Consultancy for Program Evaluation

Program Background

The Oslo Center (OC), with support from Uraia Trust, has been working to strengthen the youth’s knowledge and participation in political and Electoral processes in Kenya. The program aimed to build the capacity of the youth to get elected, contribute to campaign policy- and message development, and actively participate in peaceful elections.

The program’s main objective was to Strengthen Youth’s Knowledge and Participation in Political and Electoral Processes in Kenya. The program outcome focused around strengthening youth participation in the electoral process and was measured using two related outputs.

Output 1.1 Build youth’s capacity to be elected.

Output 1.2 Engaging youth in public to participate in elections and promotion of peace.

Target Groups

The program mainly targeted the youth, more specifically the youth within political parties, youth candidates, and youth in public. The program worked with the youth leagues from seven major political parties in Kenya.

Summary of Program Activities

The program activities included.

• Capacity building of the youth leagues in the development of training manuals.

• Capacity building of Youth League ToTs.

• Aspiring youth candidates’ training

• Townhall meetings for peace promotion.

• Digital meetings for peace promotion.

Context of the evaluation

The evaluation is set to take place in the month of September and will take about 20 days.

Purpose of the evaluation

The evaluation is oriented toward assessing the program achievements and learning towards future programming. Therefore, it shall, firstly, target the Program’s implementation dynamics and the level of achievement of its objectives. It shall help the Oslo Center to understand the results of the program and help the donor to understand the results of their funding. Secondly, it shall gather lessons learned, challenges faced, and best practices and use such insight to generate recommendations that can help the Oslo Center design and undertake similar initiatives in the future.

Objectives of the evaluation

The objectives of the evaluation are as follows:

1. To assess the extent to which the program has been relevant, effective, efficient, and has contributed to the achievement of the impact, and the outcome level results in relation to the four programmatic components.

2. Identify the results, impact, and successes of the program and how the results will define the next programming.

3. Identify key lessons learned and recommendations, strengths, and weaknesses of the program based on evidence, to improve relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of Program results, and also document knowledge basis on the program design and implementation to inform similar future initiatives.

Methods

The Program’s results chain was defined in a logical framework during the design phase. The logical framework included one outcome, which was broken down into two outputs using Outcome Mapping. The Program team, therefore, tracked instances of progress for each of the two outputs and the associated progress markers. The Evaluator shall consider the descriptions of progress as one of the key sources of evidence. It is expected that the evaluation will use Outcome Harvesting to identify key results of the program and measure to what extent has the program contributed to the overall objective. Other methods to be used include interviews and focus groups (including with the Program team).

Qualifications

The Evaluator – as a whole – must fulfill the following criteria:

● Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Sciences, or any other relevant field.

● Proven and strong track record of conducting Program evaluations in the field of democracy is required.

● Proven experience in conducting end-of-program evaluations in the field of democracy and governance.

● Strong understanding of Kenya’s youth demography.

● Experience working with political party officials, especially youth leagues and other representatives in the complex political processes in Kenya.

● Demonstrable previous experience in collecting project results using an outcome harvesting approach.

● Strong analytical and report writing abilities.

● Team player and willing to work with program staff, Political party officials, elected representatives, and government officials to discuss the administrative and technical pieces of the evaluation.

● Fluency in English, Kiswahili a plus.