Monitoring and Evaluation
18. Country Level Indicators (Commonwealth/UN)
Lack of age-aggregated data and specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound objectives is a global problem affecting the vast majority of youth plans and programmes.
The Commonwealth Plan of Action for Youth Empowerment 2007-2015 (PAYE) and the World Programme of Action for Youth (WPAY) are framework documents that provide ways forward. The PAYE underpins the work of the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP), and is offered as a model strategic plan for ministries of youth, but also calls for mainstreaming across departments. CYP and a number of UN system agencies are collaborating on next steps.
Youth Engagement Lens: Beneficiaries
Themes: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Operational Area: Monitoring and Evaluation
19. Youth Empowerment Programme (NAC, Uganda)
Youth-led monitoring and evaluation (M&E) facilitates the design of realistic and practical tools, as well as building transferable skills and ensuring that young people’s input to decision-making is informed and consistent.
The Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP)60 has young people leading field- based M&E as part of their activities on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), livelihoods and conflict resolution with their peers in schools and communities. Their experiences were discussed and recorded during a youth guidance project workshop in Uganda.
- 60. 2010-2012 funding from DFID-CSCF
Youth Engagement Lens: Beneficiaries, Partners
Themes: Governance, Voice and Accountability, Post-Conflict Transition and Livelihoods, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Operational Area: Monitoring and Evaluation
20. Measuring Adolescent Empowerment (UNESCO, Nepal)
In accordance with UNESCO’s strategy of action with and for youth, which strives to involve young people as equal partners in all aspects of project planning, implementation and evaluation, the Section for Youth collaborated with Youth Initiative to monitor and evaluate a pilot on ‘Breaking the poverty cycle of women’ in two districts of Nepal. Peer-group monitoring and evaluation was expected to generate a better reflective mechanism to evaluate progress from the recipients’ viewpoint and to contribute to the capacity-building of youth organisations active in social development. Youth Initiative was responsible for carrying out the M&E which was simultaneously conducted in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Themes: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Operational Area: Monitoring and Evaluation
