A/HRC/19/30 E/CN.6/2012/13 5. Guided by a strategic plan for 2010-2015 entitled “Vision 2015”, the Fund is focusing on three main priorities: turning policy pledges into reality for women and girls, generating knowledge on what works in ending the pandemic of violence against women and girls, and building new partnerships, ownership and expanded commitment with respect to the Fund throughout the United Nations system and beyond. Paragraphs 6 to 36 below summarize the progress made by the Fund in 2011 towards the realization of these priorities. III. Translating promise into practice 6. Since its inception, the Fund has been a key global mechanism for transforming Government pledges to end violence against women into concrete budgetary and policy commitments by enhancing the quality and increasing the quantity of support available for the on-the-ground implementation of effective programmes. 7. By the end of 2011, the Fund had a portfolio of 96 active grants, covering 86 countries and territories, with a total value of more than $61 million. The Africa region had the largest portfolio (32 per cent), followed by Asia and the Pacific (25 per cent), Latin America and the Caribbean (19 per cent), and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (12 per cent). The Arab States region had the smallest portfolio (5 per cent), and cross-regional programmes accounted for 7 per cent of the entire portfolio. The Fund supports 12 United Nations country team programmes, awarding $10.8 million in grants to support vital initiatives to prevent and address violence against women and girls. The United Nations Population Fund is the lead agency for six programmes, UN-Women is the lead agency for four programmes, and the United Nations Development Programme and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean are the lead agencies for one programme each. 8. In order to address the serious gaps in moving from commitment to action to end violence against women and girls, the grant-making of the Fund has strategically focused on supporting the implementation of laws, policies and action plans. Initiatives that engage multiple sectors and encourage partnerships among key stakeholders are prioritized. As described below, active grantees supported by the Fund in 2011 are promoting primary prevention, expanding services to survivors of violence and building the institutional capacities of first responders. The Fund places a special emphasis on programmes addressing the intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS and on those benefiting women in conflict, postconflict and transitional societies. Programmes supported by the Fund typically work across sectors reaching particularly vulnerable populations, including rural women, adolescent girls and indigenous communities. 9. Investments of the Fund are yielding promising results in terms of ending violence against women and girls. Recognizing the success of these initiatives, Governments, United Nations agencies, the private sector and civil society organizations are increasingly scaling up and replicating grantees’ projects in order to maximize the effectiveness of their interventions. In 2011, the Ministries of Justice and Health of Chile supported the replication of a manual developed by the local implementing partner of Fund grantee Instituto Promundo, adopting it nationwide to further the Government’s efforts to engage young men in ending 11-63260 3