CAP Youth Empowerment
Institute, Kenya
Terms of Reference
Assignment: Programs
and Organizational Learning Partner
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration of Assignment: Two Years
Expected Start Date: February 2017
This is done through the
Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) model, which was developed by CAP
Foundation.
This dynamic, demand-driven
market-based model has been successfully applied in more than 10 countries in
Asia and Africa, benefiting over 200,000 youth.
In 2015, the model was voted
one of the leading models for youth skills training Africa following a
continent-wide competition organized by the Africa Union.
Using the BEST model, CAP YEI
aims to provide basic work entry level skills for disadvantaged youth in Kenya
with particular focus on the poor and other vulnerable youth who may not have
any opportunity to continue with higher education and training.
CAP YEI targets youth for
obvious reasons:
(i) to help reduce their
vulnerability to participate and involve others in extremism and violent
crime;
(ii) support government
policy to create employment and achieve its 2030 blue print.
The basic approach used to
address (ii) is by facilitating the youth to access promising labor market
oriented opportunities, savings, and credit that support their pathways to safe
and positive futures.
To ensure countrywide youth
support, CAP YEI has also extended its focus from previous demonstration and
replication training centers to broader approach through empowering TVETs and
Vocational Training Centers to increase the outreach of the program by creating
local applying some of the principles of the BEST model.
The aim is to build capacity
by integrating the most successful elements of the BEST model into the TVET
curriculum and processes and this way support the application of the Competency
Based Education and Training (CBET) framework of the government.
To deliver its programs CAP
YEI has now established a nationwide network comprising 20 training centers and
over 1500 employer, business and mentor partners.
CAP YEI is also working with
46 VTC partners under the capacity building component and intends to expand
this to 100 partner VTC’s.
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
1.2 In Partnership with the
MasterCard Foundation
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.
1.3 Learning Partner
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.
1.4 Detailed Description of
the Scope of Work
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
1.5 Deliverables
The learning partner shall
provide the following deliverables to CAP YEI:
1. A
manual outlining in detail the partnership model to be applied in the
partnership, which should include detailed activities to be undertaken to
provide the required services. This should include a section that sets out the
needs of CAP YEI in relation to the assignment and Project M & E
indicators.
2. A
presentation to CAP YEI in respect of the said model and within two after such
presentation, provide a revised inception report.
3. Timetable
with complete timelines on how the exercise shall be conducted and when the
survey reports shall be disseminated.
4. One
Evaluation report every year providing details and summary of findings and
recommendation for improvement
5. Participation
in one dissemination workshop each year bringing together CAP YEI staff and
partners as well as other peer organizations to review findings and make
recommendations for the future
6. At
least three communications products (summaries, articles, presentation) based
on the learning partnership and findings provided to CAP YEI
1.6 Required Competencies
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.
1.9. Application Process
Interested and qualified
applicants are invited to send their applications to: learning@capyei.org by 15th January 2017.
The applicant should provide:
(i) All relevant information
providing proof of experience and competence
(ii) A technical application
demonstrating briefly how the applicant would perform the job as defined in
this TOR
(iii) Financial estimate of
costs – total budget should not exceed $25,000 per year.