CFYE Evaluation
Challenge Fund for Youth Employment | Global | 2022-2025
Tags: #GESI #Evaluation #YouthEmployment #SystemsChange #Africa #PortfolioEvaluation
About the Client
The Challenge Fund for Youth Employment (CFYE), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by a consortium led by Palladium, supports initiatives that create and improve decent work opportunities for youth, with a strong emphasis on women’s economic participation. Operating across the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel/West Africa, CFYE partners with local actors to address barriers to youth employment and underemployment.
My Role & Contribution
I was engaged as a Researcher to support CFYE’s multi-country evaluation processes, ensuring rigorous analysis and actionable insights.
Produced inception and mid-line evaluation reports through portfolio-wide data extraction and analysis.
Conducted qualitative coding of key informant interviews and case reports using MaxQDA to establish baselines and track systemic change mechanisms.
Identified programme gaps and provided evidence to strengthen intervention design.
Impact
Delivered evaluation products that directly informed strategic improvements across multiple regions.
Enhanced programme teams’ ability to monitor progress against youth employment and gender inclusion objectives.
Strengthened CFYE’s communication of systemic impact to stakeholders and funders.
Tools & Methods
Mixed-methods evaluation design
MaxQDA qualitative coding
Portfolio analysis and contribution mapping
Systems change framework application
Key Learning
Multi-country portfolio evaluations benefit from early standardisation of data collection templates to enable cross-comparison and systems-level insight generation.
Outputs
Throughout the multi-year evaluation a inception, mid-term and end-term report were created and shared with client (these have not been published publically. You can read more about the evaluation at partnering organisations site.
