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55. Other new Trust Fund grantees will up-scale and implement innovative
approaches for addressing violence against women. In Liberia, for example, the
Episcopal Relief and Development, a faith-based organization, will catalyse
Christian, interfaith and Muslim organizations to become agents of change, create
awareness of violence against women and girls in their communities and transform
beliefs and attitudes that legitimize and condone violence.
56. New grantees will also strengthen the capacities of journalists and the media to
raise awareness of the scale of violence against women and girls. In the State of
Palestine, the Community Media Centre will shed light on the pervasivene ss of
violence against women in Gaza and advocate for the creation of policies and
procedures to protect women from violence.
VI. The way ahead
57. The year 2015 is a significant one for the Trust Fund and for global initiatives
to prevent and end violence against women and girls. Almost 20 years after its
creation, the Trust Fund will respond to the evolving context provided by the
post-2015 development agenda in setting a new course for the coming years that is
true to its founding vision and agreed commitments. As one of the structural causes
of gender inequality, violence against women and girls is interrelated with all
critical areas that are holding women and girls back — in the public or private
sphere — and therefore must be addressed as such. To that end the Trust Fund will
centre its efforts within this framework of intersectionality and the existing
obligations of States under international and national law and focus on
implementation at the national and local level.
58. The Trust Fund’s strategy for 2015-2020 will focus on three core areas of
work. Grant giving remains key and the Trust Fund will work to increase its grant
giving portfolio in 2015 to $18 million, specifically targeting giving by the private
sector and individual giving, as well as voluntary contributions by Member States.
59. The Trust Fund will aim to make an important contribution to evidence -based
programming on violence against women and girls, by developing a knowledge
management infrastructure that enables the unique body of knowledge and
experience built up by Trust Fund grantees to be shared and to grow.
60. The Trust Fund will also focus on reversing the worldwide chronic
underfunding of initiatives to address violence against women and girls by
providing leadership in global advocacy and calling for a significant increase in
global giving to this issue. The communications vehicle for this call will be the
United Nations Trust Fund’s global resource mobilization campaign which will be
launched in March at the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of
Women.
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