END OF PROJECT EVALUATION – EMPOWERED YOUTH GENERATION IN GOVERNANCE PROJECT

1. Introduction
The Oslo Center was founded in 2006 and has developed into a focused and professionally strong democratic support organization focusing on supporting democratization processes. The Oslo Centers’ vision is to support democratic systems that are responsive to citizens’ needs and respect their meaningful participation, human rights, and human dignity. The Oslo Center’s approach to democracy assistance is by working with local partners and providing technical assistance to promote and enhance democratic practices by strengthening governance, political and government institutions, and civic spaces.
The Oslo Center works in Kenya to promote democracy through the provision of technical expertise to
institutions of democracy and governance such as political parties, parliament, regulatory bodies such as the election management bodies, and the registrar of political parties.

2. Background
The Empowered Youth Generation in Governance (EYGG) project seeks to promote the meaningful
participation of youth in decision-making by advocating for accountability and promoting responsive
government structures. The activities focus on enhancing the capacity of youths, establishing accountability hubs, and creating a bridge between the youth and county governments to promote accountability and service delivery.
The project worked closely with Youth Leagues from seven main political parties, the Kwale Youth Assembly, and the Nandi County Youth Network and established an 11-member accountability hub task force that provided stewardship to the project implemented in two counties namely Kwale and Nandi.
The project worked to strengthen youth engagement in the governance process through social accountability frameworks that will enhance promoting accountability and better service delivery.
The Oslo Center (TOC) is therefore recruiting a consultant or a legal entity (hereafter: the “Evaluator”) to
conduct an end-of-project evaluation that will take place in November and December 2023.

2.1 Project Background
The Oslo Center (TOC), with support from Uraia Trust, has been implementing the Empowered Youth
Generation in Governance. The project’s main objective is to strengthen youth engagement in the governance process through social accountability frameworks that will enhance promoting accountability and better service delivery in Nandi and Kwale counties. The Project has three main outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Increased youth capacity to meaningfully participate in promoting accountable
  governance.
• Outcome 2: Increased youth civic responsibility to advocate for accountability in governance
  structures.
• Outcome 3: Improved elected youth’s responsiveness to youth and community issues

The Project has six outputs.

• Output 1.1: Increased youths with skills in social accountability approaches in the target
  counties.
• Output 1.2: Social accountability hubs/platforms established by the project in the target
  counties.
• Output 2.1: Youths actively engage in promoting accountability within governance structures.
• Output 2.2: Civic actions undertaken by youths to demand better service delivery from County Governments.
• Output 3.1: Elected youth representatives publicly engage with youth through town hall
  meetings.
• Output 3.2: Actions/commitments/feedback provided by duty bearers to respond to youth
  demands.

2.2 Target Groups
The Project targeted youth from seven political parties as well as those in Nandi and Kwale counties to
effectively engage with the governance structures.

2.3 Summary of Project Activities
The Project activities were organized along the outputs and included.
▪ Identification of Ten Member Youth Taskforce
▪ Training on Accountability Frameworks and Development of Accountability Tool.
▪ Identification of County Accountability Champions.
▪ Cascade training for Ward Level accountability champions.
▪ Development of policy proposals (Memorandums and Petitions)
▪ Digital and Mainstream media sensitization campaigns on accountability
▪ Consultative meeting between youth and youth MCAs
▪ Consultative meeting between the youth and County Executive

3. Context of the evaluation
The evaluation is set to take place in November and December 2023 and take about 20 days.

4. Purpose of the evaluation
The evaluation is oriented toward assessing the Project’s achievements and learning toward future
programming. Therefore, it shall, firstly, target the Project’s implementation dynamics and the level of
achievement of its objectives. It shall help the Oslo Center to understand the results of the Project 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.

5. Objectives of the evaluation
The objectives of the evaluation are as follows:
1. To assess the extent to which the Project has been relevant, effective, efficient, and has contributed to the achievement of the impact, and the outcome level results in relation to the project
components.
2. Identify the results, impact, and successes of the project.
3. Identify key lessons learned and recommendations, strengths and weaknesses of the Project based
on evidence, to improve relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of Project results, and
document knowledge basis from the design and implementation to inform similar future initiatives.

For Further information download the TOR from the link below:

https://oslocenter.no/careers/