ELAS Research & Learning Partner Request for Proposals

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Overview: BRAC Worldwide seeks aggressive technical proposals for the ELA in Faculties (ELAS) Analysis & Studying associate alternative. The associate will oversee endline knowledge assortment for an on-going undertaking. Though knowledge assortment will possible happen from February by April 2025, the engagement will begin a number of months prior to make sure correct analysis permissions are obtained.

Contract Period: July 2024 to June 2025

Background

BRAC Worldwide is a number one worldwide nonprofit with a mission to empower individuals and communities in conditions of poverty, illiteracy, illness, and social injustice. BRAC designs confirmed, scalable options that equip individuals with the help, expertise, and confidence they should carry themselves out of poverty and obtain their potential. BRAC Worldwide’s flagship mannequin for youth empowerment in Africa is Empowerment and Livelihoods for Adolescents (ELA), a program in operation for greater than 15 years. ELA has served as a mannequin for a lot of different women’ and youth empowerment packages because of the giant physique of proof on its impression and effectiveness. As with many ladies’ protected areas packages, BRAC Worldwide’s ELA clubhouses are community-based and located in rented and borrowed areas, ideally inside strolling distance of contributors’ houses. The ELA curriculum accommodates a holistic mixture of social and financial empowerment teachings and actions led by near-peer mentors. These golf equipment goal each in-school and out-of-school women.

Regardless of outstanding proof of success, the ELA mannequin has proven itself to have shortcomings, not the least of which is that it requires a sustained and constant circulate of donor funding. In looking for a extra sustainable pathway to scale, BRAC designed a undertaking (known as ELA in Faculties or ELAS) to adapt the ELA curriculum and supply mannequin to an after-school membership setting, with content material delivered on college premises reasonably than in community-based clubhouses, with lecturers as a substitute of near-peers serving as mentors.

Researchers began with formative research to learn to adapt a community-based program to an afterschool setting. This was adopted by a small-scale prototype in eight faculties in Uganda’s Mityana and Mubende districts, subbing in lecturers for near-pears and faculties for neighborhood “protected areas.” The formative analysis significantly influenced the design of the ELAS prototype and curriculum. Ensuing from this, BRAC determined to incorporate adolescent boys and younger males (ABYM) within the prototype stage as a result of they realized there’s a robust want amongst mother and father and college students for extra content material geared in direction of younger males navigating adolescence, particularly content material associated to constructive masculinity. 

BRAC Uganda is now main the rollout of the undertaking on a bigger scale in an try and show its effectiveness by way of a randomized managed trial (RCT). ELAS is being applied in 100 faculties in japanese, western, and central Uganda. BRAC Uganda workers prepare instructor mentors who create golf equipment for ABYM and AGYW. Membership actions will likely be on-going all through 2024. 

To judge the undertaking, we partnered with exterior researchers (see crew composition part). Baseline knowledge assortment was accomplished between June and December 2023. As a result of modifications in BRAC Worldwide’s organizational construction, we are actually in search of a brand new agency to conduct the endline knowledge assortment exercise which is able to contain monitoring the unique 7,500 college students who participated within the baseline knowledge assortment exercise. 

Workforce composition 

The analysis associate will report back to BRAC Worldwide however will collaborate with the principal investigators main the research:

• Manisha Shah, PhD, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Coverage, College of California, Berkeley
• Jennifer Seager, PhD, Affiliate Professor, Division of International Well being, Milken Institute Faculty of Public Well being, George Washington College
• Esau Tugume, Analysis Affiliate, BRAC Uganda

Along with the crew outlined above, there may be additionally help within the type of an RA based mostly on the PI’s college in addition to a second RA based mostly in Uganda. The analysis crew additionally receives coordination help from BRAC Worldwide’s Studying & Effectiveness crew. 

Core tasks

• Apply for an Institutional Evaluate Board (IRB) modification and Uganda Nationwide Council for Science and Expertise (UNCST) modification for the continued research. 
• Actively talk and coordinate with the lead researchers, BRAC Worldwide, and the BRAC Uganda implementation crew. 
• Program and check survey instruments into SurveyCTO for administration within the area by way of pill 
• Coaching enumerators to conduct prime quality knowledge assortment
• Pilot survey instruments within the area previous to the beginning of information assortment
• Oversee knowledge assortment workers to make sure analysis is performed to the very best rigor and safeguarding requirements, 
• Conduct excessive frequency checks of the information to verify consistency and accuracy of the information, and overseeing callbacks and revisits to appropriate errors as wanted
• Monitoring baseline survey respondents for interviews who could have left college or moved from their earlier location.
• Adjustments to this deliverables timeline should be mentioned and agreed upon by each events. 

Software directions

Functions should be submitted as a single PDF accompanied by an Excel finances proposal to [email protected] by April 24, 2024, 11:59 PM East Africa Time (EAT).

For questions, please contact Jenna Grzeslo (Head, Analysis & Studying, BRAC Worldwide): [email protected]. 

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