Terms of Reference (TOR) for prequalified enumerators’ recruitment in Hargeisa, Somaliland 38 views

Terms of Reference (TOR) for prequalified enumerators’ recruitment in Hargeisa, Somaliland

1. Introduction

For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, and Collaboration. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children both in their private and professional lives.

1. Objective

The overall objective is to hire prequalified list of enumerators for Save the Children in Somaliland, specifically these Enumerators will be based in Hargeisa. The main tasks that enumerators will undertake includes rapid assessment, Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM), baseline/evaluation data collection for Health, Nutrition, WASH, Livelihoods, Education, Child Protection and Child Rights Governance programs in Somaliland. Thus, as per this TOR, Save Children will recruit experienced local researchers (data collectors) to undertake both quantitative and qualitative data collection with highest quality measures.

1. Specific Activities:
2. Attend training on research protocols, data collection tools and pretesting of the tools.
3. Conduct the field work data collection.
4. Travel to Somaliland regions and remote areas for field data collection.
5. Ensure data quality
6. Transcription and translation of qualitative data such as audios into word document.
7. Proof reading of the transcriptions.
8. Duties
9. Develop adequate understanding of the research protocol, the study population and the study tools.
10. Attend training conducted by REALM team, program staff and lead research consultants.
11. Conduct qualitative interviews with key informants including beneficiaries, government officials, health professionals, health providers, community health workers etc.
12. Facilitate Focus Group Discussion-FGDs with 8-12 participants.
13. Collect data through structured interviews with the sampled respondents and service providers using a pre-developed questionnaires and interview guides.
14. Observe and assess the operations, supplies, supervision, documentation, reporting and case management of the selected health facilities (health posts)
15. Collect copies of any supervision, reporting and documentation tools available at the operation areas to be monitored or assessed.
16. Ensure completeness of forms for accuracy and consistency immediately following data collection.
17. Ensure data quality and sampling protocols by accurately and strictly following the guide/survey tools used for the specific data collection.
18. Ensuring data accuracy and quality by reviewing and editing all collected data with proper checking of all intentional and unintentional errors daily.
19. Maintain teamwork and effective communication with both the team leader and other data collectors during field work.
20. Maintain effective communication with key staff to provide update on the progress and challenges in the field and seek guidance on the way forward.
21. Participate data compliance, check exercises soon after data collection and have a close look at missing and errors.
22. Transcription of qualitative data from audio recordings and other qualitative data into word document.
23. Ensuring that the data transcription is done with Excellent English writing.
24. Proofread the transcribed data and submit a well written and errors free reports
25. Ensuring that the on-going daily reporting on data collection and entry progress for the research are kept up to date.