SafePlus 2026 – 3 Year Followup Endline Survey
Data Analysis and Technical Assistance (DATA) is proud to begin field implementation of the SAFEPLUS Endline Survey, a large-scale panel study designed to assess the long-term impact of community-based interventions aimed at preventing child and early marriage.
The SAFEPLUS project began as a collaboration with the University of Kent and is now being implemented under King’s College London with partnership with BLAST. Following the successful completion of the baseline survey in 2023, DATA has once again been entrusted with implementing the endline survey to measure the impact of the project’s youth group intervention in promoting safer futures for adolescents and reducing the risk of child and early marriage.
The survey will cover 100 urban clusters across Dhaka, Patuakhali, Dinajpur, and Khulna. Alongside the panel survey, DATA is also conducting a rapid appraisal and listing exercise to identify households affected by migration and minimize sample attrition, helping preserve the integrity of this longitudinal study.
To prepare for fieldwork, DATA recruited a dedicated team of 40 field professionals, including supervisors, enumerators, and monitors. Over the past month, the team underwent an intensive training programme covering both the Guardian Questionnaire and the Beneficiary Questionnaire, as well as sessions on research ethics, safeguarding, interviewing techniques, and field protocols.
To bridge classroom learning with real-world implementation, the training concluded with a full-scale pilot exercise in an out-of-sample urban slum community. This practical field test provided interviewers with firsthand experience of the challenges they are likely to encounter during data collection, while allowing the research team to refine field procedures and strengthen operational readiness before the official launch of the survey.
Maintaining high data quality remains central to DATA’s implementation approach. Each interviewer is expected to complete four household interviews per day, with every submitted interview undergoing real-time data quality checks. All survey cases are managed through a centralized database, enabling continuous monitoring of field progress, rapid identification of operational challenges, and timely evidence-based decisions throughout implementation.
The study has received ethical approval from the King’s College London Research Ethics Committee, and every member of DATA’s field team was selected through a rigorous, multi-stage recruitment and assessment process to ensure the highest standards of professionalism, ethics, and research excellence.
As our teams approach the survey completion. We look forward to supporting high-quality analysis and interpretations by Kings College London that will contribute to stronger policies and programmes for protecting adolescents and preventing child and early marriage.
