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Endline Evaluation for the Tackling Sexual Exploitation of Children on the Kenyan Coast Project
Other Mombasa Details Employer Terre des Hommes Netherlands Company Industry NGO Work Type Contract Job Level Mid level Minimum Qualification Bachelor Years Experience 5 years Number of Positions 1 Description
The overall objective of the project is to contribute towards elimination of SEC in Kwale County by 2021
Intervention Details:
Project Title
Tackling Sexual Exploitation of Children (SEC) on the Kenyan Coast
Goal
The overall objective of the project is to contribute towards elimination of SEC in Kwale County by 2021.
Objective/s
Children (at risk and victims of SEC) engage duty bearers to raise child protection concerns and advocate for child rights on behalf of their peers. Families and Communities protect children from sexual exploitation Government agencies in Kwale County government adopt and develop a strategy for the implementation of the SEC National Plan of Action to respond to SEC in the Counties. Law enforcement agencies convict perpetrators of sexual exploitation of children. Private sector (formal and informal)adopts a code of conduct for their staff with regard to child exploitation and abuse. CSOs develop/revise their policies and activities to ensure children's best interests are served.
Location
Kwale County
Period
1 October 2018 - 30 September 2021
Beneficiaries
2,000 beneficiaries ( 1,090 girls and 910 boys) directly supported. 150 children (105 girls 45 boys) victims of SEC rescued, rehabilitated and reintegrated to their families, 300 (210 girls 90 boys) at risk children supported to reduce their vulnerability to SEC 1,550 children (775 girls, 775 boys) vulnerable to SEC (in and out of school) have enhanced capacities to protect themselves and other children. 1,850 club members organized in 31 clubs, trained as Child Rights champions who in turn create awareness to their peers reaching at least 13,330 children in the 31 schools. 450 parents/guardians supported to undertake income generating activities. 5,181 community members directly reached with awareness messages and further 500,000+ reached with mass awareness 135 government officials trained on SEC. Capacity building (training) of 60 law enforcers (judiciary and police) and at least 3 SEC cases concluded in favour of the child victims. Training and awareness raising with 200 business operators in the local transport, hotel, tourism and entertainment sector. 20 CSOs engaged through the Kwale Child Rights Network; and 30 local organisations (FBOs, CCIs, CBOs) engaged in the promotion of child rights and protection.
Implementing partner (s)
Terre des Hommes Netherlands Kenya Country Office (TdH-NL, KCO) and Kesho Kenya
2. Introduction
Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH-NL) is a child rights organisation dedicated to stopping child exploitation. In East Africa, Terre des Hommes Netherlands works in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. We support child victims of exploitation with education, psychosocial support, legal assistance, shelter, job opportunities and medical care; while at the same time targeting highly vulnerable children, who are at risk of being exploited, in our prevention activities. We launch public and media campaigns to create awareness on our focus issues and carry out local research into the extent and nature of abuse and exploitation of children.
Our Vision: Terre des Hommes Netherlands works towards a world where all children have a decent life and can grow up to be independent adults. A world in which children are no longer exploited. We will continue our work until this is accomplished.
Our Mission: Terre des Hommes Netherlands prevents child exploitation, removes children from exploitative situations and ensures these children can develop themselves in a safe environment.
TdH-NL implements development, humanitarian/relief and advocacy interventions in various parts of Kenya, supported by own TdH-NL funding and from various institutional donors and foundations. Our focus is to prevent child exploitation, remove children from exploitative situations and ensure these children can develop themselves in a safe environment. We also focus on capacity building and advocacy / lobbying, centered on the most vulnerable children in their immediate environment.
Our programmatic strategy is to partner with civil society organisations (CSOs).
In order to effectively combat child exploitation, TdH-NL has an integrated approach which is reflected in the organisation’s Theory of Change. Identification of key actors in bringing desired change among target children is done through a thorough analysis of long-term causes and medium-term barriers for change, as well as the potential to bring about change. Generally these actors consist of the children themselves, their families and communities around them, the private sector, government, law enforcement agencies and CSO. Actors are identified for each programme, per context.
This working structure is based on the assumption that a strong and united civil society, engaged in social change and capable of meaningful interaction with duty bearers and beneficiaries, can help the programme realise its objectives. Strengthening of civil society is thus an overall, underlying condition for the successful and sustainable implementation of change in the communities TdH-NL works in.
In Kenya, TdH-NL collaborates with Kenyan CSOs and networks in the execution of projects which aim to prevent child exploitation and provide assistance to exploited children. TdH-NL programmes are implemented in Nairobi, Nakuru, Coastal, Western and Northern regions of Kenya.
Project Background
Sexual exploitation of children (SEC) is widespread in Kenya affecting a significant number of children, mostly girls. Sexual exploitation of children mainly take place in bars, night clubs, disco halls, guest houses, streets, video dens, fishing areas, boda boda stages, matatu stages and premises which are hired specifically for under-aged girls and are used for sexual activities, and in homes where there is production and selling of illicit brews. Common perpetrators of SEC include boda boda riders, taxi drivers, matatu operators, truck drivers operating along the Mombasa to Lunga Lunga highway.
The main push and pull factors of SEC include: a thriving tourism industry including local tourism and local transporters e.g. boda bodas also contributing as perpetrators; socio-economic factors such as poverty and low literacy levels. Traditional and religious beliefs and practices such as child marriage in both Kilifi and Kwale, gender stereotypes and broader gender based violence also further predispose children to sexual abuse and exploitation. The general acceptance of violence, abuse, exploitation and violations within the community also means reporting of these incidences is low.
Although the Kenyan Government has shown some commitment towards addressing SEC especially by providing a legislative and policy framework, there has been little progress in translating these policies into actionable programmes.
The phenomenon has been of concern in the Coastal Region of Kenya, and it's against this background that TdH-NL in partnership with two partners designed the project titled: Tackling Sexual Exploitation of Children (SEC) on the Kenyan Coast.
Evaluation purpose and use
This evaluation is designed to provide documented evidence of changes brought about by the project, extract key lessons and promising practices which can be adopted for programming in SEC prevention. It will serve as an important accountability purpose for TdH-NL by identifying the extent to which outcomes and impact has been achieved. It will also serve to document what worked and what did not work with regard to efforts to prevent sexual exploitation of children. Being an end of project evaluation, it will help to document the gains made against the preceding evaluations. Both TdH-NL and its implementing partner (Kesho Kenya) will be the prime users of the evaluation. Moreover, the key learning/findings will be used by other Civil Society Organisations, Government (both national and County) and development partners.
Evaluation objectives
The main objective of the evaluation is to assess the level of achievement against the set objectives, document what worked and what did not work in tackling SEC and provide recommendations on best practices in prevention of SEC. It will examine the extent to which the project has delivered meaningful results for project beneficiaries, and identify key areas that can be replicated in similar interventions. Further, the evaluation will focus on the project design, implementation process, performance of the project, organisational management systems and how these have impacted on implementation of the project.
The specific objectives of this endline evaluation is:
(i) To examine the extent to which the project objectives have been achieved. Assess how the project contributed to the impact including key enabling and/or constraining factors that led to project achievements
(ii) To determine how the project benefited the beneficiaries.(include the two most significant change stories/case studies). Assess how it addressed barriers in prevention of SEC.
(iii) To examine the unintended/unplanned effects of the project among the target beneficiaries local communities and wider context.
(iv) To assess sustainability of key activities at t
