A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 minority in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and indigenous women’s groups in Guatemala and Mexico. A summary of new grantees can be found at the United Nations Trust Fund website. 3 Deepening involvement 14. Violence against women cuts across all sectors, population groups and public and private spaces, requiring the engagement of multiple stakeholders. Securing the involvement of traditional and new actors to end it is thus a hallmark of the United Nations Trust Fund’s strategy, centred on mobilizing broad-based partnerships and garnering support from an ever-growing range of actors. This includes States Members of the United Nations, donors, non-governmental organizations and United Nations sister agencies, among others, in addition to the central roles that grantees themselves play at the country and regional levels by mobilizing new and influential constituencies, as described earlier. 15. Since its establishment, the United Nations Trust Fund, as a United Nations system-wide mechanism, has been based on United Nations partnerships, working to increase ownership of the United Nations Trust Fund across the United Nations system. United Nations sister agencies are members of the Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee, which advises and participates regularly in decision-making on policy and grant-making issues. In 2009, Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee members at the global and subregional levels included 19 United Nations agencies, representatives of other inter-agency mechanisms and leading international civil society organizations, notably Amnesty International, the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership and Human Rights Watch. 16. In 2009, participating United Nations agencies at the global and subregional levels included the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Economic Commission for Africa, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UNIFEM, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Food Programme (WFP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. In addition, United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict provided lead technical advice on applications coming from conflict and post-conflict settings, and, for the first time, the secretariat of the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund participated, which is especially relevant in the light of the fact that United Nations country teams have been eligible since 2008 to apply to the United Nations Trust Fund. 17. In 2009, a total of 18 meetings of the Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee were convened at the global and subregional levels in 15 countries. As a testament to the growing engagement, and in keeping with trends in recent years, __________________ 3 8 See http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_women/trust_fund.php. 09-65802