A/HRC/10/43 E/CN.6/2009/10 the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence Against Women and Children and, at the global level engaged in avid advocacy efforts that contributed to the adoption of Security Council resolution 1820 (2008), which recognizes sexual violence in conflict as a security issue. 34. Developing workable policies and programmes depends on reliable data, information and knowledge. UNIFEM, in cooperation with Governments, civil society and other partners, works to strengthen qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. In Rwanda, UNIFEM, along with the National University, developed baseline data on sexual and gender-based violence, and in Timor-Leste, mapped sexual and gender-based violence incidences, services and access to justice in two districts with the National Statistics Office. In Burundi, UNIFEM collaborated with UNDP, UNESCO and UNICEF to conduct training for civil society organizations and police on statistics and data collection. UNIFEM supported the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information in Mexico to produce a full classification and analysis by State of crimes against women. In collaboration with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), UNIFEM conducted a gender analysis of the studies on sexual violence against the girl child, undertaken by UNICEF, ESCAP and End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, in seven Pacific countries and commissioned baseline surveys of cross-border traders in different African subregions to obtain initial data on violence experienced by women traders. 35. Integrating the issue of violence against women into national development and funding frameworks and strengthening national action plans on violence against women and girls, in particular, can serve as valuable ways of setting in place the institutional, technical and financial resources required for effective coordinated responses. UNIFEM has supported those processes in a number of countries, for example, with its contribution to the development of a national strategy and plan on gender-based violence in Afghanistan. In Georgia, UNIFEM supported national partners to mainstream gender in an economic recovery and poverty reduction paper, which, as adopted in the political statement of the Parliament, contains a commitment to reduce harmful practices against women, including family violence. UNIFEM regional efforts have included the convening of a high-level regional consultation towards the creation of the first regional action plan to eradicate sexual violence and end impunity in the Great Lakes region in cooperation with UNICEF, OHCHR, UNFPA and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In West Africa, a UNIFEM-supported workshop with Christian and Muslim religious leaders resulted in the adoption of an action plan that includes tackling violence against women. 36. Implementation of laws and policies requires adequate resource allocation by Government. Through gender-responsive budgeting programme efforts of UNIFEM in South-Eastern Europe, increases to the 2008 regional and municipal budgets of Bosnia and Herzegovina were made for civil society-run domestic violence shelters with ensured and sustained co-financing of shelter operations by amendments to the domestic violence law. In Bolivia, UNIFEM-supported advocacy by the Instituto de Formación Femenina Integral led to municipal budget guidelines that mandate resource allocations to programmes that promote gender equality and provide services for women survivors of violence. 14 08-66140