Client | Build Africa |
Donor | Comic Relief and Big Lottery |
Country | Kenya |
Service | Formative Evaluation |
Sector | Education |
Period | May 2016 |
Consultants | Donnelly Mwachi |
Build Africa is receiving funding from Comic Relief (“Changing Future for Girls”) and from the Big Lottery Fund (“The Wasichana Project”) to support two projects tackling the problems facing girls in accessing a quality education in Kwale County. The projects are being implemented by three local partners: Build Africa Kenya, who specialises in engaging school communities in the importance of providing their children with a quality education; the Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW), whose remit is to raise awareness and support communities to respond to incidences of violence and abuse against girls and women; and Kwale Welfare and Education Association (KWEA), a membership organisation made up of role models from Kwale County who champion the importance of education within the locality.
The two projects seek to achieve the same set of the following outcomes:
- Communities acknowledge – and have increased capacity to address – violence and abuse against girls.
- Community attitudes towards girls’ education are improved, creating an environment where girls are supported to access and complete school.
- Girls have increased understanding about opportunities available to them, improving their self-confidence and aspirations and becoming positive role models to other girls.
- Adoption of child friendly and gender sensitive teaching methods resulting in improved quality of teaching.
- Improved education quality resulting in increased educational attainment and performance of girls
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide accurate and representative quantitative data according to the requirements of the Kwale Girls’ Project log-frames. The objectives of this consultancy are to:
- Develop electronic Kiswahili versions of existing English quantitative data collection tools and upload them onto appropriate hardware
- Source, train and manage experienced data collectors to collect quantitative data from project participants in Kwale County in collaboration with project implementation staff
- Undertake the logistical planning and management of the data collection exercise in Kwale County
- Provide oversight and quality assurance of the whole data collection exercise
- Provide a labelled and accurate data set to Build Africa in an agreed format
Data collection against project outcomes is conducted at the end of each project year. Data collection methods employed are questionnaires, participatory sessions, and lesson observations; and key respondents are in-school girls, out-of-school girls, boys, parents, community members and teachers. Data collection tools were developed at baseline stage and at end of project year one. They have been refined and adjusted to ensure appropriateness for end of project two data collection. Data collection tools have been administered using hard copies of Word documents within these projects to date. During monitoring data collection at end of project year one, the target sample included approximately 275 girls, 175 boys, 85 teachers, 77 community members and 265 parents. The intention is to reach a greater sample with this data collection exercise; however, precise sample sizes will be agreed in discussion between Build Africa and the selected consultant.
The following were achieved through this assignment:
- Submitted a detailed report on how the below objectives and deliverables will be met
- Translated the existing data collection tools into Kiswahili
- Developed electronic versions of the paper data collection tools
- Provided mock-ups of data to be collected in proposed Excel formats for discussion with and approval by Build Africa
- Uploaded electronic versions onto appropriate and provided hardware
- Undertook all logistical planning and management, including planning on how to reach are presentative sample of out-of-school girls, in close communication with the Kwale Girls’ Project team
- Sourced and trained experienced data collectors who can speak relevant local languages, in addition to project implementation staff
- Provided overall oversight during quantitative data collection, including quality assurance and day-to-day management
- Ensured that data is maintained and stored in a manner that is fully confidential so that no external individual or institution can identify any specific individual in the data. Names and contact information should only be made available to the consultant (or consultancy team).
- Undertook data cleansing and validation
- Provided clearly labelled and validated data set to Build Africa in Excel format and in English