World Bank’s Project: Impact Evaluation of Government of Punjab’s Improvers Bonus Program (Baseline Survey, Monitoring & Post Assessment Studies)
The World Bank seeks services of the firm to perform a baseline survey (Pre-Assessment Study) to collect data from 600 schools (covering over 25,000 respondents) located in three districts of Punjab. Subsequently, monitoring visits will be conducted to enable the World Bank Impact Evaluation Team (WB IE Team) to monitor the progress and pace of work and finally follow-up survey (Post Assessment Study) will be conducted which will be beneficial for WB IE Team to bring improvements in the implementation of the Improvers Bonus Program and make it successful. The activities performed are briefly given as under:
- After in-depth situation analysis and studying the client’s needs, multiple survey instruments and training manuals/SOPs were prepared for different types of respondents and survey enumerators respectively.
- Survey instruments and Manuals were subsequently translated in Urdu Language for better understanding of the interviewers and interviewees.
- Class tests for students of Class 4 and 5 were designed to gauge the learning outcomes of the children.
- Survey instruments were focused on teaching and learning environment of the selected schools. The teachers’ performance in the classroom is being evaluated by following a structured approach for classrooms activity monitoring.
- Imparted comprehensive training to the Survey Teams including Quality Control Monitors, Field Survey Supervisors and Enumerators for effective and efficient data gathering.
- Developed a customized software to automate the filled-in survey questionnaires and to facilitate various types of analysis.
- The survey teams gathered information and conducted tests from the targeted respondents including District Authorities, School Authorities, Teachers, Students and Local Inhabitants.
- Subsequently the data automation, analysis, report writing and data archiving was carried out.
- The entire project has been divided into three phases i.e. Baseline Survey, Monitoring and Post Assessment of the World Bank’s Project.
- After completion of the Baseline Survey the Monitoring Phase will begin and finally the teams will be fielded for Rapid Post Assessment Phase.
