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providing sustained visibility to the issue. The new focus area will also enable the
Fund to form an expanded and vibrant network of partners with experience in fragile
conflict and post-conflict rehabilitation settings that will pool their resources and
talent bases in order to help end violence against women and girls. In addition, the
special focus area will further support the Secretary-General’s “UNiTE” campaign
by targeting one of its five key outcomes: addressing sexual violence in conflict and
post-conflict situations. The Fund will also complement the policy and coordination
work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in
Conflict and United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, by
strengthening existing mechanisms on the ground through the provision of funds to
organizations and institutions working to address this issue. As this new cohort of
grantees begin project implementation in 2012, the Fund will tap into existing
inter-agency networks operating in emergency situations, creating synergies with
United Nations agencies at the field level, including the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations.
43. As part of an ongoing effort to determine where investments are proving to be
most effective, the Fund will continue to extract results from the outcome-mapping
process and the supporting database. In 2012, the Fund will systematically collect
data on the “multiplier effects” of the prevention programmes that it directly
supports, in order to analyse how those efforts lead to results beyond the prevention
of violence against women and girls, that is, how changes in attitudes, norms and
behaviour result in better services for women in terms of both quality and quantity.
In the light of the report’s findings in this area, the Fund will explore ways to
develop a more standardized approach to primary prevention across grantees.
44. In terms of grantees addressing the intersection of violence against women and
HIV/AIDS, the Fund will continue to provide specialized technical assistance to
partners throughout the project implementation period in order to establish standard
outcomes, set baselines and integrate monitoring and evaluation into their
programmes as an integral component. In 2012, a paper will be published on the
lessons learned from the first cohort of grantees working in this area in order to
extract promising practices that have emerged from this cutting-edge learning
initiative. The Fund considers not only the documentation of lessons learned, but
also, and more important, the upscaling of proven approaches and best practices in
addressing these twin pandemics as a funding priority. As the Fund matures, it will
emphasize the discovery of particular models and approaches that are worth scaling
up across its programmes.
45. Given the number of grantees currently using technology ranging from the
Geographic Information System to mobile telephone applications as tools for
preventing violence against women and girls, the Fund will connect those partners
with national and international technology companies in 2012 in order to begin a
conversation about how these local efforts can be upscaled and integrated across
municipalities and districts in the target country.
46. In 2012, the Fund will launch a state-of-the-art online grant management
system in order to capture and track grantees’ results more efficiently and make
them more accessible to a global audience. The system will also allow for a better
flow of information between the Fund secretariat in New York and the focal points
in the subregional offices of UN-Women. In addition, it will allow for more efficient
implementation of the Fund’s monitoring and evaluation plan. The grant
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