Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator for DAPP Project

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in five of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, and Upper Egypt, Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Greater Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Aswan and Assuit. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egypt’s Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.

Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that “Children, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of change”.

About the Role

The post holder reports to the DAPP Country Expert with a dotted-line reporting to the M&E Manager. S/he provides technical oversight for M&E systems, tools, and field-level data processes. The role requires close coordination with the DAPP Country Expert, Project Specialist, Project Coordinators across PUs, PU Managers, and frontline staff to ensure accurate data collection, progress monitoring, evidence generation, and documentation of learnings. The post holder ensures that partner organizations comply with M&E standards and that all reporting meets donor and Plan International requirements.

Project’s Brief:

Project Name: Youth Inclusion and Employment Project

Outcome: Young women and men have enhanced employability and engage in entrepreneurship.

The project focuses on enabling young people to be inspired and included in economic life. Both burgeoning entrepreneurs and youth in search of employment are targeted. Upcoming entrepreneurs will be supported through the building of life skills and inclusion into relevant business ecosystems in order to establish themselves and make a living by bringing their ideas to life. Youth in search of employment will build technical skills to ensure that they have the qualifications needed in the labour market. All of this will aim at ensuring that their employability is enhanced at the same time as their own capacity to secure a job is enhanced.

Target:

a) 6600 young people are employed or have established themselves as entrepreneurs (minimum 50% young women)

b) 33000 young people (minimum 50% young women) (after controlling for double counting)

The main outputs:

Proposed activities

Expected result areas

Output 2: Technical skills development for capacity building and increased employability

- National skills championships with a particular focus on gender equality in the trades included;

- Informal economy skills development initiatives;

- Online training opportunities;

- Outreach to youth via information and communication campaigns;

- Partnerships with training institutions, business incubators, and other relevant stakeholders;

- Promote green technical knowledge and skills that can unleash the economic potential in the green transition.

- Life and technical skills for young women and men to actively engage in society;

- Enterprises have access to female and male employees with relevant technical expertise within the focus sectors;

- Increased awareness of benefits of improved skills;

- Increase of young women and men enrolled in various training courses (short and longer);

- Young people have improved their job-related skills.

Proposed activities

Expected result areas

Output 3: Access to business development services and mentoring for entrepreneurs

- Entrepreneurship training, incubators, mentorships (by youth organizations, enterprises, etc.);

- Support to set up a business (business plans etc.) including specific support focusing on the challenges faced by women;

- Support to market access;

- Facilitation of networking opportunities, including specific women’s networks;

- Youth group organized entrepreneurship activities;

- Business plan competitions;

- Establishment of challenge funds for attracting projects with innovative ideas for job creation;

- Communication through multiple channels incl. media coverage to inspire burgeoning entrepreneurs;

- Business development services.

- Organizational capacity of private sector, entrepreneurs and communities for support to young women and men enhanced through partnerships;

- Increased opportunities and capacity for young female and male entrepreneurs to grow existing businesses and/or start new businesses;

- Entrepreneurs inspired

Proposed activities

Expected result areas

Output 4: Better access to finance for entrepreneurs

- Linking entrepreneurs and start-ups with commercial banks and micro-finance institutions;

- Facilitating access to seed capital or grant opportunities for start-ups in partner countries;

- Targeted efforts to address the particular constraints faced by young female entrepreneurs in accessing finance;

- Establishment of entrepreneurship awards with grant prices.

- Improved access to finance for young female and male entrepreneurs and start-ups;

- Strengthened eco-system for start-up financing.