[{"bbox": [93, 153, 1135, 271], "category": "Text", "text": "supported by the selection of themes/issues which are less controversial, sensitising government officials, building the confidence and professionalism of the CSO interlocutors via trainings for effective dialogue with government and establishing clear local ownership of the initiative (with the lead implementing partner playing a facilitating role but stepping back from active management of the discussions)."}, {"bbox": [93, 280, 1135, 456], "category": "Text", "text": "Key recommendations in this regards are: 1) The EU should seek to engage more closely with CSOs in the country and the wider donor community to share learnings, experiences and examples of best practice in gaining the buy-in of the government and 2) Future engagements with the national level government should be planned to allow more space, skills and time for building national level buy in where feasible based on Political Economy Analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, and global and tactical theories for advocacy and policy change, such as Power Elites theory etc."}, {"bbox": [93, 466, 1135, 700], "category": "Text", "text": "**Gender Equality:** P4D did not achieve the level of success initially planned with regard to the inclusion of women and girls. Engagement of women and girls at comparative levels to men remained challenging given the cultural/social context. A key recommendation was to undertake a contextual analysis with input from experienced gender equality experts in Bangladesh to inform a gender mainstreaming strategy for the project and to ensure activities are designed in a way in which women can equally participate and benefit. Issues related to gender equality (the same is true for human rights and the leave no one behind principle) should be made explicit in the project's theory of change, logframe reporting, MEL data collection and design, to demonstrate more visibly the contribution to the UN SDG agenda."}, {"bbox": [93, 710, 1135, 796], "category": "Text", "text": "**Horizontal scaling for broader impact:** Programmatic efforts could expand horizontally to other regions of the country to generate critical mass and extend improvements in democratic culture across various areas."}, {"bbox": [93, 809, 1135, 957], "category": "Text", "text": "**Amplify social and traditional media campaigns:** While social media campaigns offer broad reach, television remains a significant communication channel in Bangladesh. Large-scale TV communication campaigns, which include accessible means of communication (caption, sign language interpretation etc.) still hold value in communication strategies, and future programming should not overlook the potential of this important media platform."}, {"bbox": [93, 966, 1135, 1172], "category": "Text", "text": "**Shift focus from knowledge-raising to behaviour change:** Most project hope to influence behaviour, often through knowledge and awareness raising activities. P4D's behaviour change approach, drew from behavioural economists and behavioural scientists' understandings of key factors and sought to influence stakeholders' capabilities, opportunities and motivations through project interventions rather than simple awareness-raising or training activities. This approach, to leverage behavioural theory should be made available to CSO partners that seek to influence behaviours and encourage them to move beyond simplistic awareness raising activities and training models."}, {"bbox": [93, 1182, 1135, 1358], "category": "Text", "text": "**Utilise cost category-based budget templates for transparency and oversight:** For projects spanning three years or more and exhibiting complexity akin to the P4D programme (involving multiple activities, tasks, and expenditures), budget templates categorised by cost are preferable. These templates depict costs against results, ideally at the output level, offering greater transparency, accuracy, and oversight for budget implementation, including by the donor. Budgets will also include gender sensitive and disability inclusive requirements."}, {"bbox": [86, 1681, 204, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 18 of 33"}]