A/HRC/10/43 E/CN.6/2009/10 of ending violence against women and girls, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a reality. Programming of UNIFEM from the multi-year funding framework, 2004-2007, to the strategic plan, 2008-2011 31. In addition to administering the Trust Fund on behalf of the United Nations system, UNIFEM continues to invest in advocacy efforts, brokering partnerships, inter-agency collaboration and pioneering approaches to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls. These efforts are supported through core and cost-sharing funds secured by UNIFEM. Building on its partnerships and programming experience under the multi-year funding framework 2004-2007 and seizing on the unprecedented historic momentum exemplified at international and national levels to end violence against women and girls, UNIFEM has developed a strategy on the theme “A life free of violence: unleashing the power of women’s empowerment and gender equality,” in line with its strategic plan 2008-2011, which elaborates the institutional direction and priority areas to accelerate progress towards the implementation and upscaling challenge. 32. The strategy outlines a deepening of the ongoing work of UNIFEM in advocacy and awareness-raising; policy and legal reform; addressing the linkages between violence against women and HIV and AIDS; and developing capacities to increase access to services and justice for survivors. UNIFEM has also identified emerging areas for intensified future programming, such as incorporating the issue of violence against women and girls into leading policy and funding frameworks; aligning informal and formal justice systems with international human rights standards; addressing sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations; and developing targeted prevention approaches, especially with key groups, such as men and adolescents. Programming for effective laws and policies on violence against women and girls, including adequate budget allocations for implementation 33. UNIFEM has continued to support the development, reform, adoption and implementation of legislation and policies to address domestic violence, sexual assault and rape, and harmful practices, among other forms of violence against women at global, regional and national levels. For example, in Fiji and Vanuatu, UNIFEM supported the regional rights training team and the United Nations Development Programme in advocating for the passage of sexual and gender-based violence bills. In Thailand, UNIFEM provided technical inputs to the amended Penal Code, which now criminalizes marital rape, and has given legislative reform support to the Alliance on the Elimination of Violence against Women in Pakistan. At the regional level, the sustained collaboration of UNIFEM with the Southern African Development Community Gender Unit and with the NGO Alliance contributed to the adoption of the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Gender and Development. In South-East Asia, UNIFEM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam and the National Committee for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women convened a workshop funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and the secretariat of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for representatives of 10 member States, Japan and Timor-Leste on domestic violence legislation reform and implementation. In the Great Lakes region, UNIFEM supported the Protocol on 08-66140 13