<p>The project on ‘Promoting Rights and Access to Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh’ was implemented by Leonard Cheshire Disability (United Kingdom) and the Centre for Disability in Development (Bangladesh). The project started in July 2008 and was completed in December 2011.</p><p>The project was evaluated in 2012 and was assessed as having achieved most of its objectives, albeit the evaluation noted that the Government of Bangladesh would need further encouragement to help more disabled children attend mainstream schools. Project successes included:</p><p>providing mobility devices for children; training for 37 instructors from the Primary Teachers Training Institute;</p><p>2,430 disabled children enrolled in mainstream schools;</p><p>2,364 disabled children retained in mainstream schools which represents 80% of children with disabilities in the project catchment area of which 99% were continuing with their education at the end of the project term;</p><p>support to the Government of Bangladesh to implement their policy on helping disabled children attend mainstream schools as part of the National Education Programme.</p>