J-1-_Progress_Report_and_Work_Plan_Tunisia.xlsx

Summary Evaluation Firm Glick, Peter J (DPE/EE-EA): Glick, Peter J (DPE/EE-EA):

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2. Risks and Risk Mitigation (Identify risks facing implementation and describe mitigation measures)

3. Any MCC requests for deliverables not included in original work program? Describe

4. Requests to MCC, or other stakeholders (Describe any required actions by the stakeholders to facilitate progress and risk mitigation for the survey, including trips, contract modifications, adjustments to personnel, etc)

5. Monitoring of Costs (Identify any anticipated changes to the original budget, including cost overruns for originally defined tasks/deliverables and additional tasks/deliverables, Note pending travel or consultant costs that have yet to be billed)

Work Plan and Budget

2.1. Work plan development: The contractor will draft and submit a work plan with expected deadlines for deliverables. It should include plans related to finalizing the survey instrument, training, enumerator training manuals, testing and piloting, data collection instruments, field manuals, data collection implementation, data cleaning, and data analysis report. (Note: the draft survey instrument will be initially developed by MCC but will need to be refined based on piloting and feedback from the contractor). (Section J, Progress Report and Work Plan contains a reference for the work plan)

3.2. Survey protocol development: The contractor should provide a document summarizing all survey protocols related to the sampling frame, drop criteria, replacement strategy, target respondents, informed consent, and protection of human subjects, interview techniques, security, and data quality. The contractor is expected to propose a sample, which will be representative of urban enterprises at the national and regional level., with potential over-sampling in a few key regions to be determined later. Urban areas in each of the six regions of the country will be covered by the survey, with potential over-sampling in a few key regions to be determined in discussion with MCC. This sampling approach is subject to change. The contractor may propose random stratified sampling according to characteristics such as number of employees and industry or sector for businesses. In total, 1,500 businesses should be interviewed and the sampling design must allow for refusals or incorrect listings and propose a rigorous approach to replacement. The contractor is expected to work on sampling with the national statistical agency, Institut National de la Statistique (INS) to obtain access the firm registry Répertoire National des Entreprises (RNE), for use as the sampling frame for the survey. However, alternative sampling approaches may be possible, subject to approval by MCC.

4.3. Survey instrument development: MCC will provide the contractor with a first draft of the survey questionnaire, which the contractor will use as reference. MCC will provide final approval on the survey instrument, English or French version. Regarding questionnaire length, it is expected that each interview will take no more than 1 hour to complete.

5.4. Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). Use of this approach, whereby interview data are entered directly into a software program on a tablet or laptop computer, is highly preferred to ensure data quality. The contractor is expected to develop the software program for entering the survey data. While this approach is preferred, proposals for using traditional ‘Paper and Pencil’ Interviewing will also be considered, provided adequate provisions are made to ensure data entry accuracy and data quality.

6.5. Institutional Review Board (IRB): The contractor must initiate necessary in-country IRB authorization for use of human subjects in social research as early as possible so as not to cause any delays in the data collection.

7.6. Survey testing and piloting: In accordance with its testing and piloting plan, the contractor will pilot the survey instrument, sampling approach, and data collection tools. The piloting should involve at least 50 firms in different locations and of different sizes and sectors. The contractor will train supervisors who will conduct the piloting. The contractor will submit a pilot report including clean data from the pilot. The contractor will work with MCC to revise the instrument based on the pilot findings. Note that given the length and nature of the survey, interviews with firms must be conducted in person, that is, ‘face to face’ (not by phone or online).

8.7. Sampling: The sample is expected to be drawn by the Contractor from the Répertoire National des Entreprises (RNE), with stratified random sampling using strata determined in discussion with MCC. (As noted, the contractor may proposal alternative sampling frames with appropriate justification for these methods to demonstrate that they will generate a representative sample of firms).

9.8. Data collection training: The contractor will hire and train the supervisors and interviewers in accordance with the training plan developed. MCC and the contractor will provide training of trainers before the main data collection training. It is expected that the contractor will recruit an adequate number of interviewers for the training so as to be able to retain only those who demonstrate the necessary skills on tests and evaluations at the end of the training. The contractor will prepare training materials (e.g. enumerator training manual and PowerPoint presentations), which MCC will review and validate. The training should cover the entire questionnaire and all survey protocols. It should also include how to use the tablet (if CAPI is used), mock interviewing, pilot testing in the field, time for debrief, and a test to select interviewers. Basic information regarding business environment issues will also be included in the training to increase interviewers’ understanding of the study context.

10.9. Data collection and monitoring data quality: The contractor is responsible for implementing data collection and monitoring data quality in accordance to its relevant plans developed under Ttask 12.

11.10. Data cleaning: The Contractor will provide clean data sets and a data collection report. Missing values and refusals, if any, should be coded distinctly and consistently. All variables should be clearly named and labelled. according to MCC’s specifications.

12.11. Data analysis and technical report (Option): The Contractor will prepare an analytical report (ideally in English if possible, but French is acceptable) summarizing the survey data for firms. MCC expects the following non-exhaustive topic areas to be included in the report: methodology and study limitations; characteristics of firms in the sample; burden of authorizations, customs, and other regulations and procedures by firm characteristics such as size, sector, and location; gender-related practices and perceptions, by firm characteristics. Note: this activity is an option for MCC to request from the contractor subject to contractor qualifications and other considerations. All offerors are requested to submit two price quotes: one excluding the analysis and technical report, hence covering the survey- related activities covered in tasks items 1-101, and one including the analysis and report, covering tasks items 1-112. Note that MCC may decide to award a contract only for the survey tasks activities 1-101.