Finn Church Aid (FCA) is Finland’s biggest development cooperation organization and the second biggest organization in Finland working in humanitarian aid. FCA is a member of the ACT Alliance (ACT), an alliance of faith-based development and humanitarian aid organizations forming one of the world’s largest aid organizations. FCA established presence in Kenya in 2010, working in three thematic areas: Right to Quality Education, Right to Livelihoods, and Right to Peace.
FCA Kenya is currently implementing a project funded by the Women’s Bank Finland named Women in Creative Enterprise (WICE). The project aims at empowering vulnerable groups such as women and youth in creative industries across Nairobi and Turkana counties through its Right to Livelihoods (R2L) program The Project focuses on strengthening creative enterprises through business, entrepreneurship, and digital skills training, incubation and mentorship programs
access to markets and financing opportunities, creative hubs providing infrastructure and digital tools and ecosystem linkages with industry players, government, and financial institutions.
Since inception, the project has reached over 800 creative entrepreneurs, with a strong emphasis on women’s economic empowerment, inclusion, and sustainable livelihoods.
The project adopts a “Linking Learning to Earning” model, ensuring that skills acquisition directly translates into income generation, enterprise growth, and participation in the creative economy.
The project, through working closely with the private sector actors, has improved training quality by aligning skills development with market demands and continuously adapting to evolving needs. It has also established comprehensive support systems aimed at ensuring long-term success and inclusivity within creative entrepreneurship. Success is measured not just by economic benefits from revue increase or skill development but also by its positive impact on participants’ social, mental, and community wellbeing.
The project operates under a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework that includes an Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT) aligned to the project logframe. Routine monitoring data has been collected throughout the project lifecycle in line with these indicators. A Data Quality Assessment (DQA) was conducted on routine monitoring data to establish confidence in data quality; the DQA findings will be made available to the evaluator. The baseline survey conducted in 2024 in Nairobi and Turkana provides the primary reference point for measuring change at the end-line. The evaluator is expected to review the MEAL framework, IPTT, DQA report, and baseline survey as part of the desk review phase, and to design the end-term evaluation methodology in a manner that is consistent with the baseline approach for valid comparison. The evaluation findings should feed back into FCA’s institutional learning agenda and be documented in a manner that supports future programming decisions.
Rational, purpose, and priority objectives of the evaluation
The overall purpose of the end-term evaluation is to assess the continued relevance of the action and the progress made toward achieving its planned outcomes, including an assessment of the quality and completeness of data collected throughout the project lifecycle and its fidelity to the WICE logframe indicators. It will also determine in an objective manner the progress of project outcome indicators to inform the program implementation team on the status of planned milestones based on observed actuals. FCA will use the results for learning to inform future programming and accountability to the donor, with findings formally fed back into FCA’s institutional learning agenda and documented in a manner that supports future Right to Livelihoods programming decisions, particularly for creative economy and digital livelihoods interventions targeting women and youth.
The scope of the evaluation entails conducting a detailed analysis of the project within its implementation context and establishing the extent to which the project has contributed to the FCA Rights to Livelihoods mandate. The evaluation will mainly focus on the project activities in Nairobi and Turkana, targeting project beneficiaries, implementing partners, staff, and other stakeholders.
2. Objectives:
The consultancy aims to;
- To evaluate the relevance of the project activities to the context and stakeholders.
- To measure the efficiency of the project in relation to the resources used.
- To assess the relevance of the project design in addressing the needs of women and youth creative entrepreneurs in Nairobi and Kakuma/Kalobeyei, Turkana.
- To assess the quality, completeness, and consistency of monitoring data collected during project implementation against the WICE MEAL framework and Indicator Performance Tracking Table (IPTT).
- To document challenges, programmatic lessons learned, and key recommendations, linking findings explicitly to FCA’s organizational learning system for integration into future creative economy and livelihoods programming.
- To analyze the change brought about by project implementation through comparison with the 2024 baseline survey conducted in Nairobi and Turkana.
3. Scope of evaluation
The evaluation will target a minimum sample of 320 beneficiaries across both counties, approximately 160 in Nairobi and 160 in Kakuma/Kalobeyei, Turkana, drawn from the total project population of 800 participants. All quantitative data must be disaggregated by sex, age group (18–25 and 26–40), location (Nairobi/Turkana), and vulnerability category (refugees, persons with disabilities, host community members). The sampling approach must align with the 2024 baseline sampling frame to ensure valid end-line comparability. The evaluator must justify the final sample size and sampling methodology in the inception report, including confidence levels and margin of error.
The participation of all the stakeholders of the project is very essential. This includes project beneficiaries, partners, consultants, and project staff. The duration of the assignment will be 24 days and will begin on 3rd August 2026. However, preliminary works may begin earlier, such as the development of the tools and review of the final study design. The final report incorporating feedback from FCA will be submitted no later than 28th August 2026.
4. Required Skills and qualifications
- Post-graduate degree in Data Science, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, or related
- Minimum 5-10 years of relevant professional experience in livelihoods programming and research.
- Demonstrated experience in leading end-line evaluations, including application of OECD DAC evaluation criteria.
- Proven experience in undertaking evaluations/research or leading evaluation/research teams, with outstanding skills in qualitative and quantitative research and data analysis using relevant software such as STATA or SPSS
- Proven experience using digital data collection tools (e.g. tablets, mobile-based platforms).
- Demonstrated expertise in evaluating programmes within the creative economy and entrepreneurship ecosystem, particularly early-stage and micro-enterprises, with an understanding of business incubation, market access, and income generation pathways.
- Strong understanding of women-led enterprise dynamics, including barriers to capital, market access, and business growth within informal and semi-formal sectors.
- Demonstrated understanding of gender-responsive and inclusive evaluation approaches, particularly in working with women, youth, and vulnerable populations.
- Solid understanding of Kenya’s informal settlements context, labour market dynamics, and digital & creative economy policies.
- Experience conducting research or evaluations in informal settlements and/or with low-literacy populations, with the ability to adapt tools and methodologies accordingly.
- Experience working in or evaluating programmes in fragile and/or refugee contexts is an added advantage.
How to apply
To access the TOR, kindly log into the FCA cloudia supplier portal and apply using the link below.
https://tarjouspalvelu.fi/kirkonulkomaanapu/?id=483545
by 2259 hrs Kenyan time on 31st July 2026. Late applications will be rejected.
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submit the applications via email. They must be submitted using the link above after registering in the
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Please note that the prices shall be quoted in KES only inclusive of VAT.
All applications, in English only, MUST be submitted online through the link above.
Bid submissions via email will NOT be accepted.
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