Jipange Baseline Survey Application Request

Baseline Survey of Service Delivery Points in Five Urban Centres for the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (Tupange) and the Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) Project

Tupange is a 5-year program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the aim of increasing and sustaining the use of family planning among the vulnerable urban populations in Kenya.

Tupange comprises Jhpiego as the Lead Implementing partner, with Johns Hopkins Centre for Communication Programs, Marie Stopes International, the National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development and Pharm Access Ltd in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and local city councils.

Technical oversight for the Baseline Survey will be provided by the MLE Project, represented in Kenya by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), the lead partner being the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina (UNC-CPC), USA.

Tupange is being undertaken in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Machakos and Kakamega.

Key elements of the Initiative include

1. integration of FP services with maternal and newborn health and HIV/AIDS services;
2. improvement in the quality of FP services in strategic clinics;
3. increased FP access through public-private partnerships;
4. creation of sustained demand for FP services among the urban poor; and
5. creation of a supportive policy environment for increasing funding and financial mechanisms for family planning services for the urban poor.

This RFA is seeking an implementation partner with a proven track record and experience in undertaking similar assignments to carry out the Tupange/MLE Baseline Service Delivery Provision (SDP) survey.

The SDP survey will cover registered public and private health care facilities and pharmacies which provide (or have the potential to provide) family planning services or method(s).

The study will consist of a facility audit, interviews with providers and exit interviews with women clients. The following sample sizes are anticipated: 390 health facility audits; 350 pharmacy audits; 1,560 provider interviews and 4,000 client exit interviews.

The implementing partner will play the primary role in the planning, execution and analysis of the SDP survey.

In particular, this RFA seeks an organization/ firm to perform the following tasks:

• development of training materials;
• translation, pilot testing, revision and printing of all materials and tools;
• recruitment of fieldworkers and supervisors;
• training of interviewers, data collection, entry and cleaning; and report-writing.

Data collection shall include:

• sensitization and security;
• facility audits in identified facilities and pharmacies, provider and client interviews at target facilities;
• supervision and other data quality assurance procedures; and
• field data editing.

Interested organizations / firms can receive a soft copy of the Technical Proposal for the baseline survey by requesting the same from Tupange@jhpiego.net between January 28th and 12 noon on 4th February 2011.

The deadline for submission of two hardcopies of the application is 12 noon on Friday, 18th February 2011. Any proposals received after 12 noon 18th February 2011 will be rejected.

Incomplete proposals will also be rejected.

The proposals should be sent by courier or hand delivered to the Reception Desk at the following address:

Jhpiego Kenya office
Tupange Baseline Survey Application
Peponi Plaza, Block E, Third Floor
Peponi Rd, Westlands
P.O. Box 66119-00800
Nairobi, Kenya