Narrative description of project:

With USAID funding, Concern Worldwide and its partners have implemented a three-year project (September 2023 to August 2025) in Cox’s Bazar. This initiative is designed to not only improve the immediate health, safety, and self-reliance of Rohingya refugees and host communities but also to lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future. The project focuses on enhancing maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, hygiene practices, and dietary diversity through nutrition education, home gardening support, and the provision of agricultural inputs like seeds and training. To strengthen food security and livelihoods, families are supported in growing or selling food crops, thereby improving the well-being of pregnant and lactating women, as well as children under five. Recognizing the need for sustainable approaches beyond food aid, the project includes a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) led by GBF with AVRDC’s support, testing the impact of providing vegetable seeds, training, and technical follow-up to crisis-affected households on diet quality and income. Alongside measuring outcomes, the research aims to develop a framework for integrating vegetables into emergency crop programs and explore additional benefits, including increased women’s income, improved household cohesion, enhanced group formation, increased self-esteem, and empowerment.

Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:

The objective of this consultancy is to collect endline (post-intervention) panel data from 1050 households using a structured questionnaire-based interview programmed on tablet computers as well as Prepare a concise report summarizing the data collection process, including the challenges faced and lessons learned.