| Project Detail |
The development objective of Survey of Well-Being via Instant, Frequent Tracking (SWIFT) for Kurdistan Region Statistics Office (KRSO) Project for Iraq is to support the KRSO of the government of Iraq in collecting and analyzing a SWIFT survey for poverty monitoring in 2016 in Erbil, Duhok and Sulaimaniya. Survey of Well-Being via Instant, Frequent Tracking (SWIFT) is a short, tablet based survey that estimates poverty headcount rates based on a modeling exercise using most recently available household survey data. There is only one component of this project which is the implementation of the SWIFT survey for poverty monitoring in 2016. SWIFT is a new household survey instrument that projects consumption based on collecting 10 to 15 simple questions on poverty correlates such as education of the household head, ownership of consumer durables, household head’s employment status, among others. The main advantages of using SWIFT are saving time and reducing survey implementation costs. The set of activities financed by this grant includes from survey preparation and design, up-to data processing and dissemination. This grant of two million US dollars will also be used for purchasing some goods KRSO requires to conduct this survey. Note that the amount allocated for the latter is less than 20 percent of the total grant. Fieldwork is planned for the second half of 2016 in all governorates where feasible due to security constraints. This will likely exclude the three governorates currently under the influence of the Islamic State, unless the security situation improves significantly. The closing date is extended from April 30, 2017 to December 31, 2017 to complete the project activities. |
