Consultant for Baseline Study
- Career Category: Consultancies
- Location: Prey Veng Province
Summary
Purpose of the Consultancy
The consultant will establish credible baseline values and develop a practical, ethical, and safeguarding-compliant MEL system to support monitoring, learning, and reporting for the ASSE Project.
Scope of Work
The consultant will be responsible for:
- Finalising the project M&E plan, including indicators, data sources, collection frequency, responsibilities, and quality assurance mechanisms.
- Designing quantitative survey tools and limited qualitative instruments (for new sites only), in Khmer with English versions, and supporting KoboToolbox programming.
- Delivering a two-day training for enumerators and supervisors on ethics, child safeguarding, consent/assent, interviewing techniques, and Kobo use.
- Providing fieldwork support, including daily data quality checks and troubleshooting.
- Cleaning and analysing data, preparing a tidy dataset, summary visuals, and facilitating a results sense-making session with ICC.
- Producing a comprehensive baseline report in English, with a Khmer executive summary.
Duration
The consultancy is expected to take place over 10–12 weeks from contract start.
Deliverables
Key deliverables include:
- Inception Note and finalized M&E Plan
- Bilingual survey tools and Kobo forms
- Enumerator manual and training materials
- Clean dataset and analysis plan
- Sense-making workshop materials
- Draft and final baseline report (with Khmer executive summary)
Eligibility
- Required Qualifications
- Proven experience conducting baseline studies in protection, anti-trafficking, safeguarding, or community development programmes in Cambodia
- Strong expertise in MEL system design, survey methodology, and data analysis
- Proficiency with KoboToolbox/ODK and data quality assurance
- Demonstrated experience training enumerators and delivering training in Khmer
- Strong understanding of ethics, child safeguarding, and data protection
