A/HRC/10/43 E/CN.6/2009/10 the judiciary in uniformly interpreting and upholding the 2005 Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act. The National Judicial Academy, India’s premier judicial training institute, was closely involved in preparing the manual, along with high court judges with established track records in rendering judgments under the new law. In Bhutan, a United Nations Trust Fund-supported initiative followed up recommendations from the 2006 national consultations on women and child-friendly judicial procedures. The National Commission for Women and Children collaborated with the police and the Royal Court of Justice to institute in camera trials and investigations, in order to protect the privacy of survivors and encourage them to report crimes. Police and judges from 20 districts have undergone training on gender equality and ending violence against women. Central Government officials have now made ending violence against women a critical area for action in their tenth five-year plan; (b) Holistic service models support the implementation of laws by responding to the multiple needs of women survivors of violence. In Albania, Refleksione Association, supported by the United Nations Trust Fund, has convened local authorities, the police and judicial officials in five municipalities to create local councils to address domestic violence. These are piloting a community-based integrated referral model, ensuring a multisectoral response in line with the national law against domestic violence. Local facilitators, supported by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, are engaged in public outreach, partnership-building, and the development of local capacities to monitor the issuance of protection orders and provide a spectrum of social, health and legal services. The Prime Minister has announced a comprehensive national public awareness-raising campaign that will further boost the project’s impact and visibility; (c) Standardized data collection provides the basis for policy and programme development and enables monitoring of progress towards implementing national commitments to ending violence against women. A United Nations Trust Fund initiative in Algeria is supporting the Information and Documentation Centre on Women’s and Children’s Rights to bring together six institutions in different localities to establish a common information system on violence against women. The system is helping to shape a national initiative by the ministry in charge of the family and women’s condition. In the spirit of South-South cooperation, a United Nations Trust Fund-supported initiative in Southern Africa has drawn on Latin American experiences to develop indicators on violence against women. Gender Links is working with local partners in six countries and the Southern African Development Community to devise a composite index of targets and indicators for measuring violence against women in the region. The South African Police Service has agreed, as part of a pilot study on baseline data, to share statistics that were previously not available. In the Colombian municipality of Soacha, United Nations Trust Fund-assisted activities by Corporación Centro de Apoyo Popular have mapped high-risk areas for sexual and street violence against women. Advocates used this information to push successfully for changes in the new municipal development plan. These include the creation of a police station specifically for family issues and gender-sensitization training for public employees, particularly to increase police capacities to use a gender perspective in assessing the risks of violence. Women’s groups are now monitoring public planning and budgeting sessions to ensure these commitments are fulfilled; 4 08-66140