Bangladesh
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The Final Evaluation of the project “Reducing Vulnerability of Women affected by Climate Change through sustainable livelihood options” offered highly instrumental findings, lessons and recommendations for future gender inclusive climate change and disaster risk reduction programing. The recommendations have been taken into consideration in the development of Bangladesh Country Office Strategic Note for 2017-2021 and 2017 AWP. The resources initially allocated for final evaluation had been reduced by 70% due to funding loss in the final year, as a result of the currency fluctuation. So the scope of the evaluation was made limited. It focused only on relevance, effectiveness and results/impacts of the project. Major adjustments in other deliverables for last year of the project had also been made. Within the limited scope of the evaluation, the objectives of the project found to be really fruitful. Overall it was a very positive evaluation. It provided enough evidence that the project initiatives were inevitably relevant and appropriate according to local as well as national need. The project contributed towards the inclusion of gender in the climate change actions and strategies in Bangladesh and enhanced women’s participation in dialogues and discussions. There were significant achievement in terms of use and influence of the knowledge products produced. UN agencies as well as other UN Women country offices have been using the study findings, while experts developing policy instruments for the government were being motivated to incorporate gender aspects with evidence provided by the studies. UN Women’s efforts through the project continue to be relevant to the future needs. The recommendations spelled out in the evaluation are mostly identifying programme areas where there is scope of further intervention and improvement. The evaluation recommended UN Women to consider contextualized needs of the target women during and after disasters, developing women friendly early warning system for better preparedness considering their mobility, school awareness programme since girl students can be the frontline actors of making women aware about vulnerability of women, strengthening the capacity of local disaster management committees so that they can connect people with their activities from community to household level for strengthening future programme. Emphasis should also be given on institutional strengthening to bring real changes in women’s lives.
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