IE of a pilot aiming at fostering economic participation of adolescent girls Niger

As part of the Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) Project, the World Bank team is supporting the SWEDD team, government counterparts, and technical partners in designing and testing a pilot intervention Personal Initiative (PI) training in Niger. The intervention, that ended in August 2024, targeted out-of-school girls and young women, married and unmarried, 15-27 years of age at the start of the intervention, with the goal of empowering young girls and promoting their participation in income-generating activities (IGA). The World Bank’s Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab is conducting an impact evaluation of this intervention to p rovide solid evidence of the effectiveness of the PI training on girls’ economic empowerment outcomes, business practices, personal initiative and entrepreneurial skills, socioemotional skills, decision-making and other outcomes. The baseline survey was conducted in March 2024, and the first follow-up was conducted between April and June 2025. The World Bank team is seeking to contract a survey firm to conduct face-to-face surveys, with work expected to begin on November 1st, 2026 . Each young women survey is expected to take approximately 1.5 to 2 hours and will be done using standard electronic data collection platforms. The data collection will start in December 2026 . The firm will be responsible for: · Activity 1: Instrument Design, Piloting of the tools and Preparation: finalization of the questionnaires and manuals; programming of the electronic version of the questionnaires and tools; questionnaires translations; working with the WB team to ensure that all permissions to conduct the survey are in place; field activity protocols; recruitment, hiring, training and supervision of survey enumerators and managers; piloting and testing of the data collection tools and protocols. The field team composition should be approved by the research team. · Activity 2: Organization, Supervision and Data Collection: conducting face-to-face interviews using tablets; managing survey logistics, including transport and other support to interviewers; implementing a Referral Mechanism for respondents reporting an incident such as being a survivor of gender-based violenc e. Tracking down all adolescents and young women surveyed at baseline and verifying and updating contact informatio n of survey participants (ensuring that attrition rate is 5% or lower); survey supervision ensuring data quality through performing back-checks, high frequency checks and field visits; daily monitoring of data collection; putting in place all processes to protect the confidentiality of those participating in the survey at all stages. · Activity 3: Follow-up survey data management: provide each weeks’ collected data; cleaning, coding, labeling and anonymization of the final dataset; ensuring the protection of confidentiality of participants at all stages working with the WB team to ensure WB data security guidelines and policies are followed. This Request for Expressions of Interest is to solicit interest from a consultant (survey firm) to conduct all the follow-up data collection activities for this project. Interested firms should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications an d relevant experience to perform the services. The shortlisting criteria are: (i) Have considerable experience (at least five years) in managing large-scale household surveys, preferably targeting young population, particularly adolescent girls and young women and covering topics relative to Income Generating Activities and socio-emotional skills. This includes the preparation of (CAPI) survey and training materials, training and supervising interviewers, maintaining reco rds, and ensuring confidentiality of records; (ii) Have sufficient experience and capacity to manage survey logistics, including equipment, materials, and personnel; (iii) Have experience conducting research with human subjects; (iv) Have experience in data collection in Western Africa, particularly in Niger; (v) Have experience conducting surveys for impact evaluations, including respondent tracking over extended periods. Experience on surveys for programs targeted to adolescent girls and young women will be a plus; (vi) Have experience with electronic data collection (SurveyCTO, ODK, etc.), as well as with standard statistical software (Stata). The duration of the assignment will be approximately 6 months.