Save the Children was tasked with an external, multi-year, mixed method evaluation of an integrated nutrition and literacy program in Guatemala, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. STC implemented the LENS project over a period of five years with the project-level goal of improving literacy of school-age children by improving the quality of literacy instruction, student attentiveness and student attendance. The project aimed to reach 283 schools in six municipalities in the Quiché Department of Guatemala and have 111,343 beneficiaries throughout its lifetime.
J&A’s data collection activities included: recruiting enumerators, creating a schedule for data collection, arranging logistics for enumerator training, obtaining tablets and programming questionnaires for electronic data collection, translating questionnaires, pre-testing and piloting questionnaires, contacting schools in advance of data collection, procuring lists of students and teachers, securing consent, arranging logistics for transportation, interviewing, focus groups, overseeing data collection activities, implementing quality control, reporting, data entry and submitting complete clean datasets.
