A/HRC/38/3 E/CN.6/2018/9 need by including, for the first time, a budget line for core funding to small women ’s organizations for a maximum of 7 per cent of direct activity costs. This core funding is separate from and in addition to the 7 per cent all organizations can currently request for indirect costs. 13. One measure of success and sustainability is the extent to which grantees are successful in obtaining new and additional funding, beyond the pr oject supported by the trust fund. In 2017, 6 out of 9 small grant recipients who requested recommendations managed to mobilize additional funds from other donors. Among them was Alafia, a small women-led organization in Togo working to eradicate harmful traditional widowhood practices that increase the risk of HIV infection. Although a 2012 law grants widows the right to refuse such practices, they remain widespread, especially in rural areas. Since being awarded a grant by the trust fund, Alafia has gone on to obtain $25,000 from the African Women’s Development Fund to encourage discussion among leaders of the Ewe community in order to explore possibilities for eradicating these practices. Alafia also obtained a second tranche of funding, totalling $24,306, from the United States Department of State through their Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund. This project focuses on eradicating harmful widowhood practices in Aneho communities in the south-east of the country. 14. Another grantee that has been able to secure further funding is the Women’s Justice Initiative, the only organization in Guatemala working to prevent gender based violence specifically in rural indigenous communities. A small trust fund grant enabled the organization to help overcome key obstacles that Mayan women face in accessing justice. In June 2017, the Women’s Justice Initiative was awarded a grant by Hivos and in July 2017, the Initiative was given a one -year grant of $45,000 by Dining for Women, a global giving circle. Those two grants will support a number of activities that the Initiative has initiated with the trust fund ’s support. 15. Small organizations often play a crucial role in empowering women to demand that existing norms are put into practice. For example, the grantee Equali ty is implementing a project to promote justice for survivors of gender-based violence in China. Its particular focus is on empowering women and girl survivors of violence from marginalized and underserved communities, such as lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and women living with HIV/AIDS, to advocate for their rights and gain access to legal assistance and social services. Two new implementing regulations for the national domestic violence law passed during 2017 in Yunnan Province directly incorporated perspectives from project experts. The first requires police to flag situations with a high risk of domestic violence and thereby better mobilize resources for survivors. The second involves strengthening the protection order mechanism in the new Anti-Domestic Violence Law. In addition, Equality and its partners reached out to over 50 survivors of domestic violence to begin collecting data for future empirical studies that will be used as advocacy tools. Equality and its implementing partner also trained 82 government officials to improve their understanding of domestic violence and appropriate legal and police responses. In addition, in the first six months of 2017, Equality provided services for 61 people, an increase over the previous year. 16. In Serbia, the grantee Astra, working with a State institution, the Centre for Human Trafficking Victims’ Protection, implemented a project to establish the referral procedures for victims of trafficking, many of whom are underage and from the Roma minority. In the first half of 2017, Astra received 2,106 calls, 75 per cent of which related to trafficking. Astra identified five new victims of human trafficking and 15 people at high risk of trafficking or some other form of violence, while 17-22602 5/16