Description of Project:
Sindh province has a coastline of 350 kilometers, a major portion of which compromises the Indus River Delta. The center of this highly fragile and rapidly changing ecosystem is the coastal areas of Thatta and Badin districts, consisting of eight Talukas with a population of 1.2 million people. Poverty is the serious issue in coastal Sindh, with 79% of the people in the project area under poverty line of which 54% are the poorest. In addition to lack of income opportunities and poor access to Government services, coastal households have to deal with rapidly declining environmental conditions. Poverty is worsening at an alarming rate, as salt water intrusion weakens traditional land-based livelihoods. With declining options on the land, people increasingly exploit coastal resources that have already been seriously affected by the changes in the Indus Delta.
The government with support from the Asian Development Bank has agreed to undertake the Sindh Coastal Community Development Project to reduce poverty in the coastal areas of Thatta and Badin districts in environmentally sustainable ways. The project strategy is to help these households sustainably increase their incomes, access to public services, and their capability to manage the natural resource base on which they live. The project will achieve its outcome by (i) establishing sustainable community-managed income generating mangrove stands, crab and prawn ponds, and bivalve rafts, (ii) installing effective community-driven mechanisms for community planning and increasing household incomes; (iii) providing transparent and accountable community-driven mechanisms for small and medium-scale civil works and public services delivery; (iv) supporting the executing agency, the Sindh Coastal Development Authority through institutional strengthening (capacity building, GIS facilities and preparation of Coastal Development Plan) The Coastal Development Plan will include 5-year development plan and 20-year perspective plan.
At the household level, demand-driven skills training, links to microfinance services and improved coastal resources development (mangrove planting, crab and prawn ponds, and bivalve and seaweed rafts) will create income-generating options. At the community level, group organization leadership training, demand driven community-led civil works and related initiatives, and direct participation in the sustainable management of coastal natural resources will support social capital development and better public services access. This will establish the enabling conditions for continuing community-driven development. At the development of the Coastal Development Authority (CDA), a fisheries and water quality survey of near-coastal waterways, and targeted capacity development of the districts will enhance public sector responsiveness to local needs. Involvement of strong national and local non-government organizations (NGOs) as well as local governments will help beneficiaries better understand, engage with, and build long-term relationships with the institutions they depend on for services and support.
Scope and Objective of the Study
The Baseline survey will be designed in such a way that it would provide the baseline information of all performance indicators set out in Development Monitoring Framework (DMF) of the project, and the PPMS designed by the baseline consultants. Moreover, the periodic updation of PPMS should be able to feed achievement status of the performance indicators in DMF.
The purpose of consultancy is to establish initial baseline/benchmark for future assessment of the project areas of Thatta and Badin consistent with the project framework. The objective is to measure the impact and outcome of the project interventions. The baseline survey will establish the pre-project socio-economic conditions of target communities against which the effectiveness of project interventions could be monitored and evaluated.
The socio-economic baseline survey will also provide readily available information for preparation of a coastal development plan. Baseline survey will provide project staff with an opportunity on on-the-job capacity building in conducting quantitative surveys for future. Baseline survey would give the complete socio-economic profile of sampled target population with gender-disaggregated information, as per following parameters.
- Collect data on baseline indicators such as poverty, household income, household access to drinking water, post-natal care, safety-nets against natural disaster (floods. Cyclone, etc), access to public services (roads, sanitation and health facilities), community organization, natural resources and dependencies (mangroves, fisheries, aquaculture), based on primary and secondary data in the programme areas falling in eight Talukas of Thatta and Badin district.
- Review collected information to analyze trends in the baseline indicators in the project areas.
- Using a participatory approach, develop sub-indicators that substantiate measurement of progress on baseline indicators.
- Prepare a Human Development Index Report of the target areas.
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Services Provided
- Preparation of survey methodology;
- In line with the Design Monitoring Framework (DMF) of the Project, a list of key performance monitoring indicators, sub indicators, and their mechanism during the project period.
- Preparation of list of villages, sample selection of approach, tools and methods of survey;
- Preparation of questionnaire and selection of PRA tools;
- Field survey including community and household level assessment, structured interviews and data gathering with key informants, institutional and stakeholder analysis, conduct focus group discussions (wherever necessary)
- Data compilation, organization and statistical analysis;
- Integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis;
- Train SCDA and SCCD Project Staff on conducting periodic survey/monitoring of the PPMS against the baseline information.
- Report writing.
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