Final Evaluation for “Enhancing Youth Employability”Project.

Project Overview

“Enhancing Youth Employability” is a three year TVET/LM project implemented by Islamic Relief Palestine (IRPAL) in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) during the period from ( Jan 2013- Feb 2016), in order to improve youth employability in the Gaza Strip while, at the same time, improving the overall TVET system in Gaza .The key objectives of the project was to adopt and implement key elements of the National TVET strategy in the Gaza Strip, revitalize the capacity of public TVET centers in terms of improved facilities and curricula and human resource that will contribute to the delivering of vocational training based on new national standards and successful trainees find employment. Its overall goal was to enhance employability of young women and men in the Gaza Strip through an improved and unified TVET system with public TVET centers providing trainees with labor Market relevant skills and employment services. With approaching the end of project, a final review was necessary to evaluate the progress realized, in addition to SDC decision to exit from the TVET sector and to focus only on skills development/vocational training in the field of agribusiness which led SDC to consider the importance of consolidating results of TVET projects and to the possible extend ensure sustainability and continuity. The main objective of this final evaluation was to provide a comprehensive and sufficient analysis of the project’s three years of operation (Jan 2013- Feb 2016)that by conducting an independent assessment of the level of achievement and impact of set targets and expected results- with a major focus on effectiveness and sustainability, outputs and outcome listed in the project’s documents and log frame, determine the successes and shortcomings, identify lessons learned and best practices, in addition to provide recommendations on how to improve sustainability of results while proposing options to further develop vocational training in the field of agribusiness particularly, in line with SDC’s new cooperation strategy of focusing on this sector only , in addition to provide recommendations for preparing the phasing out of IRPAL project , as well as for similar projects in future.