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developing and ensuring the enactment of the 2012 Acid Attack Law. As a result, in
early 2013, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court handed down the first conviction for
an acid attack. In the Pacific island of Tonga, advocacy and technical assistance by
the Regional Rights Resource Team of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, a
former grantee, laid the foundation for the enactment in 2013 of the Family
Protection Bill, the first domestic violence legislation in the country. In Grenada, the
Ministry of Social Development, Housing and Community Development is
finalizing the first standard operating procedures for the health-care sector for the
care, management and treatment of survivors of gender-based violence. In Sierra
Leone, the International Rescue Committee provided technical assistance to the
Government in drafting a more effective version of the standard operating
procedures for handling sexual and domestic offences. The revised version,
endorsed in June 2013 by the Sierra Leone Police, was prepared by the police and
by the judiciary and will facilitate the implementation of the 2012 laws relating to
gender justice.
IV. Generating knowledge and developing capacities
45. Through capacity-building initiatives and the evaluation of its programmes,
the Trust Fund promotes the development of innovative, promising and sustainable
practices to prevent and end violence against women and girls.
46. In 2013, the Trust Fund continued to support global learning initiatives
through its thematic windows. The thematic windows focus on addressing the
intersection of HIV/AIDS and violence against women and on addressing violence
against women in conflict, post-conflict and transitional settings. In 2013, the Trust
Fund established a new thematic window on addressing violence against adolescent
and young girls.
47. The thematic windows are particularly useful for generating knowledge and
stimulating action in strategic programme areas. In this context, in June 2013 the
Trust Fund and the multi-country office of UN-Women in South Africa organized a
learning workshop to deepen the knowledge and strengthen the capacity of grantees
addressing the intersection of HIV/AIDS and violence against women. The
three-day event brought together 15 grantees from seven programmes working in
Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe to share promising practices and lessons learned, to
measure progress towards the common outcomes and to strengthen coordination.
Building on the first learning workshop held at the start of these programmes in
2011, the second workshop bridged knowledge gaps and improved the evidence
base on how violence and HIV/AIDS interact in the lives of women and how these
two interrelated issues can be effectively and holistically addressed.
48. The Trust Fund also convened a learning and sharing workshop in April 2013
for four grantees working to address violence against women in conflict,
post-conflict and transitional settings. As grantees shared their experiences, a set of
synergies related to advocacy, research, knowledge generation and common
indicators emerged. The thematic window will generate information on
mainstreaming gender in transitional contexts and on documenting gender-based
violence in conflict and post-conflict settings.
49. The Trust Fund organized its tenth five-day capacity development workshop in
New York in April and May 2013. The workshops are organized for each new cycle
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