Established in 2002, the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) is the leading organization in promoting child protection in cocoa growing communities. ICI works with the cocoa industry, civil society and national governments in cocoa producing countries to ensure a better future for children and help eradicate child labor.
BACKGROUND OF THE ECLIC PROJECT With funding from the US Department of Labor (USDoL), the ICI Foundation is leading a project in fifty (50) communities in Côte d’Ivoire to combat child labor in cocoa production areas (ECLIC ), in the regions of Nawa, Gboklê, Lôh-Djiboua, Gôh, Guémon and San Pedro.
The project aims to support a total of 5,450 children engaged or at risk of child labor and 1,500 vulnerable households through its direct essential services (with children who are engaged in or at risk of child labor).
THE PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES The overall goal of the project is to «Reduce Child Labor in 50 Cocoa Producing Communities in Côte d’Ivoire» Through its actions, it expected to achieve three (03) specific objectives namely:
- increase community mobilization in the fight against child labor;
- increase the incomes of households with children at risk or engaged in child labor;
- Improve access to quality educational opportunities for children at risk or engaged in child labor.
ENDLINE SURVEY – SCOPE OF WORK Following its actions in the field, ICI conducts an Endline Survey to determine the frequency and nature of child labor in the project’s action areas and to conduct a comparative analysis with the data collected during the baseline analysis. To do this, ICI is recruiting a service provider to conduct the Endline Survey on Child Labor in the 50 communities of the ECLIC project. The contractor must assume responsibility for all aspects of this Endline Survey (under the leadership of ICI, considering the USDOL partner’s inputs). This includes the development of the sampling methodology, the development and refinement of the different questionnaires necessary for the conduct of the study, the training of the interviewers in data collection, the pre-test and pilot-test tools, data collection in the field and quality assurance in the conduct of this exercise, the development of the data entry manual, data refinement, data analysis and report writing in French and English.
The full terms of reference are available on www.cocoainitiative.org
The interested contractor must send a technical and financial proposal describing their experience and ability to conduct the study. The draft budget and the technical proposal must be submitted by e-mail with the following in the subject area: ICI ECLIC Endline Survey Proposal to [email protected] with a copy to [email protected] no later than Monday, March 31st, 2019.
The offer must include:
- A technical and financial offer, including the total amount in F CFA and US $;
- The budget should detail the human resources, include a list of the expected personnel and the number of interviewers, the cost of equipment, travel expenses;
- The resumes (CV) of the Endline Survey Team Leader, of the Statistician, Data Manager and of the Field Manager;
- The proposed methodology and a work plan, including schedule, sampling plan and examples of data collection tools;
- A detailed project work plan reflecting the project phases, schedules, results and detailed budget;
- Data quality assurance plan during the process (how will the data quality be ensured?);
- Data analysis plan;
- Information on experience and explanation of how the contractor meets the requirements;
- 02 certificates of successful completion of similar studies, issued by the sponsors of the Studies;
- An example of a previous report (preferably in English) is desirable.
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