Request for Consultancy Service for Data Collection for Rapid Evaluation & Impact Report on the Relevance of Playboxes & Community Listening Libraries at Aga Khan Foundation

Consultant scope of work

AKF is seeking to engage partner organizations to work as part of a diverse team to collect data and develop a research project to investigate the relevance, use, and efficacy of the household play boxes and community listening libraries to promote reading for joy and learning through play. The research will need to: i) be formative and inform the further distribution of content to households and libraries, and ii) assess the overall relevance, use, and efficacy of these interventions. The scope of work includes:

1. In collaboration with AKF and research partner, finalize data collection tools and any dummy tables to respond to the data needs, mode of data collection, and data analysis needs,
2. Engage remote, ICT-enabled data collection systems to collect primary and secondary data,
3. Conduct data collection and complete initial data analysis as agreed through the dummy tables,
4. Deliver all data and data analysis in pre-agreed format, i.e., excel,
5. Share regular (to be agreed based on data collection plans) summaries of the data collected with AKF and the research partner, and
6. Other assets as suggested by AKF or the applicant.

Key deliverables

At minimum, the deliverables include:

• All data collection tools developed, and all data collected through the process,
• Regular presentations on preliminary findings of data collected for each geography, and
• Finalized presentations/tables/graphics of findings to contribute to the final report evaluating overall relevance, use, and efficacy of the Play boxes and Community Listening Library interventions in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.