Project Stakeholders
Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD): a local donor foundation established in 2001 with an endowment from the Sawiris Family, since its establishment, SFSD focused on addressing the most pressing issues facing the most marginalized Egyptians such as poverty, unemployment, provision of health services, and little access to quality education. Over the past 18 years, SFSD has succeeded in funding and delivering programs aimed at achieving comprehensive and sustainable development, in partnership with the governmental and private sectors, as well as civil society. This has resulted in the creation of thousands of job opportunities, availing quality education, and providing access to basic services for more than 280,000 beneficiaries. The geographical coverage of the foundation includes 24 governorates, with a focus on the most remote marginalized villages.
Shabab Masr NGO: The Youth of Egypt Association for Community Development was founded in 2012 in Fayoum Governorate to serve the local community and promote its development. The association’s mission is to achieve a broad range of national, social, and cultural objectives by contributing to the provision of social and humanitarian services and enhancing human capacity within the scope of available resources and approved programs.
The association is committed to maintaining continuous and effective collaboration with all relevant government bodies and institutions involved in development and collective action. It actively participates in advancing Egypt’s national and developmental goals. The association provides support to all segments of society, with a particular focus on marginalized groups, including the poor, people with disabilities, and youth. Through its initiatives, the association seeks to integrate beneficiaries into social development efforts, ensuring they fully benefit from its programs, while fostering strong community ties across all social groups.
Additionally, the association offers a variety of training programs designed to equip young people with the practical, scientific, cultural, and technical skills they need to succeed. These programs aim to nurture their talents, broaden their skill sets, and help them realize their aspirations and future ambitions.
About the Project
In Egypt, people with disabilities make up more than 10%, or about 15 million, of the country’s population. Many of them are severely marginalized; they face daily struggles with transportation and lack of access to public services such as health and education. People with disabilities are often stigmatized and discriminated, which compromises employment opportunities and negatively affects the mental health of the individuals and their families.(Institute of Development Studies, 2018). Although strategies and national policies have been formulated to ensure equal educational opportunities for children with disabilities, poor households consider education less important for disabled children; only 2% of students with disabilities actually attend school, which affects their future employability (Kassab et al., 2018).
In the governorates of Upper Egypt, the situation is even more difficult, as many people with disabilities have fewer opportunities to find adequate professional, financial and psychological support. Many employers do not provide the necessary accommodations for persons with disabilities and an inclusive work environment, reflecting a lack of confidence in their abilities, which negatively affects the employment rate of persons with disabilities. Self-employment could be an interesting alternative to wage employment thereby circumventing the problem of hesitancy among employers to hire people with disabilities but disabled people are often also compromised in their ability to get loans or find financial resources otherwise to start their own business. Disabled people thus face multiple challenges simultaneously and typically face much higher risks of getting trapped in a vicious cycle where lack of education and work opportunities worsen their already precarious socio-economic and psychological state.
A better understanding on how to improve social and economic inclusion of the disabled poor is therefore imperative to promote sustainable and inclusive development in Egypt and elsewhere. Thus, an impact evaluation will be done in collaboration with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) as an integral part of Eradty project with two main objectives: i) measure the effectiveness of direct social assistance programs, i.e. are zero-interest loans effective in promoting (self) employment and improving socio-economic outcomes and wellbeing of disabled persons and their families. ii) comparing low- and high- costs psychological interventions that may generate differences in take-up rates, retention, spillovers, decay time of results, and ultimately their relative cost-effectiveness.
Objective
SFSD is seeking to engage a professional data collection firm to conduct baseline data collection on project beneficiaries and their network members in Fayoum Governorate. The selected firm will be responsible for designing and implementing an effective strategy to ensure high-quality data collection. To maximize the response rate and encourage participation, the firm is expected to provide appropriate incentives to survey respondents, ensuring the successful administration of the questionnaire.
Geographical Scope of Work
SFSD and Shabab Masr is implementing the project all over El Fayoum governorate 8 districts:
Expected Outputs
Deliverables of the consultancy include the following:
The expected time to conduct the task
The baseline study will be conducted on several batches, thus the baseline data collection is expected to be completed along 36 months with possibility for extension.
Task Management
The consulting firm will be reporting to the Project team leader at Shabab Masr. A biweekly check-in meeting should be arranged between JPAL, SFSD, Shabab Masr and the consultancy firm.
SFSD has the right to supervise the data collection process as they see fit, in addition to sharing a list of individuals that were part of the sample used in the data collection process. Finally, the data collection firm is fully responsible to ensure that the research and data collection process is following Research Protocols | IPA (poverty-action.org)
Timeline
| Task | Deadline |
| Signing contract | Jan 2025 |
| Applying for CAPMAS Approval | Jan 2025 |
| Enumerator training | Feb 2025 |
| Pilot surveys | Feb 2025 |
| Data collection | Feb 2025 |
Confidentiality and Record of Right
All materials, reports, and other documents produced by the consulting firm under this consultancy will be the sole property of SFSD. The consulting firm will maintain a high level of confidentiality with external actors/stakeholders, concerning all the materials and reports produced under the consultancy. For any use of the produced materials/reports/documents, other than for the purpose of the projects, the consulting firm must receive consent from SFSD in writing. The consulting firm must abide by Egyptian law regarding data collection.
Selection Criteria of Consulting firms
Team Structure
We expect a team consists of several field supervisors, each field supervisor oversea 4 to 5 enumerators, in addition to a field manager and quality controller to which the supervisor reports.
Responsibilities of Field Manager:
Responsibilities of Field Supervisors:
Responsibilities of Quality Controller:
Responsibilities of Enumerators:
Data Management
The Data Collection Firm will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust data management process to ensure the accuracy, security, and integrity of the data collected during the baseline survey. The specific tasks include:
Deliverables to the Research Team
Deliverables include the following:
Respect – Equality – Trustworthiness – Cooperation – Team Work.
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