Programs and Organizational Learning Partner at Capyie NGO

The organization has also helped the start 600 youth micro businesses across the country and plans to expand this number to 4000 over five years

 

The most successful initiative of CAP YEI has been the Learn, Earn and Save initiative for Sub Saharan Africa, a five year project In Partnership with the MasterCard Foundation.

The first phase of this project run from 2011 to 2016 and was successful in reaching 14000 youth with employability skills and support, achieving a transition rate (from learning to earning or further learning) of 88% (employment – 75%, entrepreneurship – 8%, further learning – 5%).

This project has now been renewed for a further 5 years with the aim of scaling up and sustaining the program through partnership with the Government TVET system and the expansion of the training and entrepreneurship delivery components.

The key deliverables of this new partnership will include: directly training 23,000 youth; indirectly reaching and supporting 39,000 youth through the capacity building initiative and supporting the establishment of 4000 youth led businesses.

The organization aims to maintain a successful transition to employability rate of 75% and to also establish a level 2, post BEST training stream focused on providing additional skills and support to alumni.

 

CAP YEI is seeking the services of a learning partner to work with the organization during the implementation of this program by providing an external view of program implementation, results and processes, giving critical feedback and helping identify opportunities for improvement and growth.

This assignment has four broad objectives

1.3.1 Conduct annual impact assessment of the employability training and support including component: BEST, TVET capacity building, and entrepreneurship and provide feedback through a structured process that will include one annual report.

1.3.2 Design and apply tools and processes to assess the long term impact of CAP YEI’s program on Kenyan youth.

1.3.3 Assess and feedback on the potential policy implications of the CAP YEI program for the youth employability and skills sector in Kenya

1.3.4 Participate in peer review consultations with similar organizations with a view to identifying areas of improvements and or setbacks to help in “learning from others” and or maintaining quality and to identify potential for collaboration.

 

In view of the objectives described above, the successful learning partner shall:

1.3.1 Review the monitoring and evaluation (M & E) needs and plans of the said assignment and extract the relevant indicators that could be used to monitor the outputs.

1.3.1 Design the operating model and required tools of this partnership in collaboration with CAP’s relevant departments.

1.3.2 Prepare the documents necessary to guide both partners on the implementation of this assignment. This should include procedures and operating manuals that should guide project coordination in processing and disseminating information.

1.3.4 Develop data collection and reporting framework, instruments for capturing both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal and summative data and analyses.

1.3.4 Ensure that the data is analyzed and presented in a simple enough to understand manner and is disaggregated by different parameters such as gender, social economic situation, vulnerability and others

1.3.5 Support CAP YEI in hosting government, civil society peers, youth and other stakeholders through which such information can be shared for purposes of dissemination

 

The learning partner shall provide the following deliverables to CAP YEI:

 

The learning partner can be an individual, organization or institution with demonstrated skills and experience in carrying out similar activities.

A combination of the following experience and competences (preferably gained in the Africa region) are desired:

(i) Provision of TVET related learning/curricular at national or regional level

(ii) Demonstrated international and local operations or policy research experience.

(iii) Experience in youth education and training

(iv) Recent project experience in similar assignment(s).

(v) Demonstrated competence in monitoring and evaluation/auditing of educational and training projects and well versed in project cycle management.

(vi) Knowledge of market based, demand driven employability models and programming and strong experience in entrepreneurial research and development.

(vii) Capacity to engage University students in this work for purposes of their further learning and capacity building is desired, though not mandatory

 

1.7 Anticipated Duration: Initial appointment will be for two years but with possibility of extension by mutual agreement.

 

1.8 Confidentiality: The learning partner shall uphold integrity in the use of any confidential information received from CAP YEI or any other stakeholder affiliated to CAP YEI.

Such materials should be used exclusively for the purpose of preparing deliverables relevant to this assignment.

The confidentiality obligations shall not apply to any information already in the public domain.