Overview

The India version of GenU has been named YuWaah! It signifies catalytic partnerships to unleash the potential of adolescents and young people. YuWaah! has been designed to allow co-creation of solutions that are relevant and scalable to ensure that young people in India have opportunity and choices for learning; have avenues and spaces for functional and vocational training and can choose between employment and entrepreneurship which are accessible locally.

There is a need to begin undertaking evaluation-related activities to ensure that the YuWaah! initiative is well-designed and the right mechanisms are set up to allow for a robust evaluation of outcomes and results in the future. Since activities are still in a nascent stage, now is an opportune moment to undertake a baseline assessment with partners and young people to understand the starting point of key activities and outcomes against which later progress will be measured. This will enable the answering of key evaluation questions in the future and help YuWaah! learn if it is on the best track possible to achieve its long-term goals. However, before establishing a baseline, there is also a need to examine the clarity of YuWaah!’s design and how it has been operationally translated into practice, to provide assurance to stakeholders that the initiative is robust, that objectives are adequately defined and that systems are in place to measure and verify results. Indeed, given the scale of YuWaah!, its complexity and also the amount of investment it requires, this is paramount to do while the initiative is still being set up. Therefore, there is a need for an evaluability assessment, which will assess ‘design’ elements of the initiative, both in terms of its approach, structure and activities, as well as the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms/plans in place. To this end, UNICEF seeks to contract an evaluation agency to undertake an (1) evaluability assessment and (2) baseline evaluation of YuWaah.

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