Attention Alert! We seek tender applicants: Deadline by March 15

International NGO “Internews Network, Inc.”, implementing in Ukraine the USAID-funded project “U-Media”, invites you to participate in a tender for conducting the following surveys:

Media Consumption 2-stage survey

Research topics:

Public perception of the media,
Level of satisfaction with the quality of the regional media of all types,
Consumer preferences regarding the types of media that they prefer,
Consumption of different types of media,
Level of citizens’ media literacy,
Awareness of media ownership,
Awareness and understanding of reforms coverage (public service broadcasting, decentralization),
Awareness of level of corruption and media coverage of officials’ income and asset declarations.

Coverage: nationwide, Ukraine (obligatory oblasts (regions)) – Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk; additional oblasts – Volyn, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovograd, Luhansk, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnitsk, Cherkassy, Chernivtsi, Chernigiv).

Sample: 4-stage stochastic sample, representing demographic characteristics of the total Ukrainian population (no quotas). External quality criterion sampling – the compliance in twenty-four regions of Ukraine for citizens aged 18 to 65 years. Sample is based on representative survey of Ukrainian population of all settlements of 50,000+ population. Total sample should include a respective number of respondents to fulfill nationwide coverage. Most parts of the sample should be located in obligatory regions.

Methodology:

Face-to-face individual interviews with average length of 40 minutes
Focus groups for in-depth study of received information during fieldwork (8 locations, population 18-65 y.o., 8 respondents per group).

Presentation of results: PowerPoint presentation in English and Ukrainian branded according to requirements of the project.

Deadline for submission of tender proposals: by COB March 15, 2017. Send your proposals to: umedia@internews.org.ua

Timeline: Finalized documents should be ready for publishing by the end of June 2017.

– Poll journalists of regional and national media, online

Research Objectives:

Level of journalists’ professional knowledge,
Awareness of media law (access to information, defamation, protection of personal data, etc.)
Study the internal and external factors affecting the quality of journalists and fulfill their role in society, including employment, wages, moral foundations of journalists
Freedom of speech through the eyes of journalists and security issues

Sample: Total of 250 interviews of professional journalists working in national and regional media of various types, with maximum representation in the regions of Ukraine.

Methodology: On-line self-completion questionnaire (with telephone recruitment, invitation and support during the project), up to 60 minutes.

Presentation of results: PowerPoint presentation in English and Ukrainian branded according to requirements of the project.

Timeline: Finalized documents should be ready for publishing by the end of August 2017.