A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 most. It also underscores the potential for the scaling-up of successful initiatives, while emphasizing the development of national capacities to foster sustainability. 10. Analysis of applications: in 2009, a total of 1,643 concept notes were received, requesting a total of $857 million. This compares with a total of 1,068 concept notes received in 2008, requesting a total of $525 million, which reflects increases of 53 per cent in the number of applications and 63 per cent in the funds requested in just one year. In 2009, the highest number of concept notes and the greatest amount of funds requested came from Africa (35 per cent), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (25 per cent) and Asia and the Pacific (24 per cent). Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Arab States, and cross-regional programmes represented 6 per cent each in terms of funds requested. In all regions, most concept notes came from women’s organizations and other non-governmental organizations (85 per cent), followed by governmental organizations (5 per cent) and United Nations country teams (3 per cent). 11. Grants awarded: the United Nations Trust Fund awarded $10.5 million for 13 initiatives in 18 countries and territories. Africa was awarded the greatest amount of funds (48 per cent), followed by Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean (20 per cent each) and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (12 per cent). For the first time, organizations in Gambia and Lesotho received funding. The majority of new grantees included women’s organizations and other non-governmental organizations (71 per cent), followed by United Nations country teams (19 per cent) and governmental organizations (10 per cent). By noting that governmental organizations constitute a minority in terms of both grantees and applicants, the United Nations Trust Fund focuses on encouraging applications from governmental organizations or partnerships between non-governmental and governmental organizations. 12. Highlights of new grants: new grantees will support the implementation of laws and policies through better coordination of services to protect women and girls from violence in Thailand and through the expansion of integrated services in Albania. In Sierra Leone, a grantee 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, a grantee will pilot a model of working in the area of sexual and reproductive health services to analyse the impacts of violence against women and girls and to increase support for survivors. A grantee working in the Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Senegal will scale up leading approaches to ending female genital mutilation/cutting, bringing about a shift from a health-based to a human-rights-based approach. In Uganda and six other locations in East and Southern Africa, a grantee will build on the award-winning SASA! (Start, Awareness, Support and Action) programme to address the intersection between violence against women and HIV and AIDS. 13. New grantees will also work with girls and young people. A grantee in Zambia will seek justice for sexually abused girls through improved laws and enforcement. In Cambodia, youth groups will mobilize around the issue of stopping domestic violence. A grantee in Bolivia will strengthen networks against sexual and intrafamily violence in order to prevent violence against girls and adolescents in the municipality of El Alto. Other grantees will reach out to excluded groups, including women at risk owing to the global financial crisis in Cambodia, women of the Roma 09-65802 7