A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 MenEngage Alliance, Save the Children, UNFPA and the White Ribbon Campaign. UNIFEM also joined the newly formed Advisory Committee of the international MenEngage Alliance in an effort to continue to deepen collaboration regarding masculinities and working with men and boys to prevent violence against women. Collaboration also continued with the Inter-Parliamentary Union at both the global and regional levels within the framework of its new workplan on violence against women. In addition to the Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action that UNIFEM brokered for the United Nations Trust Fund, as described earlier, UNIFEM, together with UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and private-sector supporters, joined in another announcement of the Initiative, led by a corporate leader, on mobilizing resources for the roll-out of national surveys conducted by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on sexual violence against girls in various countries. 54. UNIFEM continues to play a key role in inter-agency initiatives, including in United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, as a founding and active member; the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Sub-Working Group on Gender and Humanitarian Response; the Task Force on Violence against Women, established within the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (including as an implementing partner of the United Nations country team pilot programmes); the Inter-Agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls, with a focus on drawing attention to gender-based violence against members of that age group; and the Inter-Agency Working Group of the Secretary-General’s UNiTE campaign and the High-Level Steering Committee, chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General. Also in 2009, UNIFEM signed memorandums of understanding with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, which includes partnering on the Fund’s Global Programme on Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls, and partnering with UNODC in order to implement anti-trafficking programmes in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka. 55. At the country level, UNIFEM also serves as a lead or partner agency in United Nations country team programmes dedicated exclusively to addressing violence against women within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund in Bangladesh, Colombia and Morocco; and in the AsiaPacific joint regional programme entitled “Partners for Prevention: Working with Boys and Men to Prevent Gender-based Violence”, together with UNDP, UNFPA and United Nations Volunteers. 56. UNIFEM is an active contributor to the Secretary-General’s UNiTE campaign. In March 2009, the Fund organized the first global consultation with civil society on the campaign, convened together with OSAGI and the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, and spearheaded the coordination of the three United Nations regional campaigns in collaboration with the United Nations Regional Commissions and a range of United Nations agencies. The campaign in Latin America and the Caribbean 7 was launched in Guatemala on 25 November 2009; the Africa-wide __________________ 7 18 Partners include UNFPA, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, OHCHR, the Pan American Health Organization, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNIFEM, the United Nations Office for Project Services, the World Food Programme, the International Labour Organization, the Inter-American Commission of Women and the Inter-American Institute for the Cooperation on Agriculture. 09-65802