Provision to recruit a qualified research institution, firm, or consortium to design, implement, analyze, and report on a rapid telephone-based household survey on the impacts of the Middle East crisi

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2. Objectives and Scope of the Assignment Objectives The overall purpose of the assignment is to generate timely, credible, and policy-relevant evidence on how the Middle East crisis and associated economic shocks are affecting households and children in Sri Lanka, with a specific focus on vulnerability, coping, access to services, and social protection. Specific objectives are to: • Design and implement a rapid telephone-based household survey of approximately 1,500 households, including a nationally oriented sample and targeted oversampling of selected high-risk household groups. • Assess the impacts of the crisis and multiple economic shocks on household welfare, food security, livelihoods, remittances, service access, coping strategies, and child wellbeing. • Generate disaggregated analysis where feasible by geography, household type, livelihood group, sex of household head or respondent, disability status, presence of children, and other relevant vulnerability dimensions. • Provide actionable policy recommendations for child-sensitive social protection, nutrition, education, health and service continuity, and broader shock response. • Produce concise analytical and communication products that can support UNICEF programming, policy dialogue, advocacy, partner coordination, and resource mobilization. Expected results include a validated survey instrument, a completed telephone survey with quality-assured data, preliminary findings for rapid use, and a final analytical report with a policy brief and slide deck.