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how the Fund could further best practices in the field. This was the first time that
the outcome-mapping methodology had been used specifically to analyse outcomes
related to violence against women and girls. According to the study, the Fund’s
influence was not heavily concentrated in a few areas, but spread out across its
objectives and priorities, as well as across regions. The study found that the Fund
was supporting the right types of grants and approaches to addressing violence
against women and girls. The outcomes suggest that the Fund should continue to
support organizations and Governments at the local, provincial and national levels
with methods, strategies and models that are innovative as well as those that are
known to work. The report was made publicly available late in 2011. 5
29. In an effort to widen the platform of public engagement on violence against
women, the Fund invested in a series of communications products, social media and
short films that increased the visibility of grantee programming in a number of
critical areas. In 2011, the Fund produced video testimonials of women and
community members benefiting from grantee interventions in Cambodia, Guatemala
and Liberia. The videos will constitute an important addition to the Fund’s library of
multimedia products that tell the stories of women and girl survivors of violence,
and that profile champions taking action against those human rights violations. The
compelling short videos, photo library and narrative stories have proved to be
significant advocacy, awareness-raising and resource mobilization tools for the
Fund.
V. Building new partnerships, ownership and
expanded commitment
30. The Fund is founded on United Nations partnerships and is working to
increase ownership of the Fund across the United Nations system. A key platform
for enhancing these synergies is the inter-agency Programme Advisory Committee,
comprising United Nations agencies at the global and subregional levels. This entity
advises the Fund on strategic decisions and grant-making issues. In particular, the
subregional inter-agency programme advisory committees permit the establishment
of links to existing United Nations efforts and national priorities. This decentralized
and broadly participatory structure ensures that funding allocations closely match
the capacities and needs of diverse countries and regions, thereby promoting the
overall relevance of the Fund to national priorities and context.
31. In 2011, participating United Nations agencies at the global and subregional
levels included the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean, the International Labour Organization, the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Global
Coalition on Women and AIDS of the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS, UN-Women, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme, the
World Health Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, United Nations
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The complete Outcome Mapping Report is available from http://www.unwomen.org/
publications/mapping-of-grantees-outcomes-the-united-trust-fund-to-end-violence-againstwomen-2006-to-mid-2011/.
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