A/HRC/26/17 E/CN.6/2014/8 laws, Catholics for the Right to Free Choice, in partnership with state-level women’s machineries and state attorneys’ offices, established criminal investigation protocols for documenting gender-motivated killings in two states, Oaxaca and Colima. The protocols include technical guidelines and standardized judicial criteria for the investigation of such crimes. Oaxaca’s protocol also includes provisions that take into account the state’s pluralistic legal system and facilitate implementation in indigenous communities. The protocols provide for a multi-stakeholder monitoring and evaluation committee to guarantee State accountability (see also A/HRC/20/16, para. 112, on the relevance of protocols). 41. Increasing accountability for violence against women is also the focus of the Women’s Rights Initiative of the Lawyers Collective in India, a Trust Fund grantee. The organization designed an accountability tool, recognized as best practice, for monitoring the implementation of India’s Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act of 2005. The Collective publishes the monitoring and evaluation report “Staying Alive”, which collects information to measure progress and challenges in the law’s implementation. The reports provide a detailed analysis of existing infrastructure and budgets, the pre-litigation, litigation and enforcement stages and court orders and judgements. They also analyse the increase in the number of protection orders being issued and estimate the budgetary allocation needed to fully implement the law. 22 42. As a result of the organization’s advocacy, two national institutions, the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the National Mission for Empowerment of Women, have committed to undertake annual monitoring of the law. In order to facilitate such monitoring, the Collective published a manual on monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, as well as a manual on best practice relating to the implementation of the Act. The manual will be adapted to monitor new laws relating to sexual harassment, dowry practices and sexual assault. The process undertaken by the Collective is also an example of cross-fertilization, as women’s groups in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are using the methodology to expedite the implementation of laws in their countries. 43. Strengthening the capacities to monitor the implementation of laws and policies is also the main strategy of the Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The Provincial Secretariat, a Trust Fund grantee, supported the implementation of a strategy for protection against domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence. It designed and piloted a web-based database to register cases of domestic violence and to facilitate case monitoring that improved multisectoral information exchange and the institutional response to violence. As a result of the programme’s success, a new grantee, the United Nations country team in Serbia, is rolling out this system in other provinces of the country. 44. In addition to India, Mexico, Serbia and South Sudan, four other past and current Trust Fund grantees contributed substantially to the establishment and operationalization of laws and protocols to address violence against women and girls in 2013. In Cambodia, the Acid Survivors Trust International, a former grantee, and its partner, the Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity, played a central role in __________________ 22 13-61736 Reports are available from www.lawyerscollective.org/category/publications. 11/16