A/HRC/26/17 E/CN.6/2014/8 strategies to end impunity for gender-based violence in conflict situations, including by gathering evidence, strengthening prosecution systems and establishing non-judicial, truth-telling mechanisms. Through the Trust Fund’s support, grantees have made great advances in enabling the implementation of legislation that addresses all forms of violence against women and girls. In 2013 alone, the Trust Fund supported programmes that reached more than 3 million women, men, girls and boys around the world, including more than 30,000 survivors of violence. The work of the Trust Fund remains vital in closing the gap between promises and action. 66. As the examples in previous sections of the present report show, the Trust Fund’s initiatives have achieved notable results and demonstrate that with political will, social commitment and allocation of resources, a world without violence against women and girls could be just a generation away. In its 17 years of existence, the Trust Fund has worked ceaselessly to turn this aspiration into a reality. Each year, without fail, it has issued its call for proposals, despite the challenging global financial environment. 67. The Trust Fund announced its eighteenth call for proposals on 25 November 2013. Given the promising results of community-based approaches and the central role of social mobilization to enact change, in this grant cycle the Fund will specifically and strategically invest in grass-roots women’s organizations and youthled organizations, in addition to well-established civil society organizations, Governments and United Nations country teams. Programmes that engage groups facing discrimination and exclusion, such as internally displaced people; refugees; women and girls living in conflict, post-conflict and transitional settings; and women with disabilities, will also receive special consideration. 68. The Trust Fund will continue to deepen the knowledge and expertise it has acquired over the years in identifying and supporting promising initiatives. Building on this wealth of experience, the Fund is able to continually adapt and refine the focus of its activities, prioritizing programmes with the greatest potential. It is this analysis based on knowledge that underpins the increased focus on community mobilization. 69. In the past five years, requests for funds have more than doubled. Conversely, the amount distributed by the Trust Fund has fallen more than 60 per cent since 2008, when a total of $21.1 million was distributed in grants, to 2013, when the total amount was $8 million. In 2008, the Trust Fund awarded grants to 4.2 per cent of applicants. By 2010 that figure had fallen to 1.1 per cent and by 2013 only 0.7 per cent of applicants received grants. 70. To fulfil its mandate and vision, the Trust Fund is stepping up its efforts to increase its pool of funds. The goal is to reach $15 million in grant-making funds for 2014. The Trust Fund is confident that Member States, the private sector and concerned individuals will work with the Fund to achieve this aim. 71. As the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-eighth session discusses the challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, the Trust Fund shares the commitment of Member States to expedite all efforts to end violence against women and girls. The Fund is confident that the issue will be integrated as a central component in the development agenda beyond 2015 and in the discussions surrounding the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. 16/16 13-61736