A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 Fund secretariat to nine grantees in six countries 6 in Africa and Asia, in addition to regular monitoring by United Nations Trust Fund focal points at subregional offices of UNIFEM. 28. Also in 2009, the United Nations Trust Fund partnered with MEASURE Evaluation, a partnership of experienced organizations supported by the United States Agency for International Development. MEASURE Evaluation has developed a leading global monitoring and evaluation tool, comprising indicators on violence against women, that is systematically shared with all new grantees in an effort to harmonize indicator selection. Select programmes implemented by United Nations country teams will serve as pilots for assessing how the indicators developed by MEASURE Evaluation can be used to systematically track and inform policy decisions. 29. Another key aspect of the United Nations Trust Fund’s achievements in 2009 with regard to capacity development and knowledge generation concerned the institutionalization of training and related support for grantees in the areas of evidence-based programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Through a public bid won by the International Centre for Research on Women, a curriculum was piloted and two training workshops were held, in Ethiopia in October and in India in December. Two other regional workshops, one in Spanish and one in French, are planned to be held in the first quarter of 2010 in Nicaragua and Senegal, respectively. After this process of validation and testing, the capacity development programme will be offered annually, and all new grantees will be invited to participate in the training at the early stages of project design. Mobilizing resources 30. The ability of the United Nations Trust Fund to pursue a strategic vision and ambitious plans in support of the country-level implementation of commitments to ending violence against women and girls relies on its capacity to mobilize adequate resources. As a result of the appeals made by the General Assembly in its resolutions 61/143, 62/133, 63/155 and 64/137 for the provision of increased resources to the United Nations Trust Fund, the outreach efforts of the Fund have been enhanced. 31. In 2009, the United Nations Trust Fund benefited from the continued support of the Government of Spain as the leading contributor, and from the continued contributions of the Governments of Austria, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Korea and Trinidad and Tobago. The Government of Kazakhstan contributed for the first time. The Governments of Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Spain and the United States of America generously increased their contributions. Private-sector and other resources were also available thanks to the ongoing support of Avon, Johnson and Johnson and Zonta International, and to contributions from the National Committees for UNIFEM in Austria, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Contributions received in the fourth quarter of 2009 after the grant-making cycle had ended will be awarded in the first quarter of 2010. 32. In 2009, the United Nations Trust Fund advanced a new fund-raising strategy, guided by the drive to reach the target of $100 million annually by 2015, a __________________ 6 09-65802 Botswana, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa and Zambia. 11