Consultant to Conduct USAID IUWASH Pasar Baseline Data Collection
Background:
Mercy Corps is a humanitarian organization that has existed since 1979 to overcome poverty, inequality and suffering by developing safe and productive society. This organization has been growing and developing significantly, spreading across 80 countries including Indonesia and reaching approximately 2000 staffs working in 135 countries. Mercy Corps enter, exist, and operate since 1999 in Indonesia. Its existence growing become strongly since it is established Mercy Corps Indonesia Foundation (YMCI) in 2012. Nowadays, its activities implement in 10 provinces that aim to empower and strengthen the community by improving health equality, productivity, and resilient communities through various implementation program in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaption, economic and market system development.
USAID IUWASH Pasar is one of the list programs by YMCI funded by USAID, will get implementation in two provinces mentioned East Java and South Sulawesi. They have been divided across into 3 districts/cities of each including the City of Probolinggo and Parepare, the District of Probolinggo, Blitar, Wajo, and Sidendeng Rappang. It is also expected to catalyze and grow local markets in improving water and sanitation products and services. The main objectives of this program are to achieve 156,000 of people receive improved of service quality from an existing basic or safely managed drinking water services; achieve 156,000 of people gaining access to safely managed sanitation services; and strengthen 300 viable WASH enterprises to provide WASH products and services. To get these expectations, the program builds three focus areas of local market growth in IUWASH market activities, which are:
- Improved business environment to foster greater private sector contribution for WASH services and products;
- Enhanced viability of WASH businesses and increased availability of affordable, desirable WASH products and services to underserved market segments; and
- Improved key WASH behaviors for increased demand with correct and consistent use of WASH products and services.
Consultant Objectives:
The baseline study will focus on the collection of data or information for a set of the project indicators outlined in the AMEL Plan. The baseline study will collect those in key institutions the project has been engaging with, including government agencies, private sector institutions, including WASH enterprises and microfinance institutions within the six districts. As follows the main data required to collect, analyze, and interpret:
- Total populations divided by range of age, gender, income, job, level of education, marital status
- Households access to drinking water regarding drinking water ladder
- Households access to sanitation based on sanitation ladder
- PDAM customers
- Tanker operator service customers
- Private sectors (WASH entrepreneurs, private waste removal service providers, micro finance institutions, etc)
- Potential business development services
- Budget allocation for WASH sector from local government
- Budget capacity for WASH sector from private sectors
- WASH Business Environment Index
- Regulations or policies for WASH sectors
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