A/HRC/16/34
E/CN.6/2011/9
Expanding survivor access to support services
14. The United Nations Trust Fund supports coordinated, holistic and
multisectoral responses that address the interrelated needs of survivors of violence,
including safety and protection, access to health, legal, property and inheritance
rights, and economic security and rights. One third of the Fund’s active grants
employ strategies to provide care, treatment and rehabilitation to victims and
survivors of violence. A programme of Movimiento Manuela Ramos has contributed
to a 14 per cent rise in the reporting rate of domestic violence in an isolated and
conflict-prone region of Peru with a majority indigenous population. In that
challenging context for reaching and assisting survivors, the initiative has greatly
improved cross-sectoral coordination for referrals by convening a task force of
government officials, civil society organizations and service providers to develop an
inter-agency protocol for responding to survivors’ needs. Social Services of
Cambodia has developed the first community-based response model in Cambodia
for survivors of sexual assault, designed to meet the needs of 80 per cent of women
and girls who prefer to receive support services directly from the community as
opposed to in a shelter. As the rate of women receiving community-based services
has grown by 25 per cent, communities have become more informed about the
causes and consequences of sexual assault and local authorities have improved their
capacity to support survivors and refer them to legal and medical services,
appropriate counselling, and safety assessment and planning.
15. United Nations Trust Fund grantees provide coordinated care to women living
with HIV and AIDS who are at risk of violence, or survivors of violence who may
require HIV-related services. The grantee Doctors to Children developed a highly
successful model of integrated care in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, to reach
HIV-positive women who are pregnant or have children. Government and
non-governmental institutions joined together to develop an inter-agency protocol
for reaching this high-risk yet underserved population. After a successful pilot
programme in the Kalininsky district, the city government expanded the scope of the
programme to apply to service providers city-wide. To date, nearly 600 women have
received assistance in the form of social and psychological support, advice on legal
issues, temporary housing and material support.
16. Service delivery to survivors of violence living in conflict, post-conflict and
unstable situations poses a complex set of challenges, requiring creative
interventions for the 17 per cent of grantees working in those settings. International
Medical Corps United Kingdom has developed a mobile care model to provide
comprehensive treatment to survivors of sexual violence from the Central African
Republic now living in northern Cameroon. In only one year of implementation, the
rate of sexual violence survivors receiving medical care and counselling has
increased fourfold. Previously unavailable testing for HIV, as well as access to
antiretroviral treatment for the 50 per cent of survivors who test positive, are now
standard practice. The national reparations programme of Sierra Leone has received
the first grant of its kind from the United Nations Trust Fund to ensure that
reparations programmes are tailored to the needs of women survivors of sexual
violence. Through a strong collaboration with local women’s organizations, the
programme registered 3,600 victims of sexual violence and prioritized 600 of the
most vulnerable victims to receive reparations. After only one year of
implementation, 300 women are participating in skills-training programmes across
6
10-67259
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents