A/HRC/19/30 E/CN.6/2012/13 regional programmes represented 6, 5 and 2 per cent, respectively, in terms of funds requested. In all regions, most concept notes came from women’s organizations and other non-governmental organizations (86 per cent), followed by governmental organizations (6 per cent) and United Nations country teams (2 per cent). Grants awarded 39. In 2011, the Fund awarded $17.1 million in new grants to 22 initiatives in 34 countries. Africa was awarded the greatest amount of funds (40 per cent), followed by Asia and the Pacific (25 per cent), Latin America and the Caribbean (19 per cent), Arab States (6 per cent) and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (5 per cent). A total of 5 per cent of the Fund’s grants for 2011 were awarded to cross-regional projects. For the first time, organizations in Iraq and South Sudan received funding. The majority of new grantees included women’s organizations and other non-governmental organizations (81 per cent), followed by governmental organizations (14 per cent) and United Nations country teams (5 per cent). Grants distributed in the fifteenth grant-making cycle are expected to reach more than 6 million beneficiaries and approximately 4 million primary beneficiaries and 2 million secondary beneficiaries. Highlights of new grants 40. New grantees continue to work in the thematic and priority areas supported by the Fund, with some grantees partnering with and building on the achievements of past Fund grantees and others charting the road map for new approaches and learning in the field. Examples include the following: (a) Building safe public spaces and work environments for women is a priority of two new grantees. In Peru, the municipal government of Lima, headed by a female mayor for the first time, will work to rid the city of discrimination and violence through effective gender budgeting and consolidated planning to ensure that the city’s approach to gender-based violence is in line with national and international standards and appropriately funded. City health and justice officials will be trained to support survivors of abuse, and male perpetrators will be engaged through transformative training to prevent further violence. The Fair Wear Foundation will establish systems to address workplace violence not only by working with garment factories and their employees in Bangladesh and India, but also by engaging, for the first time, the European companies outsourcing to them; (b) The cross-regional programme “Pop culture with a purpose: global partnership on edutainment media for social change” will scale up two earlier initiatives carried out by grantees supported by the Fund, Breakthrough (India) and Puntos de Encuentro (Nicaragua), and implement them in 12 other countries, tapping into the experience, knowledge and expertise of previous partners and bringing them in as resource organizations for the programme. The project will challenge the idea that violence against women is normal and inevitable, through innovative mass communication with positive and locally specific content; (c) Seven new grantees will constitute a second cohort addressing the intersection of violence against women and HIV/AIDS, implementing vital projects in India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Ukraine. In 2011, the Fund awarded $6.2 million in support of these efforts. While scaling up lessons learned from the previous cohort initiative jointly undertaken by Johnson 12 11-63260