Key Facts:
Client: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Location: Ferghana Valley, Tashkent, Kashkadarya, Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Status: Completed
Sector: Water Resources Management
Start date: 01/02/2024
End date: 01/10/2024

Project Information:
This quantitative research study supports the CGIAR Initiatives “NEXUS Gains: Realizing Multiple Benefits Across Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (Forests, Biodiversity)” and “From Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa (F2R-CWANA).” The implementer will conduct an intra-household survey and a community survey to understand (1) how agriculture, water and energy systems affect water, energy, and food security and rural livelihoods and (2) how smallholders adopt innovations and what factors affect their decision-making.

Project Activities:

NBT is coordinating and conducting a face-to-face quantitative survey of 2000 households of women and men farmers in selected provinces of Uzbekistan. The survey will last approximately 120 to 150 minutes and will be conducted via computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI)
The activities of the survey implementer are detailed as follows:
1. Translate survey instrument and interview guide into local languages (as needed).
2. Obtain local ethics clearance, research permits, and/or other local approvals
3. Provide tablets for CAPI data collection.
4. Develop, test, and finalize the CAPI data entry program, will be used to conduct the interviews in the field.
5. Together with IFPRI and IWMI staff, prepare the field implementation manual prior to enumerator training. The field manual will be the basis for quality assurance of the data collection process.
6. Organize the selection, hiring, and payment of enumerators to conduct the required data collection work. This will include hiring both male and female interviewers with the necessary language skills to ensure respondents for the individual interviews are matched on sex.
7. Facilitate and ensure the smooth operation of the enumerator training and survey pretest in collaboration with IFPRI and IWMI staff.
8. Develop a field schedule for the quantitative data collection teams and community surveys, and provide regular status updates during fieldwork
9. Develop spot&back-check protocols and share with IFPRI for feedback prior to the start of data collection.
10. Participate in weekly meetings with IFPRI throughout data collection.
11. Share the data generated from the spot and back-checks and additional data collection concerns with IFPRI in a timely manner so that issues can be promptly resolved.
12. Share the data generated from CAPI (in Stata format) with IFPRI during data collection, as and when the data is uploaded to the servers. These data will not be the cleaned data sets (except for variable and value labels, checking and correcting skip patterns, formatting the data in long format as required), but the raw data sets as sent to the firm from their survey teams.
13. Conduct data cleaning to ensure consistency and range-checks; share the error check do-files with IFPRI.