A/HRC/38/3 E/CN.6/2018/9 of Parliament, independent institutions, the Republican and Provincial Institutions for Social Protection and international organizations and presented findings of a study about various forms and manifestations of violence to which women with mental disabilities are exposed in custodial institutions, including the administration of contraceptives without informed consent, forced abortions, sterilization and sexual violence. 26. During the reporting period, 15 women with mental disabilities who have previously or are currently in custodial institutions were involved in training programmes held for 68 service providers. The women contributed import ant insights into their experiences and all participants assessed this approach as innovative, important and beneficial. The project has made a significant impact in several areas: making women’s stories visible to the public, contributing to a change of p ractice in custodial institutions and framing custodial violence as an important topic in gender and disability policies. III. Results and evidence 27. The trust fund’s strategic plan, 2015-2020, calls for the creation of a results framework to translate the plan into measurable results. One of the key aspects of this is evaluating the results attributable to the organizations that have been awarded grants. This required the development of a core set of common, standardized indicators that grantees could apply and on which they could report. Following an earlier pilot, a new approach was tested in 2016 whereby the trust fund reviewed all progress reports against project-specific results frameworks and indicators, so as to identify those grantees measuring and reporting on the same or similar indicators. Building on this experience, a small set of standard, common indicators was developed in late 2017 to collect and aggregate data on similar results achieved across the portfolio of grantees. For example: 36 grantee organizations report that at least 10,540 women and girls were reached using specialist support services, including trauma counselling and shelters, as a result of trust fund projects in 2017. 28. An annual partner survey was conducted for the second time in 2017. 109 individuals from 61 organizations in the trust fund ’s active portfolio completed the survey in 2017. The increased visibility and publicity provided by the trust fund is a benefit cited, in that 52 per cent of respondents said that additional financing has been raised during the grant period, resulting in $6.5 million being raised in additional financing for the continuation or scaling-up of the project funded by the trust fund. 29. One of the ways in which the trust fund contributes to expanding the knowledge and evidence base on effective models to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls is a series of knowledge-exchange events. In early 2017, the trust fund was able to analyse in depth the results of the first of these events, held in October 2016 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This brought together 16 organizations from 10 countries and territories in the Europe and Central Asia region involved in providing multisectoral services, who had received trust fund grants between 2007 and 2016. 30. Examples of the results identified by independent, external evaluators included two projects in Albania implemented by the non-governmental organization Refleksione (the Albanian network against gender violence and trafficking), between 2007 and 2012, which led to the establishment of a network of shelters and counselling centres for survivors and women at risk, the approval of the decree on the 8/16 17-22602