Deadline: 28-Jul-23
The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) has announced a call for proposals to contribute to the strengthening of female and male youth leadership capacities for a nonviolent, free, and inclusive 2022 electoral process in Kenya.
Life & Peace Institute has been implementing the Kijana Jihusishe: “Youth promoting peaceful elections in Kenya” project for 18 months from 2022 -2023 in Nairobi (Dagoretti, Kayole, Kibera, Korogocho and Mathare), Mombasa (Kisauni and Nyali) , Marsabit (Moyale and Sololo) and Garissa (Iftin, Galbet and Waberi). The primary targets have been selected youth in these locations, civil society, peace structures, security actors at local and national levels, local authorities, elders, county and national government representatives, political actors and local elites – in addition to other secondary target groups. The Kijana Jihusishe: Youth Promoting Peaceful 2022 Elections in Kenya project was funded by the European Union with the primary goal of strengthening of female and male youth leadership capacities for a nonviolent, free, and inclusive 2022 electoral process in Kenya.
The implementing organizations are the Life & Peace Institute (Nairobi and its environs), Kesho Alliance (Garissa), Strategies for Northern Development (Marsabit), and Uzalendo Afrika (Mombasa). As part of the project, LPI and partners implemented conflict assessments; community dialogues which took various forms such as Sustained Dialogues (SD) and roadside; advocacy for peace efforts, townhall meetings, and creation of critical linkages towards promoting sustainable peace. The post electioneering period was marked by the implementation of SD – bringing female and male youth together to engage in dialogues with each other (and with security actors and other relevant stakeholders) over the course of seven months. The SD approach is utilised by LPI in a number of diverse contexts and evidence from other project evaluations has shown that it contributes to improved relationships between participants and bolsters the confidence of young people to communicate their concerns to relevant stakeholders. The implementation of this project is aligned to the Kenya National Action Plan II Res. 1325 that focuses on Women Peace and Security as well as issues on Youth Peace and Security.
Expected Results
- Result 1: Local implementing partners and civil society have coordinated and collaborated to design tailored interventions to engage vulnerable populations for peaceful electoral processes.
- Result 2: Diverse female and male youth have been capacitated to participate in electoral and governance processes to support inclusive issue-based and accountable politics and have identified and articulated their needs and potential positive roles in peace and security in community dialogues.
- Result 3: Community stakeholders and engaged policymakers have an increased awareness of the importance of sustainable youth inclusion in peaceful electoral and political processes and effective community-level response mechanisms.
- Result 4: A learning platform for engaged stakeholders has been established and used to promote the importance of youth inclusion in political processes broadly and violence prevention specifically.
Outputs
- Output 1: Local implementing partners and civil society have coordinated and collaborated to design tailored interventions to engage vulnerable populations for peaceful electoral processes.
- Output 2: Diverse female and male youth have been capacitated to participate in electoral and governance processes to support inclusive issue-based and accountable politics and have identified and articulated their needs and potential positive roles in peace and security in community dialogues
- Output 3: Community stakeholders and engaged policymakers have an increased awareness of the importance of sustainable youth inclusion in peaceful electoral and political processes and effective community-level response mechanisms.
- Output 4: learning platform for engaged stakeholders has been established and used to promote the importance of youth inclusion in political processes broadly and violence prevention specifically.
The evaluator will have access to existing project information and data, including: detailed description of outcomes, outputs, strategic approaches, project locations, log-frame, and baseline assessments.
Budget
- LPI will pay a daily fee for an agreed number of payable days. The number of days will be agreed upon informed by the technical proposal of the evaluation team. The fee will be subject to negotiation. In addition, LPI will cover all reimbursable costs for required travel as well as data collection and other review activities in the project sites.
Timeline
- The evaluation preparatory steps will be undertaken in August 2023, and data collection should be conducted mid-August. LPI hopes to receive the final report at the latest by the second week of September. A detailed implementation plan will be discussed by LPI and the evaluator prior to commencement of the evaluation.
Locations and Travel
- Data collection will require travel to key project locations in Nairobi (Dagoretti, Kayole, Kibera, Korogocho and Mathare), Mombasa (Kisauni and Nyali) , Marsabit (Moyale and Sololo) and Garissa (Iftin, Galbet and Waberi) in close collaboration with the LPI team and partner organisations.
Audience
- The primary users of this evaluation will be the LPI Kenya Programme Team, the implementing partners – Kesho Alliance (Garissa), Strategies for Northern Development (Marsabit), and Uzalendo Afrika (Mombasa); funding partner (EU; LPI’s Strategic Leadership Team and most importantly those with whom the project directly worked with. LPI also strives to ensure that evaluation findings reach and are understandable for other stakeholders – such as relevant government authorities, peer organisations, and funders and partners in LPI’s other programmes.
Evaluation Purpose
- Consistent with LPI’s commitment to accountability and applying lessons learned to improve programming, the purpose of the final evaluation is to investigate the extent to which the Kijana Jihusishe: “Youth promoting peaceful elections in Kenya” project has achieved its objectives in the target counties.
- The evaluation will also assess the value of the project’s approaches to inter-county programming, learning, and policy influence in order to inform best practice and future programme design – in Kenya and across other LPI country programmes.
- The evaluation will mainly reflect upon 18 months of the Kijana Jihusishe: “Youth promoting peaceful elections in Kenya” project with the aim to Assess the effectiveness and alignment of project outputs and outcomes (planned and unplanned) and extract lessons for programme improvement.
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