In September 2025, ICI will mandate an endline survey in 10 primary schools as well as focus groups in cocoa growing communities in Ghana for the project “Alliance for Change: Supported caregivers and thriving children”.

In September 2025, ICI will mandate an endline survey in 10 primary schools as well as focus groups in cocoa growing communities in Ghana for the project “Alliance for Change: Supported caregivers and thriving children”.

Project

ICI is seeking a consultant to conduct:

• a quantitative endline survey with teachers and children of 10 primary schools in 10 communities in Adansi Asokwa. Adansi North, Amensie Central and Amensie West Districts - Ashanti region, Ghana
• 10 focus groups with adults in 5 communities (2 per community)

The names of these communities will be provided by ICI.

Quantitative data will be collected from a sample of approximately 800 children and 40 teachers who were interviewed in September 2024, at baseline (longitudinal design).

Two questionnaires will be administered:

• Teacher questionnaire (administered at school, 10mn/teacher)
• Child questionnaire (administered to pupils at school, 30mn/pupil)

And a guide for focus group will be provided by ICI.

Authorization by the authorities to collect data in the primary schools as well as community entry will be facilitated by ICI.

Data will be collected with KoboToolbox forms and stored and managed on an ICI Kobo platform. The data will be used as part of a broader impact study to understand the impact of the “Alliance for Change” intervention.

Timeframe

Data collection must be completed in September 2025.

Requirements

ICI is seeking a consultant with proven experience conducting large-scale surveys of child labour, including interviews with children and focus groups, in rural areas of Ghana. Child and teacher interviews must be conducted by trained data collectors, with prior experience in interviewing children.

• Participation in the survey will be voluntary. Teachers will be asked to give their informed consent prior to starting interviews, children will be asked their assent.
• The consultant will use data collection tools developed by ICI, which have been extensively field tested and build on tried and tested methods of interviewing children about child labour. ICI staff will support the training of the data collectors on the use of these tools. Adjustments can be made in collaboration with the ICI team during the field-testing phase.
• Recognising that children involved in child labour represent a vulnerable population group, the consultant will follow local guidelines on working with vulnerable populations. For any children identified at immediate risk (for example a child in a situation of forced labour), an identification and referral process will be set up to ensure that follow-up and support can be provided.
• During data collection, each child, teacher and primary school will be attributed a unique identifier assigned at baseline, enabling personal data to be stored separately and ensuring anonymity of participants during the analysis phase.

Analysis

The consultant conducting the survey will be responsible for preparing:

• A clean dataset containing all key outcome indicators, accompanied by a comprehensive codebook and documentation of indicator construction, and short summary report with descriptive results on key indicators (basic demographic characteristics of teachers and children, child labour status), a description of the methodology followed, and additional observations during data collection.
• A summary of the salient comments and ideas shared during the focus groups.

Deliverables

The consultant will be responsible for providing the following deliverables:

• Approved workplan and schedule, including training plan
• Sampling of children within classes and schools (based on information provided by ICI)
• A clean dataset containing all key outcome indicators collected from the 800 children and 40 teachers, accompanied by a comprehensive codebook and documentation of indicator construction; each of the 2 data sets data must contain the unique identifier codes for children and teachers, based on the identifiers attributed at baseline, so that they can be matched from baseline to endline, and matched to primary schools
• A short summary report with descriptive results on key indicators (basic demographic characteristics, child labour), a description of the methodology followed, and additional observations during data collection
• A short summary of the key comments and ideas shared by adults during the focus groups.