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PROJECT DATA SHEET

2001

Project Name:

TA No. 3566-SAM: Capacity Building for Urban Planning Management: Community Survey

Country:

Samoa

Project Location within Country:

Apia Urban Area (21 villages)

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Name of Client

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Professional staff provided by your Company:

Project Manager

Research Assistants

No. of Staff: 11 (10 enumerators)

No. of Man-months: 4

Start Date: (Month/Year)

August 2001

Completion Date: (Month /Year)

November 2001

 

Name of associated firm(s) if any:

Virtual consulting Group (Principal consultant)

No. of man-months of professional staff provided by associated firm(s):

2 (consultation specialists)

Name of Senior Staff (Project Director/Coordinator: Team Leader) involved and function performed:

Maria Melei (Senior Consultant/Project Manager)

  • Project was lead by Ms Melei and duties included development of survey instrument, compilation of survey team, data process and analysis and report writing.

Detailed Narrative Description of Project:

This project was a sub-contract to Virtual Consulting Group (Australia) who was the principal consultant for the overall project. It involved conduct of a community survey of selected villages in the designated Apia Urban Area for several purposes. Initial consultations with different stakeholders of the project by the VCG community consultations specialists provided initial findings and the survey was primarily to gather quantitative results to verify the initial findings. The survey was undertaken by a survey team put together by KVA Consult, data processing and analysis were all done on SPSS internally as well as the report writing.

Detailed Description of Actual Services provided by your Company:

  • Initial consultations with principal consultants and relevant stakeholders
  • Assist with development and translation of final survey instrument
  • Put together survey team and provide basic training
  • Responsible for all logistical arrangements for survey (liaise with MIA, villages, etc)
  • Data entry, processing and analysis
  • Report writing