Process Review 2 - Mentoring FINAL March 2024 - clear (AutoRecovered

With regard to mentoring, these differed in terms of the size of the Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) that the mentors established and supported, and the point at which these VSLAs were established; and the duration of contact between mentors and participants. [...] The recruitment, training and onboarding programme for mentors, the process followed to facilitate the formation of business groups and VSLAs, the provision of ongoing advice and support through monthly visits, and the recording and reporting of implementation activity and participant status were all in line with the design as laid out in the Operational Manual. [...] The goal of the capacity-building component is to equip the GoK (with backend support from the consortium) with the necessary skills and knowledge to independently carry out the EIP for future phases within the same counties, with the view for GoK to take the lead in scaling up the EIP to additional counties across Kenya. [...] Further, the impact evaluation aims to assess to what extent the design of the EIP is relevant given the context and the needs of its target population and to what extent the programme’s impact is sustained over time. [...] The first explicit assumption relates to the relevance of the economic inclusion approach, and the assumed importance of the EIP in providing a complementary package of mentoring (skills and knowledge) and finance (consumption support and asset transfers).