CAP Youth Empowerment Institute - Final Evaluation Report

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Title
CAP Youth Empowerment Institute - Final Evaluation Report
Author
Ricardo Ramirez; Galin Kora; Julius Nyangaga; Dal Brodhead
Year
2015
Abstract
The CAP-Youth Empowerment Institute (CAP-YEI) introduced the Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST) model to Kenya in 2011 as part of a 5-year project funded by the Mastercard Foundation. The program targets rural and urban and peri-urban youth and provides short term employability skills training courses that are labor market oriented and job placement linked. It emphasizes a life skills component for building self-confidence, work readiness and a desire for life achievement. The program integrates financial literacy into skills training and connects youth to institutional service providers for savings and finance. The evaluation approach was based on a utilization-focused evaluation (UFE) decision making framework- one that emphasizes ownership of the evaluation design by primary evaluation users. The primary evaluation user team was made up of staff from CAP-YEI in Nairobi, from the CAP Workforce Development Institute, and from the Mastercard Foundation in Toronto. The data collection process combined- site visits, documentation review (that included findings from the first four years of a University of Minnesota longitudinal study), focus group discussions with key stakeholders, semi-structured interviews, SWOT analysis, and theory of change diagrams.
Resource Subject
  • Training
  • Youth Employment
  • Youth
Keywords/Access Points
New Economy Development Group; CAP Youth Empowerment (CAP-YEI); Basic Employability Skills Training (BEST); Methodology; Expansion; Employment
Geographic Locations
  • Kenya
Language
  • English
Demographic Groups
  • Youth
Special Collections
  • Knowledge Exchange Resources
Archival Record ID
MFA.2024.1138