New grants from the UN Women Trust Fund to End VAW

Progress for Women Is Progress for All

The grants will support governments, non-governmental organisations and UN Country Teams in implementing laws, policies and action plans to end violence against women and girls. The initiatives which are being supported focus on the needs of the most vulnerable and underserved — adolescent girls and girls from ethnic and indigenous minorities — as well as on engaging strategic groups such as traditional leaders and men as key agents of change.

Resources for the UN Trust Fund fall drastically short of the amount needed to meet the vast demand. Money came in more slowly last year but a further US$10 million received in the final quarter will be available to make additional grants early in 2010. Grant requests totalling US$857 million were received in 2009, a sharp increase from previous years, both in terms of the number of applications and the amount of funding requested.

Ban Ki-Moon has urged UN member states and donors across the world to support the goal of his UNiTE campaign and raise US$100 million annually for the Trust Fund by 2015.

About the 2009 Grantees

New grants will support the implementation of laws and policies through better coordination of services to protect women and girls in Thailand (UN Country Team), and the expansion of integrated services in Albania (Refleksione on behalf of the Albanian Network against Gender Violence and Trafficking). The Sierra Leone National Commission for Social Action will carry out recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to assist more than 650 survivors of sexual violence through reparations.

In Cameroon, Lesotho, Namibia and Nigeria, the International Planned Parenthood Federation will pilot a model of working through sexual and reproductive health services to analyse the impacts of violence against women and to increase support for survivors. Save the Children will scale up a proven approach for ending female genital mutilation in Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Senegal, shifting an existing emphasis from a health to a human rights approach. In Uganda and six other locations in East and Southern Africa, Raising Voices will build on the award-winning SASA! (Start, Awareness, Support, Action) programme to address the links between violence against women and HIV/AIDS.

Several new grantees will work with girls and young people. In Zambia, Equality Now will seek justice for sexually abused girls through improved laws and enforcement. In Cambodia, Youth Star will mobilise youth groups around stopping domestic violence. In Bolivia, Asociación CUNA will strengthen networks against sexual and intra-family violence to prevent violence against girls and adolescents in the municipality of El Alto. Other grantees will reach out to particularly excluded groups of women and girls, including women at risk due to the global financial crisis in Cambodia (Care International), women of the Roma minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Prava Za Sve), and indigenous women’s groups in Guatemala (Population Council) and Mexico (UN Country Team).

Find out more about the UN Women Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women at www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/trust_fund.php

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