Request for Proposals
Households Surveys for Water and Sanitation Access in Bangladesh
July 16, 2019
Response deadline: July 28, 2019
General instructions
A. Water.org requests proposals from research firms to conduct household surveys to validate
and evaluate household impact for a project aimed at improving access to water and sanitation
in Bangladesh.
B. The evaluation will require the firm to facilitate and coordinate with Water.org staff and partner
microfinance institutions for data collection in the program areas in Bangladesh. The project
requires the firm to submit the following deliverables:
- A kick-off meeting with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team at Water.org to clarify roles and responsibilities in the data collection and reporting process (can be conducted remotely).
- An inception report, including a desk review and outline of sampling approach, methodology and data collection instruments, and facilitator guides.
- Both raw and clean data collected by the evaluators and codebook (from household surveys).
- A draft evaluation report submitted to Water.org for feedback.
- A final evaluation report, not to exceed 25 pages (excluding annexes).
- Presentation of the findings to Water.org.
C. Invoicing will occur upon completion and approval of the deliverables outlined as above in
Section 1, Part B of this document.
D. Water.org is not liable for any expenditure incurred by responding firms prior to issuance of
an executed contract with Water.org.
E. Submissions must be typed and submitted only by email and must follow the format of the requests for information in Section 4: Submissions Requirements. Unless agreed upon with Water.org, no changes or corrections to a response will be allowed after the deadline.
F. Proposed schedule:
- July 28 –Proposal submissions due by 5:00 PM CST.
- August 8, 2019 – Results announced
- August 15, 2019 – Contract begins
- November 30, 2019 – Contract ends
Proposals and queries related to the RFP should be sent through email to:
Anitta Mankhin
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Manager, Bangladesh country team
amankhin@water.org
and
Magdalene Goble
Senior Analyst, Global Standards Monitoring
mgoble@water.org
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