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EVALUATION REPORT FOREND TERM REVIEW OF THE UCHAGUZI
BORA INITIATIVE
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Introduction
End term review
• Aim Give feedback on effectiveness of project
implementation. Extent to which the initiative has achieved its
objectives.
• Objective Determine impact of the UBI in contributing to a
participatory, peaceful, free and fair general election in March 2013.
• Scope All 47 counties
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Background
• Uraia Trust– Successor to NCEP– Aim provide technical and financial support to
CSOs
• Uchaguzi Bora Initiative– 18 month program to build a critical mass of
citizens working for participatory, peaceful, free and fair general election
– Use promise, opportunities, values, and ethos envisaged by Kenya’s Constitution as basis and framework for ensuring the credibility of 2013 elections
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Objective of UBI
a)Assess the extent to which the Initiative achieved its objectives in relation to:
i. Providing effective quality civic and voter education to Kenyan citizens.
ii. Facilitating citizen engagement in the electoral, political and governance process.
iii.Facilitating institutional and democratic transformation internally, and with other actors.
iv.Responding to emerging trends in the operating environment.
b)To assess the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of strategies and approaches used in:i. Providing effective quality civic and voter education,
and
ii. Facilitating civic engagements.
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Objective of UBI –Cont. c). Assess overall impact of the UBI on the target
groups, especially in relation to:-• Increased knowledge and understanding of the
constitution and electoral issues.• Fostering and expanding citizen participation in the
political and governance process.• Fostering peaceful coexistence of communities and
nationhood.• Vetting of leaders based on leadership and integrity
criteria.• Strengthening and supporting CSOs to respond to
emerging electoral related issues at county and national level.
• Entrenching constitutionalism in the electioneering process.
• Increasing transparency and accountability in the electoral process
• Enhancing credibility in the judicial system to achieve participatory, peaceful, free and fair elections.
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End term evaluation
• Methodology- qualitative and quantitative desk review of key documents; semi structured key informant interviews focus group discussions (FGDs) with
target groups; structured questionnaire conducted face-
to-faces• 95% confidence level • sample size of 5021 citizens • margin of error (confidence interval) of 1.4%.
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Evaluation Methodology
QUALITATIVEFocus group discussions (FGDs)
Adult Kenyans33 FGDs
In-depth interviews (IDIs)
IPsMinority groupsDonorsState actorsNon- state actors
34 IDIs
QUANTITATIVEFace to face interviewsProportionate to population sampling
Cluster sampling to insure inclusion of PWDs, minority groups and marginalized communitiesSample: 5021 with adult Kenyans
Three Tier ApproachLITERATURE
REVIEWSecondary data
Internal informationExternal sources
• sample size of 5021 citizens
• 95% confidence level
• margin of error (confidence interval) of 1.4%.
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Programmatic issues
UBi worked with Implementing Partners (IPs) to deliver civic and voter education at the counties level
The support UBI provided to IPs was training, education materials and funding
Regional coordinators were put in place to ensure smooth operation of the project
Funding was released late by some donors and this affected early disbursement to IPs
Donors
State Actors
Uraia through
UBI
Non-state Actors
ConsortiaImplementing
Partners
Citizens/Raia
Coordination of UBI
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Demographic distribution: 66% youth (18 to 35 years) 6% over 55 With ID 94% of total sample 96% of the 25-35 and 46-55 age groupsNo ID 43% urban and rural 39% applied and awaitingNo ID 22% had recently lost itNo ID 26% rural and 16% urban just attained age of 18
Sample Analyzed by Age Group Gender, PWDs and Marginalized Groups
Scope
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EXTENT TO WHICH THE UBI ACHIEVED ITS OBJECTIVES
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Providing Effective and Quality Civic and Voter Education to Kenyans
Civic education/information received in 2012 & 2013
19%
21%
24%
25%
30%
32%
39%
54%
56%
72%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Vetting of aspirants
Role of elective positions in the NewConstitution
Leadership and Integrity
Good governance
Devolution
Peaceful coexistence (cohesion andnationhood)
Constitution
Voter registration
Voting procedures (elective positions)
Voting procedures (how to mark ballotpapers) 14.4
million
11.2 Million
10.8 million
3.8 million
Awareness by areas
• Urban 73%
• Rural 71%
Highest Awareness
• Elgeyo Marakwet 92%
• Narok 89%
• Mandera 87%
• Kisumu 87%
• Kisii 87%
Lowest Awareness
• Makueni 38%
• Samburu 43%
• Kwale 44%
• Taita Taveta 48%
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Providing Effective and Quality Civic and Voter Education to Kenyans
Source of Information on Civic and Voter Education, n=3608
1%
1%
1%
2%
3%
4%
4%
16%
16%
22%
22%
57%
58%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Internet
During football match
Folk media
Handbook
Constitution booklet
County/public forum
Organization / NGOs / CSOs / FBOs
Posters
Newspapers / magazines
Individual / civic educator
IEBC voter education materials
Radio
Television
4,400,000 adult Kenyans
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Facilitating Citizen Engagement in the Electoral, Political and
Governance Process
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Vetting of Leaders for Leadership and Integrity
Factors guiding choice of leader: integrity, the political party and political manifesto. Factors not considered important in choice: past record, religion, education and whether the person is transparent in leadership style.Those that ought to be barred from contesting: convicted in a court of law and those not declaring their wealth
“Because we have seen some of the leaders being taken to court in terms of accountability of they misused CDF money” Tharaka Nithii youth
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Vetting of Leaders for Leadership and Integrity – practice
20% reported that they had participated in vetting of leaders by attending public debates, calling in during a talk show and/or carried out their own research on the candidate.
A knowledge gap exists on ‘ways in which to vet leaders’ and Uraia should address this gap as it will improve the civic engagement
Ways of participating and reasons for not participating in vetting of leaders
57%
19%22%
5%
33%
20%
44%
3%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
I attended apublic debate
I carried outmy research
on thecandidate
I called induring a talkshow where
the candidatewas hosted
Other I did not havethe time
It is notimportant to
me
I did notknow ways inwhich to vetthe leaders
Other
Yes No
Perc
ent
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Facilitating Institutional and Democratic Transformation
Internally and with Other Actors
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Strengthening and Supporting CSOs
Internally: Recruitment and training of project staff Five senior staff and two implementing
staff Implementing Partners• Pre-award workshops were held for 47 organizations • Trainer of trainers workshop• Production of IEC materials (posters and pamphlets)KIE Supported development of primary and secondary
school civic education curriculum. Trained 400 curriculum developers Provided technical support to review the civic
education materials developed. Ahadi Kenya • Vet aspirants within the Nairobi county with focus
on Women Leadership
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Strengthening and Supporting CSOs – Cont.
K-NICE• Participated In The Evaluation Of Proposals And Identification Of
Non-state Actors To Participate In K-nice's Second Round Of Implementation From The Second Call.
Legislative Agenda • Through its support and participation in the development of bills
for assent in the legislature. • Reviewing the right to petition parliament bill convened by the
cic. • Participated in the cic workshop to interrogate modalities of
citizen participation Cultural Workers and Artists • Development of media content and messages. • Training of cultural workers on the provisions of the constitution• Implementing partners Media• Dissemination activities with nation media group's both Q TV and
Q FM • Weekly radio and TV programme on kamusi ya changamka a• Fact sheets/infomercials
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Responding to Emerging Trends in the Operating Environment
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Responding to Emerging Trends• Civic education emphasized the need to address any grievances arising from the
electioneering process in the court of law as opposed to taking to the streets • Capability of civil society and IPs enhances to forecast, pre-empt, and/or
manage the kind of crisis.• UBI had not anticipated that the hate speech will shift from verbal and
telephone communication to the social media. • However, once this shift was identified, efforts were put to ensure the hate
speech through social media was minimized and did not go viral.
“We benefited from RRI at two levels one we had the incident in Mathare where we had some violence towards the end of last year and beginning of this year. So I remember the organization that was working in Mathare and works in informal settlements and another organization in Kenya slums also came to us and wanted to do some violence preventive and peace building work, in relation to elections so we referred to Uraia we got some funding and we were able to do some assessment of the situation; what had happened, who is there, who is doing what and then to design some community dialogue which we did before and after elections and I think we were quite satisfied with the efforts which led to very minimal violence in Mathare.”
KII consortia
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To assess the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency
of the strategies and approaches used
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Perceived Quality of Civic Education
Quality of information impacted by the source of information
3.9
3.9
3.5
3.5
3.4
3.6
3.9
3.6
3.9
3.5
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5
Voting procedures ( how to mark ballot papers)
Voting procedures (elective positions)
Vetting of aspirants
Elective positions
Devolution
Good governance
Voter registration
Leadership and integrity
Cohesion and nationhood
Constitution
Mean (Scale of 1-5)
0=Very Poor Quality 5=Very high quality
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77% optimistic that the IEBC is capable of managing free and fair elections• Why don’t you consider them peaceful?•Didn’t understand voting process, experienced violence, election related tension (40%, 33% and 20%)• Why don’t you consider them participatory?•some citizens did not vote, some names were missing in voter register, some views and opinions of Kenyans were not taken into consideration (53%, 23% and 11% ). • Why don’t you consider them free and fair?•election problems, voter tallying marred by a lot of rigging, results contested in courts eg supreme court, there were complaints from citizens and various aspirants (33 %, 22%, 15% and 13% respectively)• What challenges were faced?• Important: low literacy levels (53%), ethnic differences (42%), rigging (36%), voter buying (34%), corruption in government (33%), and interference with the electoral body (32%),• Not Important: religious differences (54%), election violence (42%), voter intimidation (33%) and lack of transparence in vote tallying (31%)“According to me 2013 elections were free and fair because no one was denied to vote despite the challenges that faced IEBC and that is why you find that the tallying process had no problem ” Mwingi men
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“There were no incidences of violence”- Garsen women “Tension is still there. People have just kept quiet. It will erupt one day” Eldoret women
What would cause a repeat of violence?Tribalism/ethnicity, discrimination (35%) hate speech/incitement
(23%) unfair elections/rigging /poor tallying (19%)
Peaceful electionsStatus of Forgiveness of 2007 PEV
4%
5%
6%
47%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Can never forgive them
Can only forgive undercertain conditions
Have not fully forgiven thembut we can work together
I have totally forgiven themand we can live together
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Disconnect between belief and actual practice in ensuring peaceful elections
Whose role is it to ensure peace? Belief
Whose role is it to ensure peace? Practice
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• Credibility of various courts of the judiciary increased with their seniority.
• Most credible: Supreme Court 22% magistrates’ court at 8%.
• Least credible:S upreme Court 12%. • Extreme perception of supreme court.• “Sometime ago if you were taking
someone with money to the court then that case goes nowhere but right now, we can see the changes in our judicial system, the cases are handled quickly”- Kisauni youth
• “To me I will say it was credible. They really did their best on the presidential elections, it read the mood of the country and maintained peace despite the challenges it faced”
• Mwingi men • “Most of them are easily corrupted”-
Lagdera women “Some judges’ still take bribes”- Moyale women
• “The constitution states that if we have election disagreements then we go to the courts and the verdict of the Supreme Court is final, so it provided a platform” Makadara youth
• “To me I will say it was credible. They (judiciary) really did their best on the presidential elections, it read the mood of the country and maintained peace despite the challenges it faced”
• Mwingi men
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• High recall: cohesion and national reconciliation “one nation/unity” • Low recall: messages targeting ethnicity, fighting and forgiveness• “I think in all those media they told Kenyans that we have to vote peacefully voting is not the one to
break us, I think every information that was going down there was keep peace, vote peace, maintain peace. They were also talking about tolerance especially because we were talking about Kenya being a diverse country, talking about tolerating each other during that time, you might be having different views politically but we should tolerate each other” - Nyeri youth
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• responsibility of ensuring free and fair elections believed • Mostly to belong to the IEBC, and the voter (69 and 60%). • Least to civil society and international community (8 and 5%}
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The Constitution
Self rating of their knowledge and source
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The Constitution
• Majority (44%) self rated level of knowledge “average” , good, very good (22% and 10%) • Sources of knowledge were mostly from media, materials and friends
“Yes I have because I read the constitution and I keep on reading it so I have information to defend it.” Turkana men “We understand a little bit. We were given the books but we have not gone through them thoroughly” “We have not been told about constitution”- Bomet women “Not enough because the constitution was made in Nairobi and they have never come to the grassroots to create awareness to
us and we even don’t have the booklets and we were also not taught about it” Laisamis youth “No I know very little about the constitution, I don’t think I can defend it” KII Minority group
• Poor knowledge of constitutional provisions regarding electioneering• Governor position most known• Specific message most recalled is on gender equality
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• A significant proportion had not heard of or had no idea of the roles of the NCIC or TJRC (45 and 38% respectively).Devolution was mainly associated with decentralization of power and sharing national resourcesHigh expectations of devolved government with almost half of the respondents (45%) recalling specific messages
Constitutional Commissions Devolution
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In regard to implementing the constitution, are we headed in the right direction?
• Yes (44%) – devolved government being in place (21%), I– implementation of the constitution by the president/positive
administration (17%), – equal opportunities, accessible services and development
(16%)– sustained peace (13%).
• no (22% ) – high cost of consumer goods ( 21%),– lack of unity among leaders ( 16%), – lack of implementing the constitution (16%), insecurity ( 15%) – nothing so far had been done ( 14%).
• don’t know (34%)
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Fostering and Expanding Citizen Participation in the political and Governance
Process• County Citizen Participatory Forums for vetting of leaders in Siaya,
Lamu, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Makueni. – eg Siaya County, some disqualified, direct nominees rejected
• Establishment of conflict response and monitoring units • Increased participation of the youth in electoral and
political/governance processes.• 90% of youth voted• mock elections conducted just prior to the actual elections • public interest litigations
– case against MPs refusal to pay taxes, – Leadership and Integrity case against current president and the deputy president – presidential petition to the Supreme Court.
“The level of engagement went down compared to the previous election. This is because people lost faith with the electoral body and fear of what happened in 2007 and the youths were being discriminated politically” Kisumu women
“Most of the youths did not participate in 2013 compared to 2007 general elections because of lack of IDs and intimidation by the government” Kakamega men
“For pastoralists it ( engagement) went up because the IEBC had the mobile registration and voting units” Moyale men
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Women leadership• Gender provision in the constitution recalled by most• 75.8% agree that the socio cultural values have played a significant role in stifling the
woman’s leadership ambition• patriarchal society that is not ready for a woman president; only 38% of Kenyans said
they can vote in a woman president.
“We got information on how to defend and protect your rights, gender balance like a third of women should be included on elective posts” Garrisa Men
“There are NGO’s that help women by giving them capacity building by encouraging them to participate in elections. The NGO’s like World Vision, SIFA and Red Cross helping groups that have gender balance” Moyale men
• The program was successful in communicating constitutional provisions regarding women
• There seemed to be hindrance of influencing traditional perceptions and attitudes to allow women leadership to emerge
• barriers of translating knowledge to perceptions and attitudes and finally to practice in respect to women leadership
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Outcomes (write conclusions)
• Increase in number of people embracing the new culture within the new Constitution
• Empowerment of citizens in exercising their rights and responsibilities in the electoral process and increased engagement
• Increased Participation of citizen’s in the electoral process
• Increased transparency and accountability in the electoral process.
• Increased inter ethnic tolerance among different communities
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Impact Co-Existence of Communities and Nationhood
Had impact•“People came together and realized the importance of peaceful voting and staying together as one community” KII Nyanza
•“There is peace because wananchi did not listen to the politicians who incite them to fight after they lose elections, but they followed their own voice and stayed in peace with each other” Garissa men
•“Yes. Because of security and civic education for people to get enlightened, people are educated on the importance of peace” Lagdera women
Limited impact •“In terms of co-existence as Kenyans, I think we have 20 more steps to go and UBI was one and half step. I think it needs more than UBI to reach to that co-existence that is up to my 20 steps” KII consortia
•“No. The government was just forming commissions to make money and these commissioners are not going to the grassroots to the communities affected. People have bottled up anger which might explode in future” Mwingi youth
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Leadership and Integrity Criteria, Transparency and Accountability
Had impact•“Like now they are rating the performance of counties, the top 5 and the bottoms 5 so if you see that your county is not performing then you raise your socks. This can really help” Kisauni youth
•“Before people used to vote for a candidate that came from their community but now we vote for someone who is going to deliver. People also look at the education level. Those things are removing the lines of ethnicity“ Turkana men Limited impact • “No one wants to know whether you are learned they look at the party and the tribe you come from” Eldoret women
•“That can’t change because of tribalism”- Wajir women
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Judicial Process
With impact
•We had faith in the Supreme Court”- Wajir youth
•“For me I think the judicial system contributed to peace, a few years ago there was a problem of dispute resolution such that if a person who losses goes to court the one who won gave the other money. But now IEBC had created a dispute resolution mechanism, so the case goes to court” Nyeri youth •
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Recommendations Programme should be continuous in respect to the election cycle with enhancement
and modification nearer the general elections. Avoid periods of high political temperature.
Develop a civic education program to sensitize leaders and citizenry on the realistic roles, responsibilities and expectations regarding devolution.
Translate print and electronic civic education materials into vernacular languages. Encourage timely release of funding for desired outcomes and for effective and
maximum impact. Lobby for the State to provide funding for civic education as provided for in the
constitution. Work closely with government, to strengthen KNICE and IEBC the main state-actors in
the electioneering process such the IEBC to provide leadership in vetting of aspirants. Engage and strengthen political institutions such as political parties to enhance
vetting of aspirants. Some donor prefer bilateral funding relationship between governments as opposed to
between donor governments and non-state actors. UT could also involve the private sector in both program funding and implementation
through PPPs. These have financial movers of the economy and have critical stake in regard to a peaceful election.
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• UT to enhance relationship with the state to influence the introduction of policies friendly to non-state actors eg education curriculum for long term civic education is achieved.
• Partner with service providers such as SAFARICOM and AIRTEL for use of mobile-based technology innovative methods, such as ring tones and competitions.
• Engage and strengthen the Judiciary so that the citizenry could have a positive perception in regard to their impartiality.
• Widen the demographic scope to include specific players who represent youth, women and disabled category at policy levels in organizations.
• UT to boost its organization staffing at the middle and lower levels particularly in media and communication.
• Engage, involve and consulting partners in major decisions and activities as well as regular updates on progress of various activities.
• Noting that the Constitution is very wide;– Have varieties of trainings not just lectures and books– Use group work and other participatory ways of learning and social media; – Have county-based trainings for the civic educators . Each county has its own issues– For Kenyans to develop a constitutional culture, have continuous engagement not “drop and go
thing near election.