A/HRC/16/34 E/CN.6/2011/9 4. The United Nations Trust Fund is well positioned to capitalize on the current global momentum to end violence against women and girls. Recent General Assembly resolutions explicitly refer to the importance of continuing to enhance the effectiveness of the Trust Fund as a systems-wide funding mechanism and reiterate the target set by the Secretary-General’s campaign “UNiTE to End Violence against Women” to raise $100 million annually in grant-making for the Fund by 2015. In 2010, the General Assembly urged States to significantly increase their contributions to the Fund 2 to help it to bridge the gap between a growing demand for programmes to end violence against women and girls and the resources required to do so effectively. 5. Guided by a new strategic plan for 2010-2015 entitled “Vision 2015”, the United Nations Trust Fund is focusing on three priorities: turning policy pledges into reality for women and girls; generating knowledge on “what works” to end the pandemic of violence against women and girls; and building new partnerships, ownership and expanded commitment to the Fund throughout the United Nations system and beyond. Paragraphs 6 to 29 below summarize the Fund’s progress in 2010 towards meeting those priorities. III. Translating promise into practice 6. The overarching focus of the United Nations Trust Fund is to support the implementation of laws, polices and action plans designed to end violence against women and girls. Initiatives that engage multiple sectors and encourage partnerships among key stakeholders are prioritized. As described below, grantees are promoting primary prevention and expanding services to survivors of violence. They are also strengthening the legal and political framework by improving access to justice and transforming pledges to end violence against women into concrete budgetary and policy commitments. An emphasis is placed on projects that strive to meet the needs of particularly marginalized or neglected groups, including youth, women living in conflict, and indigenous women. The Fund prioritizes interventions that address violence against women and girls holistically, as demonstrated by the special funding window to address the intersections of violence against women and HIV and AIDS. 7. Investments of the United Nations Trust Fund are yielding promising results towards ending violence against women and girls. Recognizing the success of the initiatives of the Fund, Governments and United Nations system agencies are increasingly scaling up grantees’ projects to maximize their impact, while civil society organizations across the globe are replicating the practices and strategies of grantees. The scaling up and replication of projects supported by the Fund demonstrates grantees’ success in designing effective interventions targeted at social and State institutions, as can be seen in budgetary allocations and other measures to support these interventions. Grantees are also fostering change at the community level as indicated by the decisions of many traditional and religious leaders to ban harmful traditional practices in their communities and advocate against other forms of violence against women. Finally, the number of men and boys publicly denouncing violence against women, as well as the women and girls coming __________________ 2 10-67259 A/C.3/65/L.17/Rev.2, para. 20. 3