A/HRC/19/30 E/CN.6/2012/13 to track incidents of acid and other forms of burn violence, identifying the causes, the degree of injury, the region of the attack and the age of the victim. 17. Service delivery to violence survivors living in conflict, post-conflict and unstable situations poses a complex set of challenges, requiring creative interventions. In Sierra Leone, with support from the Fund, the National Commission for Social Action is implementing one of the first-ever reparations initiatives in the country specifically for sexual violence survivors. The project is promoting accountability for gender-specific crimes in conflict and is serving as a model for gender-sensitive post-conflict reparations. In Liberia, ActionAid is enhancing the coordination, at the community and county levels, of the efforts of protection actors in River Gee and Grand Gedeh counties and has been instrumental in encouraging joint support, monitoring and follow-up with respect to cases of violence against women and girls. Securing budgetary and policy commitments for implementation 18. The Fund supports projects that fill critical gaps in the implementation of laws and policies addressing violence against women, ranging from standardized data collection to political advocacy to the development of the capacities of Government officials and other stakeholders charged with the implementation and enforcement of laws. 19. Nearly all grantees of the Fund are working to strengthen the institutional and professional capacities of those tasked with the implementation of laws, policies and action plans to end violence against women. In Suriname, the Ilse Henar Foundation for Women’s Rights, together with the Government, the private sector and trade unions, is piloting a model for addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. This Fund grantee developed a first-of-its-kind code of conduct that is being implemented in 10 companies in the capital region. The response by the private sector has been so favourable that some companies have made it mandatory for all their employees to attend the sexual harassment awareness-raising sessions organized as part of the implementation process. The grantee’s efforts have also created a ripple effect, empowering members of the Surinam Airways trade union to introduce into the union’s collective bargaining document a clause on preventive measures regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. 20. Fund grantees are also working to build the understanding of key Government actors with regard to the links between violence against women and HIV/AIDS as well as their capacity to address those twin pandemics. In the Dominican Republic, for example, Colectiva Mujer y Salud is working in five border provinces to raise public awareness about preventing HIV and gender-based violence and to build the capacity of local authorities managing both issues. By actively participating in the national commission for the review of the HIV/AIDS law, the grantee has also helped to inform the current revision of the law, ensuring that it explicitly acknowledges the connection between violence against women and HIV/AIDS. 21. Other grantees of the Fund are focused on the enforcement of laws that address violence against women through the strengthening of judicial systems and the improvement of access to justice for survivors of violence. The International Association of Women Judges, in partnership with the Zambia Association of Women Judges, has trained more than 80 rural magistrates and 30 judges in Zambia on the rights of women and girls and on how to create victim-friendly courts. The 6 11-63260

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