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Project-Design-&-Development

In January 2018 our team was awarded a contract to undertake a data entry service for entering a backlog of case management data into a cloud-based database for KCHPF Project.
Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. We welcome as a part of our staff and as partners people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.

In September 2014, 4Children is a USAID-funded consortium of organizations led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) with partners IntraHealth, Maestral, Pact, Plan and Westat. The project aims in part to strengthen and build the evidence base for effective Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programming through research and evaluation. Working with a team of leading experts in child protection and OVC, the project will design and implement assessments, evaluations and other special studies of new and ongoing projects and portfolios.

With dedicated funding from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund at USAID (DCOF), 4Children includes an applied research project called “Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families,” (KCHPF) which focusses on strengthening family care among households where there is a high risk of children separating or where children can be reintegrated after having been placed in residential care.

In Uganda, KCHPF is being designed as an operational research project that will support the reintegration of children living in residential care back into family-based care, evaluating the impact of a package of family support interventions on successful reintegration. The package to be tested will include reintegration case management, cash grants and parenting training interventions. The project will include different groups of families and children being serviced by different interventions to compare their impact over time.

The objective of this consultancy is to enter a backlog of case management data into a cloud-based database. There are 400 case files to be entered into the system. Each case file consists of five forms, which contain various types of data, ranging from discrete fields (e.g., name, residence, demographics) to hand-written, qualitative notes (e.g., child and family perspectives on reintegration). All data will need to be entered and checked for accuracy. Each complete case file is estimated to take 30 minutes to enter into the database. Some of the tasks undertaken include;

  • Produce a final, clean dataset of all backlogged case management data. The data currently exists on paper files. The consultant(s) will be asked to enter the data captured on the paper files into an online database.
  • Before producing the final dataset, the consultant(s) will conduct a spot check (20%) of participant level data to confirm precision. Errors will be corrected throughout the dataset.