Baseline Training and Field Work

On the second of September 2014, Veasna, ADRA Cambodia's Monitoring and Evaluation for Learning Coordinator, with support from Lim Sophorn, also an ADRA staff from Phnom Penh, lead in baseline survey training at ADRA's office in Pursat province. The training took place over one day. The baseline survey training for CHOICES gave an overview of the project to the interviewers and supervisors to understand the purpose of the baseline and introduced the questionnaire to measure the baseline on nutrition, sanitation & hygiene, migration and savings group for project indicators.

The survey is being conducting in 30 clusters throughout the CHOICES target area of 60 villages in Bakan district. Survey questions will be asked of parents of children under 5 years old. Questions are about nourished children, sanitation & hygiene. The fieldwork will be done over 12 days excluding Saturday.

Here are some pictures from the training and field work:

Training at the ADRA office in Pursat

Survey training at the office.

Sophorn training how to measure using measure boards borrowed from UNICEF.

Sophorn and Veasna demonstrating how to measure a child who can stand.

Sophorn weighing a child held safely in his mother's arms. The new CHOICES project scales purchased from UNICEF have a TARE function that calculates the weight of the mother first and then calculates the child's weight when she picks him up.  This results in less human error and happier babies and children!

Sophorn measuring the arm circumfrance of the same child.

With community members during field testing

Sophat with community members during field testing.

The baseline survey team (including Health Center staff who are assisting)

This quantitative survey and collection of anthropometric data is the first part of the baseline.  It will be followed by qualitative data collection through participatory evaluations.