A/HRC/10/43 E/CN.6/2009/10 (d) Partnerships and political will extend the reach and increase the sustainability of United Nations Trust Fund grants, offering critical support for immediate actions to end violence against women and girls, while fostering the longer-term transformation of discriminatory attitudes and practices. Since Rozrada and the Kiev School of Equality, United Nations Trust Fund grantees in Ukraine, successfully advocated for improvements in laws to eliminate intra-family violence, 2,000 central and local service providers have been trained on issues such as identifying women survivors of violence and providing psychological support. The initiative has helped broker collaboration among the Ministry of Family, Youth and Sport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, service providers and non-governmental organizations to coordinate anti-violence efforts and build on the sharing of joint resources. In Cameroon, the United Nations Trust Fund has supported an initiative by the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy that reached an agreement with the General Delegation for National Security to create separate police units for investigating cases of violence against women. The initiative has also created three networks comprised of journalists, women leaders and traditional authorities to address and raise awareness on violence against women. The latter has already proved successful in reducing harmful practices such as widowhood rites, as reported by project beneficiaries; (e) In Puntland State, Somalia, where sustained conflict has fanned violence against women and other human rights violations, public recognition of the severity of the problems has been low. With United Nations Trust Fund support, the Ministry of Women, Development and Family Affairs has been equipped with new capacities to collect data and monitor violence against women. It has produced information that prompted the President of the Puntland State to call explicitly for greater rigour from security forces in upholding existing laws, request parliamentarians to consider drafting stronger legislation and place ending violence against women on the Cabinet agenda. Through its network of sub-offices, the Ministry is also reaching out to religious and community leaders, police officers and community organizations to raise awareness and build consensus that all parts of society must assume responsibility for ending violence against women. Senior religious leaders are coming together to determine how customary laws can be aligned with international human rights norms. Clan elders have agreed to discuss their role in ending violence against women as part of national reconciliation talks. The Ministry has formulated a national plan of action to guide future steps, including the adoption of standard operating procedures to be applied by all individuals and groups involved in responding to and preventing violence against women. 11. Grantees under the special window to address the intersection of violence against women and HIV and AIDS are providing the following targeted services and empowerment to women who face those twin pandemics: (a) In the Russian Federation, the United Nations Trust Fund has supported Doctors to Children to survey gaps in the system of assistance to HIV-positive women who are victims of violence, especially those who are pregnant or have young children. Representatives from the departments for social protection, health and internal affairs of the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg subsequently convened to develop an intersectoral protocol for regulating services to women victims of violence and create an interdisciplinary training programme for staff. An intersectoral team is now piloting service provision under the protocol, from early identification procedures to referrals; 08-66140 5