A/HRC/29/3 E/CN.6/2015/6 I. Introduction 1. The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women is a global, multilateral, grant-making mechanism established in 1996 pursuant to General Assembly resolution 50/166. It is administered by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) on behalf of the United Nations system. UN-Women provides the Trust Fund with a strong institutional foundation and field support through its regional, multi-country and country offices. The Trust Fund supports and strengthens the work of UN-Women to prevent and address violence against women and girls and works closely with the rest of the United Nations system through the members of its Programme Advisory Committee. 1 Working in synergy with UN-Women, other United Nations agencies and members of the Programme Advisory Committee, the Trust Fund plays a vital role in driving forward collective efforts that engage the wider community — women and men, girls and boys. The Trust Fund continues to ensure that its work integrates the Framework for Action of the Secretary-General’s campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women. 2. The Trust Fund is exclusively dedicated to addressing violence against women and girls in all its forms. It supports national, regional and cross -regional initiatives that work to systematically prevent, address, respond to and, with persistence, eliminate this global pandemic. To date, the Trust Fund has awarded $103 million to 393 initiatives in 136 countries and territories. Its current portfolio consists of 95 grants for projects in 75 countries and territories, for a total value of $56,311,108. 3. A commitment to and strategic implementation of a results-driven resource mobilization strategy enabled the Trust Fund to significantly increase its overall resources for grant making in 2014 and meet its target of raising $15 million. The financial contributions and political support of a range of partners were critical to the Trust Fund’s success. 4. As of December 2014, the Governments of Australia, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had contributed to the Trust Fund’s eighteenth grant-making cycle. Zonta International and the UN Women for Peace Association continued to support Trust Fund initiatives. The Trust Fund also received support from Benetton as well as the UN Women National Committees of Finland, Iceland, Japan and Switzerland. __________________ 1 2/13 In 2014, Programme Advisory Committee members at the global and regional levels included: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; International Labour Organization; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; United Nations Development Programme; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women; United Nations Children’s Fund; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; United Nations Population Fund; Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict; World Health Organization; World Food Programme; World Bank. Leading civil society organizations, intergovernmental org anizations and other experts at the global and field levels — including representatives from the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, Equality Now, and the International Organization for Migration — were also actively involved in the grant-making process. 14-67252