Growth, Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods (GEEL) End-Line Process Evaluation

Date

April 2022

Location

Africa - Mogadishu, Jowhar, Baidoa, and Afgoye

Contract

In 2022, Integra and its partner Consilient were contracted under the USAID Evaluations, Assessments, and Analysis (EAA) Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to conduct the Growth, Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods (GEEL) End Line Process Evaluation, implemented by International Resources Group (IRG), a subsidiary of RTI International. USAID/Somalia’s Economic Growth office implemented the five-year, $74,000,000 GEEL Activity (September 2015 – September 2021) to promote inclusive economic growth in Somalia by promoting systemic and sectoral changes in agriculture, fisheries, and livestock by stimulating production, processing, employment, and enterprise development along each of the value chains. The evaluation assessed internal factors (e.g., management capacity, resources, MEL systems, local staffing) and external factors (e.g., local partnerships, host government, regulator environment) that affected GEEL’s ability to adapt to changing political and economic conditions and other shocks like COVID-19. The evaluation findings provided information and analyses to improve future economic growth, youth, and gender programming and informed USAID/Somalia’s new flagship economic growth activity.

Photo Credit: RTI International. “USAID/Somalia Growth, Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Program.” (2016)

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