Donor: ERIKS, Wallace Global Fund and Dining for Women
Region: Narok, Kisii and Migori counties
The Health and Leadership Training Program was designed to empower adolescents by providing critical information at a time when they are at risk of undergoing FGM and being forced into an early marriages. Kakenya’s Dream has partnered with at least 80local schools since 2019 reaching 24,000 adolescents through the training. The program further aimed to improve their health and wellbeing by providing them with critical health and safety information aimed at reducing rates of FGM, early marriages, teenage pregnancies, and gender-based violence across Narok, Migori and Kisii counties.
The study assessed performance of the program against its intended objectives, as guided by its key performance indicators. In addition, the study assessed the impact and relevance of the program’s intervention on the participation of adolescent boys and girls in the Jijue Program; project management and activity implementation to address the results achieved and the partnerships established; and identified best practices for future engagement. The impact assessment was undertaken as per the OECD – DAC criteria mainly relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, scalability, coherence, and sustainability in relation to program’s outcomes and outputs, best practices and lessons learnt, and recommendations for future programming by Kakenya’s Dream. GARTS was involved in Designing and Executing the assessment – Data collection , Analysis and Report development.
