Consultant for a Final Evaluation of the project "Youth Innovation Laboratory in the Great Lakes Region" (YouthLab) tendering at Interpeace
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Consultant for a Final Evaluation of the project "Youth Innovation Laboratory in the Great Lakes Region" (YouthLab) tendering at Interpeace

Deadline for applications: 10 March 2024

Start date: 20 March 2024

Expected end of assignment: 20 April 2024

Project area: in DRC: North Kivu: Goma and Nyiragongo, South Kivu: Bukavu and Uvira; in RWANDA: Kigali; in UGANDA: Isingriro District in Nakivale Refugee Camp and Ntungamu District, and Kampala; in BURUNDI: Ngozi, Cibitoke and Gitega.

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A. Introduction

Interpeace is an international organisation founded in 1994 that supports local peacebuilding initiatives around the world. Interpeace adapts its approach to each society and ensures that the work is carried out locally. Working with local partners, Interpeace jointly develops peacebuilding programmes and helps establish processes of change that link local communities, civil society, government and the international community. As a strategic partner of the United Nations, Interpeace is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices around the world.

For more information about Interpeace, please visit www.interpeace.org

In the Great Lakes region, Interpeace and its partners (RLP, CENAP, NAR, POLE, APC) have implemented the project "Youth Innovation Laboratory in the Great Lakes Region" which ended on 31 December 2023 and today, Interpeace is looking for a consultant (natural or legal person) to carry out the final evaluation of the said project.

The final evaluation is necessary to measure the results (changes produced directly by the action) and effects, the effectiveness and quality of the work carried out, the approaches developed and the lessons learned during implementation, in order to formulate guidelines for improving future interventions by Interpeace and other organisations working on the same theme in the Great Lakes region.

An external evaluation was chosen to help ensure the independence, impartiality and credibility of the process. Interpeace expects the evaluation to start at the beginning of March 2024, for a period of 30 days, including a minimum of 15 days for field data collection in the countries where the project is being implemented: DRC: North Kivu: Goma and Nyiragongo, South Kivu: Bukavu and Uvira; in RWANDA: Kigali; in UGANDA: Isingriro District in Nakivale Refugee Camp and Ntungamu District and Kampala; in BURUNDI: Ngozi, Cibitoke and Gitega .

With funding from the European Union, Interpeace and its partners (RLP, CENAP, NAR, POLE, APC) have developed a project to "promote youth leadership in regional peace processes" for the

Great Lakes region. The project contributes to the sustainable development objectives and to United Nations Resolution 2250, which aims to strengthen the participation of young people in decisionmaking processes.

The Youth Innovation Laboratory in the Great Lakes Region project was implemented in four countries (DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda) for a period of 2 years, ending on 31 December 2023.

The main objective of the evaluation is to determine the extent to which the project has or has not achieved the results assigned to it.

As a reminder, its overall objective was for young people in the Great Lakes region to increasingly influence and play a leadership role in regional peace processes through dialogue for collective action and advocacy.

To achieve this Global Objective, the project was structured around three specific objectives:

Specific objective 1: Young men and women have a common voice to urge political decision-makers to articulate their vision of peace in the Great Lakes.

Specific objective 2: Collective initiatives that bring together young men and women to contribute to sustainable peace in the Great Lakes region are undertaken by young people.

Specific objective 3: Support for young people's leadership in peacebuilding is increased through intercultural and intergenerational exchanges.

To achieve this, the project worked with communities, the authorities in the target countries, young people and civil society organisations in the target countries through a local partner for project implementation.

In view of the above, and given that the project is coming to an end, a final evaluation is necessary to examine the progress made by specific objective and indicator. It will also show to what extent the support provided in this area has achieved its objectives and to what extent it is still appropriate to mobilise the resources needed to implement the next phases of the project in the Great Lakes region.

Interpeace is therefore looking to recruit a consultant to carry out the final evaluation of the project. This evaluation includes the design of the methodology, the collection, processing and analysis of quantitative and qualitative information collected from project beneficiaries.

C. Aim and objectives of the evaluation
As stipulated in the project document, a final independent evaluation will take place at the end of the project. The valuation is being undertaken to provide an independent assessment of:

The design quality of the project;
Effectiveness in implementing the project in terms of achieving the planned objectives, including the mobilisation of state authorities and other stakeholders;
The strengths and weaknesses of the design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project;
Unforeseen results, positive or negative, arising from the implementation of the project;
Lessons learned and best practice from the project for the development and planning of future interventions;
Specific recommendations for any follow-up action required to effectively maintain or improve support for project outcomes, improve or rectify undesirable outcomes in the future.
The results of this evaluation will benefit not only Interpeace, APC, Pole Institute, NAR, CENAP, RLP and the European Union, but also other technical and financial partners and stakeholders involved in peace and security issues in the Great Lakes region.