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Violence Against Women Programs

The Office on Violence Against Women programs improve the nation's response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. These grant programs help States and localities build community capacity to combat these crimes, develop and strengthen victim services, and encourage community collaboration.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The programs are generally well-managed and largely achieve the goal of improving the nation's response to domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. In 2005, 3,250 communities achieved an improved capacity for a coordinated community response to address violent crimes against women with the help of these grant programs.
  • The program has met or exceeded recent performance targets, including increasing training on domestic violence and sexual assault issues, but needs to set more challenging targets to support continuous improvement in the results achieved by grantees.
  • Independent and comprehensive evaluations would help demonstrate the impact of the programs.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Setting more ambitious goals for program performance to ensure continuous improvement in program results.
  • Including performance information in budget submissions to better link resources requested to program performance goals.
  • Developing a comprehensive evaluation plan for the Violence Against Women Programs to obtain better information on the programs' impacts.

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