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This project is envisaged to contribute towards growing Afrocentric bodies of knowledge and evidenced-based systems, with youth, by youth and for youth, to enable and foster the inclusion of marginalised groups. It aims to catalyse transformational systems by cantering African approaches and influencing evidence-use in priority countries, working with government institutions, civil society leaders and development partners.

Through its Afrocentric, two-phased design, a project can shift the power dynamic in African Evaluation and evaluations in Africa. As part of its offering following the project, Tiyimele Consultants intends to launch an online six-week module on Afro-centric evaluation approaches. This module will serve as the nucleus of the evaluation products developed and disseminated due to this project. Tiyimele Consultants acknowledges the immediate need for Evaluation in Africa to represent the communities being evaluated.

This study was intended to assess project baseline indicators and any relevant information to inform the project planning processes and performance measurement. The baseline aims to get preliminary information related to independent commercial and community radio operations in South Sudan, specifically looking at Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI).

The evaluation was designed to answer questions about what is happening in the programme’s life, how it is happening, and why. TOC, M&E framework, and data collection tools were developed. Recommendation of this study culminated into the introduction a province wide albinism programme catering for the individuals living with albinism.

There are two main outcomes from the completion of the OTS study. Primarily, it assessed or gauged the extent to which there is progress towards achieving clean governance in the GPG. Linked to this, it took stock of the implementation factors that work and do not with the delivery of the OTS. Among others, the project was also preoccupied with understanding implementation factors such as the causes of regressions, incidents of fraud and corruption, non-transparency, and delays in payments. A TOC, M&E framework and data collection tools were developed and workshopped with the client and is currently applied by the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG).