Dodo Aleke, Kiara Japhet & Baaru Mary, 2014, Enterprise Development for Rural Families Programme in Kenya, Final Report, Final evaluation

2.3 DIRECT ACTIONS IN COMMUNITIES

2.3.6. Vocational education/skills training

Recommendation: 25) Ensure that translation of all the material that is to be used during TVET Programmes and other capacity strengthening materials is ready prior to training. Misunderstandings and message distortion may arise if the facilitator is relied on to translate content (see also 4.4.5 on ensuring that training materials are directly accessible to participants and content does not need too much adaptation during training).

Reference: Dodo Aleke, Kiara Japhet & Baaru Mary, 2014, Enterprise Development for Rural Families Programme in Kenya, Final Report, Final evaluation, SIDA, Stockholm, Project: SIDA Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s Enterprise Development for Rural Families (EDRF), Kenya.

Evidence sample: the evaluation found that TVET in Kenyan villages was based on very useful material that, however, was written in English and most of the group members could not read it. The trainers then had to interpret it into Swahili and then local dialect. This was a long process of passing a message with high likelihoods that the message received by the final recipient was not the same as the original. Considering that the majority of trainers do not speak the language of the local community, these materials had to be translated into Kiswahili to reduce the risks of message distortion.

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2.4 APPROACHES TO ENHANCE LIVELIHOODS, EQUITY AND INCLUSION

2.4.7. Strengthening IE with attention to people affected by HIV

Recommendation: 5) Ensure that people living with or affected by HIV are also included in training groups wherever relevant and support them with the same types of assistance.

Reference: Dodo Aleke, Kiara Japhet & Baaru Mary, 2014, Enterprise Development for Rural Families Programme in Kenya, Final Report, Final evaluation, SIDA, Stockholm, Project: SIDA Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s Enterprise Development for Rural Families (EDRF), Kenya.

Evidence sample: the evaluation positively assesses the project’s engagement of those affected and by HIV\AIDS also links them with other service providers for assistance. The module for training that  used, especially with regard to group dynamics is used as a mitigation measure to ensure group members affected by the HIV are assisted to fully participate in group activities including establishing and expanding businesses