survey and tracking sheet for entry of baseline data
2. Field manual for enumerators.
3. Detailed report on the sampling, including specifics on the design, methodology, and sample size
calculations
4. Field implementation plan with protocols for the enumerators and supervisors
5. Data entry and analysis plan
6. Training of required number of enumerators, supervisors and data entry staff.
7. Electronic files with all raw data in 2 CDs.
8. Two printed and 2 electronic copies on CDs of the final report in English , to include:
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Objectives
4. Survey Methodology
i.
ii.
Project/survey locations
Sampling design and sample size
iii.
iv.
Training
v.
vi.
vii.
viii.
Field Work
Data entry and processing
Data analysis
Limitation to study
5.
Schedule
Baseline survey will be carried out for 6-8 weeks as follow. Time line can be adjusted after mutual agreement and will depend on
starting date.
Timeline
S. No
Activities
Wee
k1
Week
2
Developing TORs
1.2
1.3
1.4
Submission of proposal
1.5
1.6
Proposal design
1.7
1.8
2
Wee
k5
Wee
k6
Wee
k7
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Questioner Design
2.1
2.2
Week
4
Preparation
1.1
1.9
Week
3
Data Collection
2.1
2.2
Data Cleaning
2.3
Data Analysis
2.4
Presentation Result
2.5
Final Report
6.
The total charge to be paid for the consulting assignment will depend on the technical proposal. We
will require a technical proposal that includes methodology, CVs of key personnel and costs estimates
presented as follows:
a) Budget
1. Salaries. Includes personnel for technical assistance, data collection, data entry, and analysis, e.g.
staff, interviewers, supervisors, drivers, etc.
2. Per diem and Travel. Includes daily costs for lodging and meals and incidental expenses during
training and during field work; mode of transportation; vehicle rental; gas.
3. Printing. Includes survey questionnaires, interview guides, final reports.
4. Equipment. Includes any equipment the contractor may need to purchase (though this should be
minimal at best if they already have the capacity to do the work).
5. Communications. Includes telephone, fax, computer, radio, postage.
6. Supplies. Includes paper, pens, other materials for field work.
7. Training costs
Aannex 1:
Logic Model
ULTIMATE
OUTCOME
Improved socio-economic status of rural disadvantaged women in selected districts of Pakistans Punjab and Sind Provinces
INTERMEDIATE
OUTCOMES
IMMEDIATE
OUTCOMES
OUTPUTS
ACTIVITIES
Increased ability to plan and monitor gender-responsive communitybased development initiatives at local government and community
level.
Increased and diversified income base for poor rural women through
participation in income generating activities
350 Skills training and exposure visits facilitated for women specific
to their identified businesses