The project sought to co-create and test innovative, transformative African Rooted Evaluation Frameworks and Tools that address global power assymetries in Knowledge production and elevate the voices of communities, young men and women targetted by development projects. Five African Rooted transformative and Culturally responsive frameworks were co-designed, tested and refined as follows;

1. Pamoja Safarini Theory of Practice: An African rooted Theory of Change that emphasis commitment to collective action, inclusivity and mutual support. Its an apporach centered on shared journies towards impact, emphasising collaboration and navigating challenges collectively.

2. Ngwanake Cultural Empowerment Framework; a youth-empowerment framework that engages youth in merging technology with indigenous knowledge to facilitate better youth participation in project planning and evaluation.

3. Community Language Based Evaluation; focuses on the use of provervs to ground project planning design, implementation and evaluation in community values.

4. People, Environment, Space, Place, and Time Ubuntu Framework;is a context-responsive African rooted people centred tool that promotes a holistic approach to contextualising project planning and evaluation.

5. Engagement, Participation, Involvement, and Ownership Ubuntu Framework; is designed to provide a unique, Afrocentric framework for manageing and evaluating rojects, deeply rooted in the African philosogpy of Ubuntu emphasizing interconnectedness, humanity and collective well being.

A six weeks online course to build evaluation capacity of young evaluators is still to be pilot tested.