After completion of Microenterprise Investment and Kinship Demand survey in early 2020, Tanzania, just like the rest of the world was hit by COVID-19 with a huge impact on different sectors of the national economy. A component to assess the COVID-19 effect on small business enterprises was introduced in the study where the component was administered to all the MIKD participants as part of the study.

MISSR leading roles:

In this assignment, we were responsible for the following activities

  1. Preparation and programming electronic survey instruments (including translation)
  2. Hiring and training survey enumerators;
  3. Carrying out a piloting study, and baseline survey,
  4. Rolling out a intervention of cash transfer to subset of our selected sample,
  5. Carrying out about 4 phases of phone follow-up rounds to both treated units between August 2019 to March 2020
  6. Conducting data quality control and field work monitoring,
  7. Carrying out an endline survey, and
  8. Data processing and cleaning
Client:

University of British Columbia

Location:

Dar es Salaam and Dodoma Regions

 

Sector:

Dar es Salaam and Dodoma Regions

Funded by

University of British Columbia

Date:

June 2020 to September 2021

 

Service Line:

June 2020 to September 2021

MISSR