A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 United Nations resident coordinators from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru once again participated in the Inter-Agency Programme Appraisal Committee for that subregion, joined this year by United Nations resident coordinators from Bolivia (Plurinational State of) and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). Also reflective of the important and potential role that United Nations agencies can play in enhancing the impact and sustainability of United Nations Trust Fund grantees are the efforts made in India by UNICEF, which is supporting the continuation of a district-based programme by a former grantee, focusing on violence against women and children. 18. The private sector has an important role to play in ending violence against women and girls. In 2009, Avon Products Incorporated and Johnson and Johnson were lead private-sector partners of the United Nations Trust Fund. Since 2005, Johnson and Johnson has supported the Fund’s special window on links between violence against women and HIV and AIDS. The non-profit organization Zonta International has also made contributions, together with the National Committees for UNIFEM in Austria, Japan and New Zealand. 19. In 2009, UNIFEM brokered a new Commitment to Action of the Clinton Global Initiative, featuring the global drive of the United Nations Trust Fund to raise $100 million annually by 2015, as called for in the Framework for Action of the Secretary-General’s campaign. The United Nations Trust Fund also initiated outreach to select major foundations. 20. In 2009, the United Nations Trust Fund also made important progress in recruiting and partnering with leading research and expert institutions devoted to ending violence against women and girls. Collaboration was established with those institutions on training and technical assistance for grantees in the areas of evidence-based programming, monitoring and evaluation (see paragraphs 28 and 29 below). 21. UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman consistently highlights the urgent need to take action to end violence against women and girls, and to raise additional critical resources for the United Nations Trust Fund. For example, Ms. Kidman and the United Nations Trust Fund grantee Breakthrough testified before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives. In addition, the UNIFEM global call for action “Say NO — UNiTE to End Violence against Women” 4 is encouraging donations to the United Nations Trust Fund. Through its online platform, “Say NO” also provides an opportunity to showcase action by United Nations Trust Fund grantees to end violence against women. Ensuring efficiency 22. The United Nations Trust Fund promotes efficiency at various levels of its operations and grant-making. For example, it provides an efficient mechanism for improving the coherence of programme strategies and approaches aimed at ending violence against women and girls, for pooling and tracking global resources and for strengthening monitoring and accountability. All of those functions are in accordance with the principles of alignment, harmonization, managing for results and mutual accountability, set out in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. __________________ 4 09-65802 See http://www.saynotoviolence.org. 9