A ripple in development? - Channel Research

In order to obtain relevant material the consultant may have to
travel in the region or engage national consultants or institutions to collect
and examine reports.
3.2 The field study – Step two
The purpose of the field study is to update and complement the information
from the documentary study and to ascertain that the views of
beneficiaries and other stakeholders – donors, implementing national or
international organisations and national authorities – are sufficiently
included in the follow-up evaluation.
Particular emphasis shall be put on the views of the immediately
affected population and of government and local authorities in the
three countries. If surveys are proposed they should be designed so
comparisons are possible with the surveys conducted in LRRD1. 8
The data collection methods for the field study will be interviews
and observations. Ahead of the field study the consultant shall submit a
revised Inception Report proposing a suitable approach and data collection
methods in view of the findings of the first step. Care must be
taken to clearly indicate principles for the selection of interview sources
also when no formal samples are planned.
4 The evaluation team
The LRRD2 evaluation shall be carried out by a team of consultants,
which are independent from the financing and implementing organisations
as well as national authorities governing the operations. The composition
of the team may differ between the two steps in the evaluation
but it is essential that the team leader remains the same and that national
consultants are included in both steps. It is also required that the team
for each stage is comprised of both men and women.
The team leader shall have extensive, proven capacity to lead evaluations,
preferably of disaster and reconstruction interventions, and to
deliver reports of good quality. Additional assets will be experience from
the three countries included in the evaluation and experience from evaluations
in conflict areas.
The majority of the team members shall have experience from
evaluations as team member or team leader. One or more team members
shall have experience from documentary studies, i.e. retrieving and
summarising in an analytical way vast quantities of written material,
from quantitative and qualitative research, beneficiary surveys, and statistical
methods.
Particularly during step two it is important that the team comprises
members with good evaluation and/or research experience from each
of the three countries included in the evaluation.
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A proper panel study, i.e. going back to people previously interviewed is not possible, but it is
probably feasible to select populations which are reasonably similar to the previous samples.
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