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Background: To support the highly vulnerable Somali population, the Somalia Joint Response (SOMJR) — a three-year, integrated, multi-sectoral humanitarian programme — was implemented by a consortium of four Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) members (World Vision, SOS Children's Villages, Medair and OXFAM) and nine local partner organisations. With funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the project aimed to reduce mortality and morbidity among crisis-affected populations through timely, integrated life-saving assistance across Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Protection, Multi-Purpose Cash, and a crisis modifier component for rapid response to emerging shocks. SOMJR also sought to strengthen community resilience and ensure equitable access to essential services, directly benefiting 692,617 individuals across 20 districts in 12 regions of Somalia and Somaliland. PRC was hired by DRA, led by OXFAM Novib, to undertake the final evaluation of the SOMJR project.

Purpose: To uphold accountability to MOFA, DRA, and all relevant stakeholders — including the communities served — and to surface learning from the programme.

Specific objectives:

• Results achieved: assess the results, effectiveness, and quality of the response in achieving its intended goals.
• Cross-cutting and intervention approaches: critically evaluate the extent to which SOMJR integrated accountability, localisation, collaboration, and innovation into the response design and implementation.
• Learning and improvement: identify lessons learned and best practices to inform future humanitarian interventions.

Background: UNESCO has committed, under its 41 C/5 programme, to mobilise the social and human sciences sector in support of gender equality and to address gender-based prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and violence. Since the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the country has made great strides on gender equality, yet major gaps remain around access to opportunities and gender-based violence, including its reporting and monitoring — with little existing research on the contribution of positive redefinitions of gender norms and roles. PRC's baseline study contributes to KNATCOM's future gender equality and mainstreaming interventions and policies, ultimately strengthening the resilience of women and men by supporting non-violent, equitable, and inclusive notions of masculinity.

Purpose: To assess the redefinition of gender norms in Kenya — men as caregivers and as active preventers of gender-based violence — in Nairobi and Mombasa Counties.

Specific objectives:

• Map out the key issues in gender redefinitions in Kenya.
• Undertake a keen analysis of men as caregivers and active preventers of gender-based violence.
• Evaluate gender-based violence in Kenya and its key triggers, including contextualisation of its processes and management.

Background: SOS Children's Villages International's Strategy 2030 and MA Somaliland's National Strategic Plan (2023–2027) are premised on the belief that a caring and protective family is central to a child's wellbeing and development — that every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect, and security. Since 1999, SOS CV in Somaliland has been committed to the welfare of children who have lost, or are at risk of losing, parental care by providing long-term family-like alternative care, strengthening vulnerable families and communities to prevent abandonment and separation (Family Strengthening Programme), and upholding child protection policy.

Purpose: Commissioned by SOS Children's Villages and implemented by PRC, the multi-cluster needs assessment provided a comprehensive, objective, region-specific analysis of SOS target groups' priority needs across all regions of Somaliland. The evidence generated is being used to enhance SOS's learning, adaptability, planning, relevance, sustainability, and impact across its multi-sectoral humanitarian and development programmes.

Background: Funded by Bread for the World, the Trauma Healing for Enhanced Peacebuilding in South Sudan pilot project was implemented by AFSC and eight CSOs/FBOs over two years (October 2019 – September 2021). The project aimed to contribute to quality trauma healing processes for peaceful co-existence by ensuring peacebuilders were sufficiently supported to care for themselves and others, through two components: Capacity Building for Peacebuilders and Institutional Capacity Building for the eight partner CSOs/FBOs.

Purpose: To measure achievement of the project's objective and assess its relevance, performance, effectiveness, impact, efficiency, and sustainability, with findings informing the design of a scaled-up programme for South Sudan.

Background: SOS Children's Villages Denmark, SOS Somaliland, and Taakulo jointly implemented "Unveiling the Potential of Climate Smart Agriculture in Restoring Food Security and Livelihoods in Displacement-Affected Communities" (the Novo Nordisk CSA Project) in Somaliland over two years (January 2024 – January 2026). The project addressed extreme food scarcity in displacement-affected communities by introducing climate-smart agricultural techniques (CSA) through a gender-responsive approach. SOS DK and SOS Somaliland hired PRC to undertake the final evaluation.

Purpose: To assess the impact of the CSA project in strengthening climate-resilient food security among beneficiaries — children, young people, families and communities — in Burao District, generating evidence for stakeholders to use in learning, improvement, and decision-making for future CSA programming.

Specific objectives:

• Assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the implemented interventions in Burao.
• Determine how efficiently the project delivered services to targeted beneficiaries, utilised resources cost-effectively, and achieved outputs within the planned timeframe.
• Assess consistency of project interventions with the overall objectives of building climate resilience and improving food security.
• Determine how well interventions prepared beneficiaries and their families to withstand shocks such as droughts and disasters.
• Assess how well the project responded to the needs and priorities of beneficiaries and addressed the real needs of the target group.
• Assess how coherently gender, inclusion, and environmental sustainability were integrated into CSA activities.
• Highlight lessons learnt, best practices, and recommendations to feed into future SOS CV programming in similar sectoral areas.

Background: PRC provided entrepreneurship training to women and farmer groups in Kilifi County, equipping them with practical business management skills reflective of their current and aspirational business levels. Islamic Relief-Kenya's intended outcome was for beneficiaries living in ASAL areas to start and improve small businesses as a "safety net," increasing resilience to drought and other climate shocks and improving their quality of life. The training was anchored on PRC's Institutional Development Pillars — Research, 360° Business Consulting™, and Technology — to accelerate application of learnt skills and create a multiplier effect within vulnerable communities.

Thematic areas:

• Entrepreneurial and business management training.
• Behavioural skills and emotional intelligence training.

Background: Since 2017, Oxfam has employed an integrated approach to humanitarian response and resilience in Somalia focused on Emergency Food Security and Vulnerable Livelihoods (EFSVL), WASH, and Protection — using cash-based interventions, safe programming, and resilience-building (including safety nets and agricultural support) to address recurring needs. Its thematic objectives span: EFSVL support for gender-responsive food and nutrition security and sustainable food options; WASH support building resilience of drought- and cyclone-affected communities in Somaliland and Puntland through timely water, sanitation, and hygiene support; and Protection aimed at reducing protection risks and building capacity through awareness, information dissemination, and community lighting initiatives — with safe programming and gender mainstreaming integrated across all three sectors rather than run as a stand-alone pillar.

Purpose: To document and evidence the impact — direct or indirect, intended or unintended, positive or negative — of Oxfam's Humanitarian and Resilience Programme at macro (federal), meso (sector), and micro (household) levels; to identify the programme's wider social, cultural, economic, technical, and environmental impacts on people and institutions through a Comprehensive Impact Assessment Framework; to capture learning for future programming; and to guide the design of the next humanitarian programme cycle (2022–2026) and organisational learning at global and country levels.

Specific objectives:

• Measure and independently assess the extent to which planned objectives responded to the needs and concerns of affected people, and the changes attributable to the Integrated Humanitarian Programme approach.
• Assess how far the humanitarian strategy, response tools, and coordination mechanisms — including the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) and application of Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) — supported the response, and recommend improvement-oriented actions.

Background: The Juba Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) project, Phase II (2011–2013), was implemented by OVCI Usratuna with funding from CBM Australia, aiming to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities and those at risk of disability through a comprehensive CBR strategy in South Sudan. Key result areas included organisational capacity for comprehensive CBR service delivery, access to inclusive education for children with disabilities, socio-economic empowerment for people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities, and mainstreaming disability into government and local development programmes.

Purpose: To assess progress, achievements, and challenges encountered over the three-year phase, identify strategies and approaches worth consolidating or replicating, and inform planning and direction for OVCI, the CBM Country Office, Regional Office, and CBM Australia for the next phase.

Background: SOS Children's Villages in Djibouti, part of SOS Children's Villages International, has operated in the country since 2014 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-partisan NGO. Beyond long-term family-like alternative care and family strengthening services, SOS Djibouti also provides humanitarian action for disaster-affected communities and early childhood education / e-learning centre services for youth empowerment. PRC was hired to conduct the multi-cluster needs assessment (MCNA) on behalf of SOS CV Djibouti.

Purpose: To provide an objective and comprehensive analysis of vulnerable children, young people, and communities across Djibouti City (including Balbala), Arta, Ali Sabieh, Dikhil, Tadjourah, and Obock regions — assessing the relevance, outcome, and impact of SOS Djibouti's current services, and drawing lessons and recommendations to enhance future programme planning for care and development of children, young people, women, families, and vulnerable communities.

Specific objectives:

• Assess the current economic, social, cultural, and political situation of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), young people who have lost or risk losing parental care, women, and vulnerable communities, and identify their priority needs.
• Assess the relevance, outcome, and impact of family-like care, family strengthening, foster family care, and early childhood education services delivered by SOS Djibouti.
• Map actors involved in OVC, at-risk youth, and women's programming — including childcare centres, likeminded organisations, community structures, and social protection providers.
• Identify existing policies and laws — including alternative care and childcare policy — affecting OVCs, at-risk youth, women, and vulnerable communities, and the gaps therein.
• Assess external shocks, hazards, and crises faced by vulnerable communities, their impact on livelihoods, and coping mechanisms.

Background: Following Kenya's 2007 disputed presidential election, a surge of violence left 1,500 dead and 600,000 displaced — 70% of participants in the post-election violence were youth, alienated, disengaged, and impoverished, with few opportunities for employment or avenues to voice grievances. To address this, USAID initiated the Yes Youth Can! (YYC!) programme, awarding regional grants across six regions in 2010 to reach more than 700,000 disenfranchised youth (18–35) excluded from the formal financial system and decision-making structures. Mercy Corps implemented the programme in the Rift Valley and Central regions, with objectives to: establish a youth-driven fund for local development solutions; improve youth confidence and integration through entrepreneurship and positive engagement; promote sustainable youth-owned, youth-led platforms for leadership; and increase youth influence on policy for youth development and civic engagement.

Purpose: PRC's end-line evaluation of Mercy Corps' YYC! programme in the Rift Valley and Central regions assessed the programme's processes and outcomes and measured performance against established indicators.

Background: SOS Children's Villages in Somaliland implemented the "Leave No Youth Behind" project, aiming to ensure young people in Somaliland — with a special focus on youth leaving care (YLC) — become resilient, self-reliant, and independent contributing members of society, able to withstand and recover quickly from life's adversities.

Purpose: This baseline research by PRC assessed the situation of young people leaving care in Maroodi-Jeeh, Togdheer, and Awdal regions of Somaliland — mapping the opportunities, challenges, and threats they face — and provided recommendations to address barriers, leverage opportunities, and mitigate threats during and after the transition out of residential or alternative care, informing SOS and its partners under the "Leave No Youth Behind" project.

Background: FAWEZA's 2011–2015 strategic plan sought to close the gender gap in primary and high school education across Zambia's 10 provinces — Lusaka, Central, Southern, Western, Eastern, Luapula, Northern, Muchinga, Copperbelt, and North-Western — supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, USAID, UNICEF, World Vision International, the FAWE Regional Secretariat, DANIDA, Equity Now, HAZ, Book Aid International, and Irish Aid.

Purpose: The mid-term evaluation assessed progress since the plan's launch in 2011, examined the factors proving critical to change, surfaced challenges encountered, drew lessons from experience, and recommended programme changes for increased effectiveness and efficiency.

Specific objectives:

• Identify the most significant change in the education policy environment, school culture, and social practices contributed by FAWEZA's advocacy strategies and demonstrative interventions.
• Assess the efficiency and effectiveness of FAWEZA's structures, staffing, and systems in managing implementation of the strategic plan.
• Identify lessons for greater programme efficiency, effectiveness, and impact at national, provincial, and district levels.
• Recommend specific alternatives to re-designed implementation approaches or targets, grounded in evidence-based analysis, including budget gaps.
• Establish the adequacy of funding to the strategic plan and how it affected implementation.
• Assess the continued relevance of key assumptions underpinning successful implementation of the strategic plan.

Background: Through the Somalia Investment Climate Reform Project (Somalia ICRP-II), IFC sought to catalyse investment and enhance private-sector-led economic growth and competitiveness in Somalia through targeted trade facilitation reforms, primarily in Mogadishu — expanding and strengthening the Somali private sector through legal and regulatory improvements, addressing border management and clearance bottlenecks, and improving data collection on trade procedures and policies.

Purpose: PRC's baseline study, financed under IFC's Somalia-ICRP-II Project (ID# 603600), established baseline data for project indicators, enabling monitoring and evaluation of inputs, outputs, and outcomes, and supporting an enabling business environment intended to catalyse private investment and job creation through a tailored set of policy and programmatic interventions addressing gaps in import/export trade procedures.

Background: A comprehensive understanding of the socio-economic context of young migrants in Africa is essential to designing and successfully implementing future resilience-building programmes targeting young migrants in Kenya, Somalia, and similar contexts — contributing to local, regional, and international policy decisions and strengthening the effectiveness of future interventions.

Purpose: KNATCOM, in collaboration with AFSC, commissioned PRC to conduct a baseline study determining the socio-economic resilience of youth refugees in Kenya and Somalia, highlighting the challenges young refugees face in accessing quality socio-economic services, the opportunities available for their resilience, and an analysis of existing policies and how they contribute to or alleviate these challenges.

Background: Somalia enjoys natural advantages for private-sector investment and growth — entrepreneurial ability, proximity to large and growing markets, and the second-longest coastline in Africa — reflected in its steady growth in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Its potential has, however, been constrained by regional and security issues, weak regulatory frameworks, and limited government promotion of investment. Somalia has begun reversing this cycle through laws such as the Companies Act and Communications Act and by establishing key regulatory and promotional authorities. This study presents the status of the investment climate for Somalia's ICT and Energy sectors as of 2020, using desk research and key informant interviews, together with recommendations for change.

Purpose: To understand the investment climate in Somalia's ICT and energy sectors and determine investment prospects, enabling the Federal Government of Somalia to further institutionalise reforms that alleviate trade and investment barriers and improve the country's prospects as an FDI destination.

Background: In 2021, Oxfam developed a 10-year country strategy for Somalia focused on a just economy and economic development, inclusive governance and gender justice, and conflict-sensitive humanitarian response and resilience to climate and fragility. Oxfam works directly with 10 local humanitarian partners across Somaliland, Puntland, Jubbaland, South-West, Benadir, Hirshabelle, and Galmudug. Oxfam commissioned PRC to undertake an Integrated Rapid Needs Assessment (IRNA) spanning primary data collection in 25 districts across all seven Federal Member States, identifying the needs, gaps, vulnerabilities, and challenges faced by disaster- and conflict-affected women, girls, men, boys, youth, IDPs, minorities, marginalised groups, and host communities — feeding into programme development, advocacy, and delivery of assistance to the most affected and vulnerable people.

Purpose: To provide a detailed mapping of humanitarian needs and crisis-affected populations across South-Central Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland in terms of WASH, Food Security & Livelihoods, and Protection, and to generate a comparative analysis informing the selection of the most critical villages and sites for assistance.

Specific objectives:

• Assess the current status of households regarding water, sanitation and hygiene, protection, food security, and access to livelihoods and markets.
• Identify differences in need across assessed populations and geographical areas to prioritise the neediest.
• Provide evidence-based information on the conditions of crisis-affected people to inform a more integrated and relevant humanitarian response.

Background: Commissioned by the World Bank Group's Somalia Investment Climate Reform Project (Somalia-ICRP-II, ID# 603600) and implemented by IFC, this baseline study sought to catalyse and enhance private-sector-led economic growth and competitiveness in Somalia through targeted investment climate reforms.

Purpose: The study determined the primary constraints in Somalia's business regulatory environment; identified and listed all business registration procedures; mapped the current regulatory framework at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI); validated the procedures, time, and cost against the Doing Business "Starting a Business" indicator; conducted a Business Process Review of current registration procedures; and gathered administrative licensing data from MoCI. The insights informed MoCI, the Ministry of Finance, and World Bank Group policy and programmatic interventions to streamline processes and enhance transparency and accountability through technology and reform.

Background: AFSC's Somali Youth Development and Livelihood Programme aimed to ensure youth took leading roles as citizens and agents for social change, active in non-violent, innovative community-based initiatives, and contributing to peaceful and safe communities across Somalia and the Horn of Africa. By 2017, the goal was for young Somalis in target areas to earn livelihoods and engage effectively in action-oriented leadership and peaceful reconciliation, tracked against indicators including increased incomes for 80% of the 5,000-person target group, annual identification and advocacy of at least two community issues, and 80% of the target group engaged in peaceful reconciliation and living peacefully within their communities.

Purpose: This end-term evaluation assessed the programme's performance against effectiveness, impact, efficiency, relevance, timeliness, and sustainability, evaluated achievement of objectives and implementation of activities, examined potential for scalability, highlighted success stories, and assessed partner capability.

Background: The ICSE project aimed to contribute to the fulfilment of survival, development, participation, and protection rights of conflict-affected children in Puntland, taking an integrated approach to improving the education environment, psychosocial support, infrastructure, and capacity development for school management committees (CECs), teachers, and education officials.

Purpose: To assess progress of the ICSE project, identify lessons learned and best practices, and make recommendations for improvement and scale-up — evaluating performance against relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and adherence to project timelines.

Background: The Federal Government of Somalia, through the Ministry of Finance and with World Bank Group support under the Somali Core Economic Institutions and Opportunities (SCORE) Programme, was implementing activities to strengthen private and financial sector development and formal financial services. For the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), SCORE aimed to help formalise entrepreneurs, simplify licensing procedures, and establish a One Stop Shop (OSS) system for trade licensing and business registration, alongside a business information portal. The SCORE project hired PRC to conduct an institutional and ICT capacity assessment at the OSS, working closely with the Project Implementation Unit under the Ministry of Finance and World Bank Group Investment Climate and ICT teams in Nairobi and Washington.

Purpose: To identify institutional and ICT capacity gaps and provide recommendations for technology and staffing improvements required to operationalise and sustain a fully functional web-based OSS, enabling MoCI and its development partners to formulate workable interventions.

Specific objectives:

• Conduct an institutional capacity assessment of the existing business registry at MoCI.
• Conduct an ICT capacity assessment of the existing business registry.
• Identify gaps in technology and business registry capacity.
• Recommend an appropriate technology model and training to upgrade Ministry staff skills, guaranteeing effective implementation and post-implementation sustainability of the OSS.