Detailed description of project Back
The TRANSFORM Project aimed to enhance the employability of young people and improve the professional skills of workers in Djibouti’s transport, logistics, and port sector—a cornerstone of the national economy. Funded by the European Union through the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, the initiative was implemented from 2017 to 2023.
The project was structured around three key components:
- Creation of the Resource and Competence Centre (CRC) – a state-of-the-art public–private training hub near the Port of Djibouti, providing advanced technical courses for thousands of young people and professionals.
- Professionalization of the sector’s workforce – through regulatory frameworks, capacity building for enterprises and associations, and the development of innovative financing mechanisms for training.
- Institutional strengthening of the Djibouti Chamber of Commerce (CCD) – enhancing coordination, monitoring, and governance of the transport and logistics sector.
This ex-post evaluation of the TRANSFORM project, commissioned by the European Union Delegation to Djibouti, aims to provide an independent and comprehensive assessment of the project’s overall performance. Specifically, the evaluation seeks to:
- Measure achievements at all levels of results against planned objectives;
- Analyze key factors that enabled or hindered these results; and
- Identify lessons learned and recommendations to inform decision-makers and improve future EU-funded interventions.
This evaluation covers the full project period (2017–2023) and assesses the intervention across seven OECD-DAC criteria: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, and the added value of the European Union.
Type of services provided:
The evaluation involves a structured, four-phase process combining documentary analysis, fieldwork, and stakeholder engagement:
- Inception Phase – review of background documents, stakeholder consultations, and reconstruction of the project’s intervention logic and theory of change.
- Desk and Field Phase – detailed data collection and interviews with beneficiaries, institutional partners, and private-sector actors in Djibouti.
- Synthesis Phase – consolidation and analysis of findings, formulation of conclusions, lessons learned, and strategic recommendations.
- Dissemination Phase – presentation of results through a final report, summary materials (infographics and video), and a national dissemination seminar to share insights with policymakers, institutions, and the public.
Key Personnel Provided:
- Team Leader (34 w/d)
- KE2 (28 w/d)
- KE3 (16 w/d)
