A/HRC/16/34 E/CN.6/2011/9 United Nations initiatives to address violence against women. The “Say NO — UNiTE to End Violence against Women” online advocacy platform of UNIFEM (http://www.saynotoviolence.org/) encourages donations for the Fund and showcases the achievements and impact of its grantees. In 2011, the Fund will join with the Secretary-General’s UNiTE campaign to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Fund and the fifth anniversary of the Secretary-General’s ground-breaking in-depth study on all forms of violence against women (A/61/122/Add.1 and Corr.1). 25. The United Nations Trust Fund has built partnerships with leading research and expert institutions, including the International Center for Research on Women, PATH, and the USAID MEASURE project. The Fund is brokering new partnerships with philanthropists, high-profile spokespersons, and other individuals capable of raising the Fund’s visibility while expanding engagement with the private sector. V. Generating knowledge and developing capacities 26. Although the number and breadth of interventions addressing violence against women and girls has increased in the last decade, there is a dearth of rigorous evaluation assessing their impact on women’s lives. Consequently, it remains difficult to identify “what works” in preventing and redressing such violence. In 2010, the United Nations Trust Fund implemented the recommendations made by the 2009 external evaluation, which urged the Fund to develop the capacities of grantees to conduct effective monitoring and evaluation and to improve the Fund’s processes for capturing and disseminating knowledge. 27. The United Nations Trust Fund strengthened its processes for monitoring and evaluation by providing technical feedback to grantees starting in the proposal development phase and continuing with assistance in developing and implementing grantees’ monitoring and evaluation plans. As in previous years, the 2010 Call for Proposals for the fifteenth grant-making cycle recommended that applicants dedicate 10 per cent of grants requested to evaluation, and an additional 2 to 5 per cent to monitoring. The United Nations Trust Fund secretariat grew its own capacity to monitor grantee programmes by visiting twice as many grantees in 2010 as the previous year, totalling 7 monitoring visits to 18 grantees in 14 countries, in addition to the regular monitoring by focal points for the Fund at UNIFEM subregional offices. 28. Closing the gaps in grantees’ capacity to design and implement programmes and knowledge about “what works” in ending violence against women is central to the mandate of the United Nations Trust Fund as described in the Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Management Framework 2008-2011. In 2010, the Fund institutionalized capacity-development training for all new and recently funded grantees on evidence-based programme design, monitoring and evaluation. The Fund held four regional skills-building workshops in three languages, reaching a total of 43 organizations. 4 The workshops were modelled after two successful pilot workshops convened in 2009 in partnership with the International Center for Research on Women. Grantees responded enthusiastically to the Fund’s capacity__________________ 4 10-67259 Two regional workshops were held in June 2010, one in Dakar for French-speaking grantees and one in Managua for Spanish-speaking grantees. Workshops conducted in English took place in Nairobi and Bratislava in October and November 2010, respectively. 9