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

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