A/HRC/16/34 E/CN.6/2011/9 forward to break their silence, reveal that the initiatives of the Fund are changing the individual attitudes and behaviours that give rise to violence against women. 8. The United Nations Trust Fund has a current portfolio of 83 active grants across 72 countries and territories with a total value of nearly $47 million. Africa has the largest portfolio (29 per cent), followed closely by Asia and the Pacific (26 per cent). Latin America and the Caribbean account for 20 per cent of grants. Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States comprise 14 per cent, followed by Arab States and cross-regional programmes with a grants portfolio of 6 and 5 per cent, respectively. Primary prevention 9. Preventing violence against women and girls requires sustained, long-term initiatives that target the root causes of violence. Approximately one third of the United Nations Trust Fund’s active grants are focused on primary prevention and employ multiple interventions designed to change both institutional practices and individual attitudes and behaviour that lead to violence. These interventions include empowering women and girls to identify, articulate and claim their rights; raising awareness about violence against women through public outreach and mass communications; and mobilizing communities to advocate for long-term policy changes or more rigorous implementation of existing laws and policies. In addition, at least 45 per cent of current grantees engage men and boys as partners in ending violence against women, while 25 per cent enlist religious and traditional leaders as allies in changing community views on violence against women. 10. Grantees of the United Nations Trust Fund use strategies to empower women facing multiple forms of discrimination, such as those working with indigenous populations and ethnic minority groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nepal and the Philippines. In Jamaica, the Sistren Theatre Collective uses the performing arts to empower women and girls in poor, urban and highly volatile areas of Kingston. Through street theatre productions that have reached over 5,000 people, Sistren opens opportunities for women to share their personal stories in a safe environment and prompts individuals, and even whole communities, to consider non-violent methods for dispute resolution. Now recognized nationally and regionally 3 for its success in using the creative arts to address gender-based violence, Sistren has partnered with several Government ministries and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to share its model in schools and communities nationwide. 11. The United Nations Trust Fund supports programmes in all regions focused on engaging men and boys in efforts to address violence against women, including the first large-scale initiative of this kind in the Middle East. Oxfam Great Britain and Kafa, its partner in Lebanon, have developed a model for women’s organizations to engage men by incorporating men’s perspectives into campaigns to end violence. Women’s organizations have built partnerships with diverse actors, including male university students who help to craft outreach messages for dissemination in the media, universities and other sites of public discourse in Lebanon. A public sensitization campaign about the impact of violence against women on society as a __________________ 3 4 In 2010, Sistren was granted a puma.creative Mobility Award to promote its model throughout the Caribbean. See http://www.creativecaribbeannetwork.com/page/4979?forum_start= n5004#comment-5004. 10-67259