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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
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