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Development Alternative Inc (DAI)
1.   BACKGROUND DAI Europe, together with consortium partners First Consult; Enclude; and ITAD, is managing the UKaid-funded Enterprise Partners (EP) which aim to support and transform the private sector and Ethiopia’s continued economic growth over seven years with a £15m grant fund. EP is utilising the Making Markets Work for the Poor approach (M4P) and has two main pillars to achieve the goal of integrating the poor, and especially women, in sustainable economic enterprises that create jobs and improve incomes. The planned impact is to create 45,000 jobs (75% of which will be held by women) and increase the incomes of 65,000 households by at least 20%.   The EP pillars are:  ·       The Finance Group aims to achieve the outcome of increasing investment levels in the Ethiopian economy, particularly for growth-oriented small and medium enterprise. This will include funding of green technologies where appropriate and develop funding for green growth investment. It also includes technical assistance facility to participating financial institutions for two WB-led initiatives, aiming to improve access to finance to SMEs with particular focus on SMEs engaged in manufacturing/agro processing/tour/construction sector and SMEs whole or partly owned by women[1].  ·       The Agro-Industrial Group is expected to achieve the outcome of increasing returns on investment (productivity) and investment levels in the identified sectors of cotton/textiles, livestock/leather and horticulture, in order to achieve the impact of creating jobs and raising household incomes. Additionally this pillar will incorporate the promotion of climate change awareness and addressing women’s economic empowerment.Background specific to this assignment In leather sector, EP works in two markets: tanning and leather products. Overall, EP aims facilitate an enhanced role played by chemical companies to support their client tanneries, as well as to improve the competitiveness of Ethiopian shoes & leather products through marketing, using the local supply of finished leather. Thus far, there are ten tanneries and eleven shoe factories that are involved in the leather sector interventions. This is the first baseline assessment for the beneficiaries/ employees in leather sector by Monitoring and Result Measurement (MRM). Even though, EP started to work in the sector before two years, the interventions have made little progress in terms influencing the shift in the core market, where the additional sales by the tanneries and shoe factories is expected to lead to additional and better jobs. Moreover, with the midline evaluation taking place for the same firms involved with EP, this baseline at the beneficiary level will help to triangulate the findings with the evaluation at the firm level. MRM will be responsible to fund and undertake the baseline assessment, as it applies for multiple industries in leather sector.  2.   PURPOSE The baseline will help to show the working conditions and challenges facing employees in the leather industries, in order to inform EP’s interventions. The purpose of the assignment is to collect primary data from the beneficiaries, who are the employees, in shoe factories and tanneries that are part of the two major interventions in leather sector. Moreover, data collection will use a tool developed by EP (draft attached to this TOR). 3.   SPECIFIC TASKS Deploy two enumerators for data collection by interviewing employees sample size 68 from an estimated 7,626 people working in tanneries and shoe factories that are part of the two interventions. With the margin error of 10% and confidence level of 90%, larger error are tolerated, as respondents are likely to divert from the true answer with the fear negative consequences in their jobs. To mitigate this, the interviews will be held outside of the factory or through phone calls. Organize the data collection process to ensure quality (including travel from outside of Addis Ababa) Enter the raw data in to the database4.     DELIVERABLES # Description of each deliverable Timeframe 1 Develop a detailed survey plan together with MRM   2 Deploy two enumerators    June 18 3 Conduct field data collection in Addis Ababa and Tigray   June 18 – 30 4 Develop a database (excel) together with MRM and enter the data   July 1 – 4 5 Submit both the raw data and the dataset to EP     July 5 – 6  [1] The projects are (1) Women Entrepreneurs Development Project (WEDP, 2013 – 2018) and (2) Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Project (SMEFP, 2016 – 2022).