Request For Proposal Field Research Services for the Yegna Gize Impact Study
Who We Are
Girl Effect is an international non-profit organization dedicated to addressing challenges faced by adolescent girls and youth in Ethiopia. Operating in the country since 2013, the organization leverages Social and Behavior Change (SBC) strategies, combining media and on-the-ground interventions to tackle various societal issues and empower young people. Girl Effect Ethiopia created the youth brand Yegna in 2014 and, since then, has reached over 10 million people through multiple products, outreach programs, girl networks, and research pieces done all for the betterment of adolescent lives.
We create safe spaces for girls, sharing facts and answering questions about health, nutrition, education, relationships, etc. And we use innovative technology so we can reach girls at scale. We arm girls with the skills to negotiate and redefine what they are told is possible, so every girl can choose to be in control of her body, her health, her learning and livelihood.
When a girl unlocks her power to make different choices that change her life, it inspires others to do so too. She starts a ripple effect that impacts her family, community, and country.
That’s the Girl Effect.
Background
Yegna Gize, meaning “Our Time” in Amharic, is a Girl Effect Ethiopia programme that builds on the Yegna brand and its experience of using media, storytelling, role modelling, and community engagement to influence positive social and behavioural change among young people. Yegna Gize focuses specifically on youth economic empowerment, with an emphasis on improving young people's aspirations, mindsets, skills, access to opportunities, and pathways towards employment and entrepreneurship.
Over the programme period, Yegna Gize seeks to contribute to improved economic opportunities and livelihood outcomes for young people in Ethiopia by addressing barriers related to employment, entrepreneurship, skills development, social norms, and mindsets. The programme works with young people, schools, communities, government institutions, civil society organisations (CSOs), private-sector actors, role models, and other relevant stakeholders to create an enabling environment for youth to pursue viable economic pathways.
The programme is implemented across six regions of Ethiopia: Tigray, Oromia, Amhara, Central Ethiopia, Sidama, and South Ethiopia. Through a combination of youth-centred interventions, partnerships, capacity strengthening, communication and social and behavioural change approaches, Yegna Gize aims to strengthen young people's knowledge, skills, confidence, aspirations, networks, and access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Key areas of Yegna Gize programming include:
Youth employment and transition to work: Supporting young people to access internships, work-based learning, employment opportunities, and other pathways into the labour market.
Entrepreneurship and enterprise development: Strengthening entrepreneurial knowledge, business skills, growth mindsets, and access to support for young people interested in starting or growing businesses.
Skills and mindset development: Building practical, transferable, entrepreneurial, and employability skills, alongside confidence, aspirations, resilience, and positive attitudes towards work and entrepreneurship.
Peer-to-peer and youth support mechanisms: Establishing and strengthening youth groups and peer-support approaches that enable young people to learn from and support one another.
Role modelling and mentorship: Connecting young people with role models, mentors, entrepreneurs, and other influential individuals who can provide inspiration, guidance, and practical exposure to different livelihood pathways.
School-based engagement: Working with schools, teachers, students, and relevant stakeholders to promote entrepreneurship, creativity, growth mindset, career aspirations, and awareness of economic opportunities.
Youth-centred media and social and behavioural change communication (SBC): Using Yegna's established multimedia and storytelling platforms to challenge limiting norms, promote positive attitudes towards work and entrepreneurship, and increase young people's awareness and uptake of available opportunities.
Partnerships and systems strengthening: Working with regional and local government structures, CSOs, private-sector actors, educational institutions, and other stakeholders to strengthen the ecosystem supporting youth economic empowerment.
Girl Effect works with local partners to contextualise and implement interventions according to regional realities and the needs of young people. The programme therefore combines national-level approaches with locally relevant implementation, allowing interventions to respond to the different economic, social, cultural, and institutional contexts across the six regions.
Yegna Gize Programme Impact Study
As the programme progresses, Girl Effect Ethiopia intends to commission an independent Impact Study of Yegna Gize to assess the extent to which the programme has contributed to changes in young people's knowledge, skills, attitudes, aspirations, behaviours, access to opportunities, and economic outcomes.
The study is expected to generate credible evidence on the effectiveness, relevance, and contribution of Yegna Gize interventions and to identify which approaches are working, for whom, under what conditions, and why. The findings will inform programme learning, adaptation, accountability to stakeholders and donors, and future programming and scale-up decisions.
The selected agency will therefore be expected to develop and implement a rigorous and contextually appropriate study methodology that captures both quantitative and qualitative evidence, where appropriate, and considers the diversity of young people, intervention types, implementation approaches, and regional contexts within Yegna Gize. The study should generate actionable evidence and recommendations that can strengthen the programme's contribution to sustainable youth economic empowerment in Ethiopia.
Girl Effect is looking to engage a qualified agency to recruit, train, and deploy experienced data collectors across the specified geographic scope, and to manage the full data collection cycle, from fieldwork through to data analysis and submission in line with Girl Effect Ethiopia's tools, sample design, and quality standards.
Who You Are
The ideal candidate/Agency will:
Have demonstrated experience managing field-based data collection for household, community, or individual-level surveys in Ethiopia, ideally on youth, gender, education, livelihoods, or social behaviour change topics.
Maintain, or be able to rapidly build, a roster of vetted, experienced enumerators with local language coverage and cultural familiarity across some or all of the six Yegna Gize regions (Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia), including hard-to-reach and pastoralist areas.
Have hands-on experience with mobile data collection platforms, particularly SurveyCTO, and the ability to train enumerators on tool use ahead of each deployment.
Demonstrate robust field supervision and data quality assurance practices — spot-checks, back-checks/call-backs, and real-time progress monitoring against a sample plan.
Have in-house or readily available capacity for data cleaning, processing, and first-level quantitative and/or qualitative analysis, with clear documentation of methods.
Be able to mobilize and scale data collection teams on short notice against a recurring, on-call task-order structure, without compromising quality or timeliness.
Show a genuine commitment to Girl Effect's mission and values, with a demonstrated understanding of child/adolescent safeguarding standards appropriate to research involving youth.
Be highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple concurrent task orders across different regions.
What You will do
2.1 Geographic Coverage
Data collection will take place across 6 regions and 60+ woredas, including hard-to-reach and pastoralist areas. Exact woreda-level assignments will be shared with the selected agency alongside each task order, together with the corresponding sample size and tool set.
2.2 Sourcing, Vetting, and Onboarding of Data Collectors
The agency is responsible for building and maintaining a roster of qualified, experienced data collectors who can be deployed against Girl Effect Ethiopia's task orders. This includes:
Recruiting data collectors with relevant prior experience in household or community-level data collection, ideally on similar topics (e.g., health, gender, youth, social behavior change).
Ensuring appropriate local language coverage and cultural familiarity for each assigned region/woreda, including pastoralist communities.
Verifying qualifications, references, and prior fieldwork experience before onboarding.
Maintaining a sufficient bench of vetted collectors to meet fluctuating task-order demand without delays.
Ensuring the data collectors are given a functioning tab and are trained on the use of survey CTO.
2.3 Training
The agency will organize and deliver training for all data collectors before each deployment, covering:
Use of Girl Effect Ethiopia's data collection tools and mobile data collection platform.
The sample design and how it translates into fieldwork assignments.
Data quality, ethics, consent, and child/adolescent safeguarding protocols appropriate to the population being surveyed.
Logistics, reporting lines, and escalation procedures for field issues.
Girl Effect Ethiopia will provide technical content on the tools and safeguarding standards; the agency is responsible for organizing, scheduling, and delivering the training itself, and for confirming collector competency before deployment (e.g., through a short practical assessment or pilot/pre-test).
2.4 Deployment
Data collectors will be deployed per task order, which Girl Effect Ethiopia will issue for each data collection round/moment. Each task order will specify the woredas/regions, sample size, tools, timeline, and any round-specific instructions. The agency is responsible for:
Assigning trained collectors to each task order based on location, language, and availability.
Managing collector logistics (travel, accommodation, safety/security arrangements as applicable) within hard-to-reach and pastoralist areas.
Providing day-to-day field supervision.
2.5 Data Quality and Timeliness
The agency is accountable for the quality and timeliness of data collected under each task order, including:
Real-time monitoring of data collection progress against the sample plan and timeline.
Quality assurance mechanisms such as spot-checks, back-checks/call-backs, and review of flagged or inconsistent entries.
Prompt escalation and resolution of fieldwork issues (e.g., inaccessible households, refusals, tool malfunctions) that could affect data quality or timelines.
Regular progress reporting to Girl Effect Ethiopia (proposed: daily or weekly, to be agreed) showing completion rates by woreda/region.
2.6 Data Analysis and Submission
Upon completion of each round of data collection, the agency will:
Clean and process the collected data.
Conduct analysis as specified in the task order.
Submit the final clean dataset (in the agreed format), any cleaning/analysis syntax or code, and a summary report to Girl Effect Ethiopia within the timeline specified in the task order.
Responsibilities
The Hiring Organization and the selected Consultant/agency will have the following division of roles:
Activity
Girl Effect Ethiopia
Contracted Agency
Data collection tools & sampling frame
Provides (already designed)
Reviews & confirms understanding
Data collector recruitment
Sets qualification criteria; final sign-off
Sources, screens, and shortlists candidates
Training
Provides technical/content input; approves training plan
Organizes and delivers logistics & tool-use training
Task orders
Issues task order per round/moment
Deploys collectors against task order
Fieldwork supervision
Spot-checks and technical backstopping
Day-to-day field supervision & collector management
Data quality assurance
Defines quality standards; conducts audits
Implements real-time QA checks, back-checks, call-backs
Timeliness tracking
Reviews progress dashboards
Reports daily/weekly progress against timeline
Data cleaning & analysis
Reviews and validates
Cleans, processes, and produces first-level analysis
Submission
Receives final dataset & report
Submits clean dataset, syntax/code, and summary report
Deliverables
Specific deliverables for the duration of the engagement will include:-
Roster of vetted, trained data collectors, updated and available on an ongoing basis.
Training plan and completion records for each deployment.
Field deployment plan per task order (collector-to-woreda assignment).
Data collection progress reports (per agreed frequency) per task order.
Quality assurance reports (back-check/spot-check findings and resolutions).
Clean, validated datasets with accompanying documentation.
First-level analysis and summary report per task order.
Deliverables will be accepted when they meet the applicable task order, agreed quality standards and Girl Effect’s written feedback.
The agency must correct substantiated quality issues attributable to its work at no additional fee.
Expected Commitment
This engagement is structured as a framework/on-call arrangement: the agency will be expected to mobilize data collectors on a per-task-order basis over the contract period between October 2026 and September 2027, with the frequency and scale of rounds varying according to program needs. Each task order will specify its own scope, sample, and timeline.
Management
The Consultant will have a primary point of contact within the Evidence & Insight team.
Procurement Timeline
Terms of Reference Published: Oct 5, 2026
Deadline for Proposal Submission: Oct 12, 2026
Proposal Submission
Interested Consultant / agency should submit a maximum 10-page proposal that includes the following:
Technical Proposal
A CV or organizational profile outlining previous work and experience relevant to field data collection, enumerator training and management, and data analysis, particularly within the Ethiopian context and specifically highlighting experience across the Tigray, Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, Central Ethiopia, and/or South Ethiopia regions, including hard-to-reach or pastoralist areas where applicable.
A brief overview of your understanding of Girl Effect's mission and the objectives of this assignment, and your proposed methodology — covering enumerator sourcing and vetting, training approach, field supervision structure, data quality assurance mechanisms (e.g., spot-checks, back-checks), and your approach to data cleaning and first-level analysis.
Examples of at least two to three previous data collection and/or analysis assignments completed within the specified regions, demonstrating comparable scale, topic area, and quality outcomes.
Reference — Provide at least three references for similar contracts with a description of the service provided, the value of the contract, and the contract periods of performance.
Financial Proposal
Please provide your proposed fee in ETB, including the total cost for impact the study assignment, along with a detailed breakdown by deliverable, aligned with the activities outlined in the Scope of Work for the region(s) you are applying to cover. Ensure that all applicable taxes are clearly itemized in your proposal.
Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation will follow three stages:
Pre-screening
Technical evaluation
Financial evaluation
Technical Evaluation – 70%
No.
Technical Evaluation Criterion
Weight
1
Relevant Organizational Experience in Impact Evaluation, Research and Data Collection
15%
2
Understanding of Yegna Gize Programme and Assignment / TOR
10%
3
Proposed Research Methodology and Impact Evaluation Approach
20%
4
Sampling, Fieldwork and Data Collection Strategy
10%
5
Technical Capacity, Quality Assurance, Team Expertise and Operational Feasibility
15%
Total Technical Score
70%
Value for Money / Financial Competitiveness – 30%
The financial scoring is based on the total evaluated cost, while also checking whether the proposed budget is sufficiently detailed and realistic across key cost categories such as personnel, training, fieldwork, travel/logistics, data management, analysis and reporting.
GE is not liable for any cost incurred during the award/contract preparation, submission, or negotiation of the award/contract. All submitted documentation and/or materials shall become and remain the property of GE, and Technical & Financial proposals will need to be submitted as a separate document.
Girl Effect may request clarifications, interviews, presentations, reference checks, due diligence or best-and-final offers.
The lowest-priced proposal will not necessarily be selected.
How To Apply
Email the technical and financial proposals as separate attachments to: suppliers@girleffect.org.
Applications must be received by 12th October 2026.
Use the subject line:
Yegna Gize Field Research Services –Ethiopia
Submissions that do not follow the stated application process may not be evaluated. Only successful bidder or bidders will be notified.
General and Commercial Terms
Framework and task orders: The successful agency will sign Girl Effect’s applicable framework agreement. Work may begin only after an authorised task order has been issued. The framework does not guarantee any minimum volume or value of work.
Contracting and Payment: The successful agency will sign Girl Effect’s applicable agreement. Payments will be linked to the satisfactory delivery and written acceptance of agreed milestones and receipt of a correct invoice. Girl Effect may withhold acceptance pending correction of material quality issues.
Pricing, taxes and expenses: Prices must be quoted in Ethiopian Birr and remain firm during the proposal-validity period. Taxes and approved reimbursable expenses must be itemised separately. Girl Effect will deduct or account for taxes as required by Ethiopian law. Unapproved costs will not be reimbursed.
Intellectual property and data ownership: Subject to the final agreement, Girl Effect will own the commissioned outputs, research data, instruments, documentation and analysis produced under the engagement. The agency may not reuse, publish or disclose these materials without Girl Effect’s prior written approval.
Confidentiality and data protection: The agency must use personal and confidential information only for this assignment, apply appropriate technical and organisational safeguards, promptly report incidents and securely return or delete data when instructed.
Safeguarding, ethics and conduct: The agency and all assigned personnel must comply with Girl Effect’s safeguarding, informed-consent, ethical research, anti-fraud, information-security and supplier-conduct requirements. Required checks and training must be completed before deployment.
Personnel and subcontracting: Changes to key personnel and the use of subcontractors require Girl Effect’s prior written approval. The agency will remain responsible for the quality, conduct and performance of all subcontracted work.
Conflicts of interest: Bidders must disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest.
Equal opportunity: Girl Effect is committed to equal opportunity and encourages submissions from organisations with strong local knowledge and diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
Right to award: Girl Effect may seek clarification, negotiate, amend or cancel the process, reject any or all proposals, award all or part of the requirement, appoint more than one agency or make no award. Girl Effect will not reimburse proposal-preparation or negotiation costs.
Proposal validity: Proposals must remain valid for 90 days from the submission deadline.