PROJECT TITLE: Third party monitoring of child and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan (CATI Survey)

CLIENT: The International Labour Organization

PERIOD: october-november 2019

PROJECT AIM: Conduct a nationwide CATI survey on recruitment practices and working conditions during the cotton harvest 2019. The methodology of the 2019 TPM included fields monitoring during September-November.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTUAL SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE ASSIGNMENT: Conduct of a nationwide CATI survey on recruitment practices and working conditions during the cotton harvest in 2019. The methodology of the 2019 TPM included fields monitoring during September-November period. It assessed how the actual recruitment was undertaken, whether the protective measures were being followed in practice and whether they had been grasped by cotton pickers, especially in the locations of World Bank-financed projects. The monitors visited the fields. Active discussion with cotton pickers, brigade leaders, farmers, managers, employees, students/pupils, local officials of relevant ministries/organizations, and pakhtashtabs has been held.

The sampling and questionnaires were developed by the ILO project team and finalized by the Al Mar.

1.Finalization of questionnaire in Uzbek, Russian, and English languages;

2.Programming of questionnaire for use in CATI;

3.Conduct of 150 pilot phone interviews;

4.Conduct of 6000 phone interviews in Uzbek and Russian, including 900-1100 interviews with cotton pickers. Two types of questionnaires were used a) for people who participated in cotton picking in 2019 (900-1100 interviews, one interview took 10-20 minutes) and b) for people who did not participate in cotton picking in 2019 (4900-5100 interviews, the interview took 2-3 minutes);

5.Submission of unprocessed and cleaned database in SPSS formats.