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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
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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.
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