The CGBV evaluation findings and recommendations are important to understand the effective approaches to violence against women( VAW) prevention from national to local level, following the socio-ecological model of a prevention approach. It is critical to capture the effect of existing gaps in coordination among the different government stakeholders from national to local level for VAW prevention, which limited the scope of ownership from the government for sustaining the interventions. That would benefit the evaluation team as well as capture challenges and way forward on the interventions even after the turnover of the government officials who were involved during the project implementation. Coordinated initiatives at the local level by the implementing CSOs and government and other stakeholders such as educational institutions and community groups, are also important to prepare and implement a VAW prevention and response action plan and a monitoring plan for upholding accountability. Impactful social norms changing approaches should be scaled up at the institutional and community levels. The lessons learnt from the evaluation have informed the project designs on the CGBV second phase, as well as prevention and response projects for the potential donors.
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