A/HRC/19/30 E/CN.6/2012/13 providing sustained visibility to the issue. The new focus area will also enable the Fund to form an expanded and vibrant network of partners with experience in fragile conflict and post-conflict rehabilitation settings that will pool their resources and talent bases in order to help end violence against women and girls. In addition, the special focus area will further support the Secretary-General’s “UNiTE” campaign by targeting one of its five key outcomes: addressing sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations. The Fund will also complement the policy and coordination work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, by strengthening existing mechanisms on the ground through the provision of funds to organizations and institutions working to address this issue. As this new cohort of grantees begin project implementation in 2012, the Fund will tap into existing inter-agency networks operating in emergency situations, creating synergies with United Nations agencies at the field level, including the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. 43. As part of an ongoing effort to determine where investments are proving to be most effective, the Fund will continue to extract results from the outcome-mapping process and the supporting database. In 2012, the Fund will systematically collect data on the “multiplier effects” of the prevention programmes that it directly supports, in order to analyse how those efforts lead to results beyond the prevention of violence against women and girls, that is, how changes in attitudes, norms and behaviour result in better services for women in terms of both quality and quantity. In the light of the report’s findings in this area, the Fund will explore ways to develop a more standardized approach to primary prevention across grantees. 44. In terms of grantees addressing the intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS, the Fund will continue to provide specialized technical assistance to partners throughout the project implementation period in order to establish standard outcomes, set baselines and integrate monitoring and evaluation into their programmes as an integral component. In 2012, a paper will be published on the lessons learned from the first cohort of grantees working in this area in order to extract promising practices that have emerged from this cutting-edge learning initiative. The Fund considers not only the documentation of lessons learned, but also, and more important, the upscaling of proven approaches and best practices in addressing these twin pandemics as a funding priority. As the Fund matures, it will emphasize the discovery of particular models and approaches that are worth scaling up across its programmes. 45. Given the number of grantees currently using technology ranging from the Geographic Information System to mobile telephone applications as tools for preventing violence against women and girls, the Fund will connect those partners with national and international technology companies in 2012 in order to begin a conversation about how these local efforts can be upscaled and integrated across municipalities and districts in the target country. 46. In 2012, the Fund will launch a state-of-the-art online grant management system in order to capture and track grantees’ results more efficiently and make them more accessible to a global audience. The system will also allow for a better flow of information between the Fund secretariat in New York and the focal points in the subregional offices of UN-Women. In addition, it will allow for more efficient implementation of the Fund’s monitoring and evaluation plan. The grant 14 11-63260

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