Final Evaluation Report: Supporting a Conversation with Youth on Leadership in Côte d’Ivoire

The “Supporting a Conversation with Youth on Leadership in Côte d’Ivoire” Project was carried out over an 18 month period (September 2008-May 2010) with support from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. This internal and external evaluation was undertaken over one month from July 12, 2010 until August 12, 2010 with a focus of two of the seven geographic areas of the project. The general purpose of this final evaluation is to provide a platform for learning, with insights into relevance, effectiveness, coherence and coordination. The evaluation formulates recommendations which could be useful for similar projects in the future, but also gives substantive accountability to the donor on the project achievements. To that end, the evaluation has gathered both qualitative evidence – to put lessons learnt in context – , and quantitative facts and figures to reinforce these findings. The project itself had three-fold objectives:

• (1) increase youth’s knowledge and skills of conflict resolution concepts and techniques as well as democratic principles and values, including diversity and tolerance;
• (2) build youth’s confidence to play a key role in preventing manipulation and violence around the democratic process; and
• (3) promote and depoliticize the dialogue among diverse youth groups. Ultimately, the evaluation found that the project was effective at meeting all three objectives and relevant to the context in which the project was implemented.

• Read the Final Evaluation [ English ]
• Read the Key Findings [ English ]
• Read the Case Study[ English ]
• Read the Narrative Report [ English ]