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with vital information on child sexual abuse, incest and implications in terms of
HIV. In 2011, the grantee’s intervention model and policy recommendations were
adopted at the national level by the Ministry of the People and Social Development
as part of the Government’s efforts to revise and improve its policies on child sexual
abuse and incest.
13. Grantees of the Fund in such countries as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Peru
are using strategies to empower women and girls facing multiple and intersecting
forms of discrimination, implementing programmes that holistically address the
entrenched inequalities that contribute to violence. In Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Rights for All is building the capacity of Roma women to gain access to justice and
influence decision-making processes by delivering paralegal support to nearly 100
survivors of violence and nurturing a cadre of 12 Roma women leaders. This Fund
grantee has helped to bring about, for the first time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a
dialogue with State institutions on the status of Roma women in society. In Peru,
Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales Calandria is training indigenous and
Afro-descendant young people to serve as leaders in an anti-violence movement,
empowering them to directly engage local and regional governments in
implementing an action plan for the rights of adolescents in the city of Piura. This
grantee has engaged nearly 90 public officials in indigenous regions in its efforts,
ensuring that the unique intercultural model of violence prevention that it
established is systematically integrated at the local level, where it will have the most
impact on the everyday lives of community members.
Expanding access to support services for survivors
14. The Fund supports coordinated, holistic and multisectoral responses that
address the interrelated needs of survivors of violence, including health,
psychosocial support, legal representation, employment and training opportunities.
15. In all regions, the Fund supports projects that are focused on empowering and
building the protective assets of adolescent girls through the provision of vital
services. In Tajikistan, the Child Rights Centre is filling a critical gap in support
services for girls between the ages of 10 and 18 who have been affected by, or are at
risk of, sexual exploitation, early marriage and trafficking. In an effort to strengthen
the capacity of the existing child protection system, the grantee has established a
referral network of 10 regional non-governmental organizations in local districts
across Tajikistan. In only three months, more than 330 girls were provided with
assistance, demonstrating a dramatic increase in service delivery to this target
group. In Bolivia, Asociación Cuna is piloting a unique 24-hour mobile programme
of violence prevention, intervention, reintegration and empowerment services for
adolescent girls living on the streets in the country’s most crime-ridden cities.
Working as part of a network of 16 Government and non-governmental institutions
in the city of El Alto advocating for the rights of at-risk girls, this grantee has
drafted and submitted to the Bolivian legislature a number of bills aimed at
preventing violence against this vulnerable population.
16. Through a grant from the Fund, Acid Survivors Trust International is
implementing a comprehensive strategy to end acid burn violence against women in
Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda. In order to improve access to rehabilitative services
for survivors, local implementing partners have developed a unique central database
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