Survey Consultant

Project Effectiveness Review Women’s Access to Justice in the Middle East and North Africa Region Background In partnership with leading civil society organisations, Oxfam Great Britain (Oxfam GB) is implementing a three-year programme aiming to enhance women’s access to justice in the Middle East and North Africa region. The programme encompasses individual projects in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon, together with a regional component focusing on civil society networking and policy and advocacy with regional institutions. The women’s access to justice programme is beginning its second phase in the last quarter of 2014. This consultancy will be an effectiveness review of Phase I of the programme.   Overview As part of Oxfam GB’s Global Performance Framework, the Project Effectiveness Review will rigorously assess the impact of this project on the people it is intending to support.  Impact will be evaluated particularly against Oxfam GB’s global indicator for women’s empowerment.  Data will be captured through the administration of questionnaires, both to project beneficiaries and to comparable non-beneficiaries.  The consultant will manage the field work and data entry for the Project Effectiveness Review by training and supervising teams of enumerators and data-entry personnel to ensure that data collected and entered is of high quality. Key tasks Support Oxfam staff in planning the work for the Effectiveness Review and adapting the survey to the local context. Design a feasible sampling strategy in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners (determine sampling frame) and identify valid comparison population Support the design of the household questionnaire in English, in collaboration with Oxfam and project partners. Have the household questionnaire translated into the local language by a professional translator Manage employment contracts for the enumerators and data entry staff.  Contracts should be flexible enough to allow for the period of work to be extended by a few days if necessary. Employment of enumerators and data entry staff should be shared with Oxfam. Lead a training workshop for enumerators. Prepare all required field work logistics as appropriate (printing out sufficient number of questionnaires, rent cars, arrange accommodation, etc.). Manage the survey work in the field, ensuring that the enumerators interview the correct respondents, that surveys are carried out to a high standard, and that targets for numbers of respondents to be interviewed are met. Review the completed questionnaires in detail at the end of each day of work, provide details feedback to the enumerators, and send them back to the respondents to make corrections if necessary. Consult the Oxfam head office advisor on any problems which affect the selection of respondents for the survey or the number of respondents to be interviewed. Manage the data-entry process, ensuring that quality checks on the data entry are carried out as specified in Oxfam’s procedure document. Ensure that the data files are uploaded and transmitted to the Oxfam head office advisor on completion of the data-entry work. Write a brief report on the conduct of the field work, including details any problems which were encountered and how they were resolved, and any feedback which may be useful for future surveys. Please note that the data-entry interface will be provided by Oxfam, and that the consultant is not expected to conduct data analysis.