RFP - Endline Assessment: Women-Centered Reproductive and Maternal Health in Chhattisgarh and Odisha

Organization: Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3)
Apply By: November 15, 2024

Background

Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) is implementing a project in Odisha and Chhattisgarh to empower women and enhance reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services. Key project objectives include:

• Enhancing women’s agency to demand quality RMNCH services.
• Strengthening health service delivery to ensure respectful and equitable care.
• Building community platforms to promote accountability in health services.

Assessment Objectives

• Evaluate the project’s effectiveness, relevance, efficiency, sustainability, knowledge generation, impact, and women’s agency.
• Assess facility and community stakeholders’ capacity to deliver quality, equitable services.
• Examine women’s empowerment in demanding rights, health services, and access to grievance redressal.
• Identify best practices for socially inclusive, gender-sensitive maternal health services.
• Assess sustainability of the project's benefits and stakeholder capacity to maintain outcomes.

Areas of Research

• Awareness Measurement: Women’s knowledge on rights, entitlements, and access to gender-sensitive health services.
• Care Experience: Respectful maternity care experiences.
• Grievance Redressal: Accessibility and usage of public health grievance mechanisms.
• Project Monitoring: Evaluation of project monitoring processes.

Scope of Study

• Endline Assessment Period: November 2024 – February 2025.
• Study Design: Quasi-experimental design with 1200 women (aged 18-49) interviewed across intervention and non-intervention areas in both states.
  • Sampling: 400 women from intervention areas and 200 from non-intervention areas in each state.
• Labor Room Observation: 6-hour observation in district hospitals (two hospitals per state).
• Community Stakeholder Engagement: Observations and interviews with PRI members, VHSNC members, community members, and women’s groups.

Study Design & Target Groups

• Sampling Method: Multistage random sampling with village as the primary sampling unit.
• Data Collection Tools:
  • Observations: Labor rooms, VHSNDs, ANC clinics.
  • In-depth Interviews: Doctors, staff nurses, ANMs, ASHAs, PRI members, VHSNC members, women SHGs, and birth companions.
  • Surveys: For women in reproductive age, currently pregnant women, and women who have delivered in the past year.

Study Tools

• Bilingual Tools:
  • CAPI-Guided Surveys: For pregnant women and women who have delivered recently.
  • Observation Checklists: For VHSND, ANC clinics, and labor room activities.
  • Interview Schedules: For service providers, community stakeholders, and women’s groups.

Sampling Design

• Random Sampling: Selection of states.
• Purposive Sampling: Selection of blocks/districts.

Timeline

• Data Collection Period: November 2024 – February 2025.

Role of the Research Agency

• Recruit and train investigators and field staff.
• Adapt data collection tools for CAPI, pilot tools, and estimate delivery counts in hospitals.
• Plan and implement data collection with quality control measures.
• Process data entry and submission in SAV format.
• Submit all survey materials and data to C3.

Training and Supervision

• Field Staff Training: Includes training of investigators, supervisors, and data analysts.
• Diverse Team Requirement: Teams must have both male and female investigators.
• Training Quality Monitoring: C3 experts will assess training quality, and C3 officials will conduct field visits to ensure data quality, with the agency expected to make prompt adjustments as necessary.

Submission Details

• Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024, by 5:30 pm.
• Submission Email: procurement@c3india.org
• Subject Line: ‘Endline Assessment- MACP Project in CG and OD’

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