Equality Insights Plus Survey Design Support

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International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)

Remote (global)
  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: Consultancy
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (global)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: AUD 10,000 AUD / Budget
  • Deadline: 30/03/2026
  • Location: Remote (global)
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CONSULTANCY BACKGROUND

Between 2009-2012, The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) tool was developed in partnership with the Australian National University. The tool design was informed by participatory research with more than 3,000 people with lived experience of poverty across 18 sites in six countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, including Angola, Fiji, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, and the Philippines.

Following the testing and refinement of the IDM measure, seven data collections took place between 2015 and2021. In 2020, IWDA took this work forward as a flagship program and rebranded from the IDM to Equality Insights. Building on the foundations of the IDM, Equality Insights had continued to adapt. In 2021, the IDM survey was reduced to a shorter variant, resulting in a 40% reduction in the number of questions (from 304 to 183). This reduced the survey duration and lowered the overall cost of administering the IDM survey. An analysis of 5 country studies, literature reviews, and discussions with subject matter experts was conducted to assess each question and justify each modification to the dimensions. The new Equality Insights Plus (EI Plus) survey was developed over a period of 4 months for a face-to-face survey administration.
Finalising and documenting the EI Plus survey was not completed due to a pivot to develop a remote-administered phone survey model that could be used in the Covid-19 context, called Equality Insights Rapid (EI Rapid), which was implemented for the first time in Solomon Islands and Tonga in 2022.

Both Equality Insights Plus and Equality Insights Rapid assess multidimensional poverty and in individual-level by measuring fifteen dimensions of life – clothing, education, energy, environment, family planning, food, health, relationships, safety, sanitation, shelter, time use, voice, water and work. They also assess financial circumstances by measuring assets.

CONSULTANCY OBJECTIVES
Objectives will involve the following for the 16 topics (15 Equality Insights dimensions plus assets)
  1. Present clear comparisons of indicators and questions across the three survey variants (IDM, EI Plus and EI Rapid)
  2. Collate existing decisions, and discussions which are documented in Equality Insights program files
  3. Clean and label Equality Insights Plus dataset to enable analysis
  4. A brief desk-based review and a high-level summary of current best practice standards and innovations indicators and data collection per thematic area.

Each of these objectives to be clearly presented in a report. While the only output is the report which is internally facing it is expected the consultant will meet with relevant Equality Insights team members at the commencement of the contract, to confirm project scope and process and at least once during the project to ensure the project is on track and meeting standards required.

REQUIREMENTS
This role is suitable to an early career or student researcher. (Basic quantitative data analysis skills are required.)
  • Research skills
  • Experience with survey data processing, including familiarity with Stata software.
  • Understanding of poverty measurement, and survey tools and design
  • Excellent attention to detail

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