A/HRC/29/3 E/CN.6/2015/6 implementation of national and international commitments by Member States and their translation into real changes in the lives of women and girls. III. Trust Fund grantee achievements in 2014 10. The sustainability both of the programmes themselves and of the improvements in the lives of women and girls that they bring about, is a key criterion for the Trust Fund in assessing its long-term impact. This in turn depends on building capacity among grantees to determine the effectiveness of initiatives and methodologies and to sustain them beyond the life of the grant. In 2014, one of the Trust Fund’s key annual capacity-building and monitoring initiatives, its development workshop for new grantees, was held in Turkey in March. The event aimed at enabling the 17 grantee organizations that attended to implement, monitor and evaluate their projects more effectively and in line with the Trust Fund ’s vision. In addition, it provided grantees with a valuable opportunity to exchange knowledge and share experiences and promising practices. 11. Drawing on the United Nations Trust Fund monitoring missions implemented this year, annual evaluation reports from grantees and discussions with partners and donors, the present report highlights Trust Fund grantee results in the following areas: preventing violence against young and adolescent girls through leadership development and education; implementing laws and policies to respond effectively to violence against women and girls; advancing transitional justice and addressing violence against women and girls in emergency settings; and engaging the private sector in prevention and response efforts. 12. Throughout 2014, the Trust Fund undertook extensive monitoring missions to 13 countries in four regions in order to validate the results and effectiveness of Tru st Fund-supported programmes. The Trust Fund visited seven grantees from Eastern Europe and Central Asia in six countries (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine); seven grantees from Asia in three countries (Cambodia, China and Thailand); four grantees from Africa in two countries (Nigeria and Uganda); and two grantees from the Caribbean (Belize and Grenada). These missions included meetings with grantee organizations, partner organizations, primary and secondary beneficiaries and key stakeholders and visits to key project sites. 13. In 2014, the implementation of Trust Fund programmes benefited over 1 million women, girls, men and boys. In total, over 700,000 women and girls were involved in programme activities, including 89,802 survivors of violence, 38,102 women and girls living with HIV/AIDS and 4,385 women human rights defenders. In addition, Trust Fund-supported programmes engaged 208,658 men and boys and strategically reached over 22 million people through awareness -raising, social media campaigns, radio and television shows, theatre and other forms of education-entertainment. Preventing violence against young and adolescent girls through leadership and education strategies 14. Violence against children often goes unnoticed and unreported. Although both boys and girls are victims of violence, their experiences of and vulnerabilities to 4/13 14-67252