East Meets West Foundation (EMW) is partnering with Evidence Action and the Vietnamese government to implement the “Vietnam Integrated Deworming, Sanitation and Hygiene” project in Phu Tho, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An.
One of the key aims of the program is to assess if adding hygiene education to deworming campaigns can improve the success of deworming by reducing the reinfection rate in children. There is a general assumption that greater knowledge of health and sanitation issues amongst children will lead to greater and longer-term reductions in reinfection compared to deworming alone, but there is a lack of rigorous studies to confirm this. In order to address the lack of evidence, this program will implement an integrated deworming and hygiene education program which will be rigorously evaluated by a cluster and block randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the impact of such an integrated approach. It is anticipated that this large-scale RCT will provide evidence about whether the hygiene education component is successful and cost-effective at reducing reinfection among school-age children when combined with school-based deworming. This RCT will be implemented in Phu Tho, and the results of this research will be used to inform the design of a nationwide integrated deworming and hygiene education program.
EMW seeks a partner to conduct field-based surveys for the RCT. Firms interested and able to provide the required technical and logistical support for this study are invited to submit a proposal which addresses the scope of work described in this document.
The deadline for application is 25 July 2015.