UN Women Bangladesh Office welcomes the findings and recommendations of the evaluation. The evaluation confirmed that that the project has addressed very relevant rights and needs of women and girls to live a life free of violence and have implemented relevant programming strategies in doing so. The project ensured institutional policies and actions that are in place to prevent VAW in the targeted universities, as well as strengthening the monitoring and accountability role of the University Grants Commission in prevention of sexual harassment in universities. The project was also effective in changing the state of knowledge, attitude and practices of students and teachers on sexual harassment. At the institutional level, the evaluation found that all four universities developed an overall strategy for taking action to address and prevent sexual harassment following igh Court Directive on Sexual Harassment (2009). The evaluation also pointed out some of the challenges regarding limited institutional support to the Sexual Harassment Complaints Committees. As UN Women in Bangladesh will continue to work on ending violence against women with a focus on preventing violence before they occur, the recommendations of the evaluation is already informing the design of the new programme that will be implemented over the next 4 years.
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