A/HRC/30/33 17. The combined efforts of the American Bar Association, Avocats sans frontières, UNJHRO, Cordaid, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Center for Transitional Justice, UN-Women, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), Physicians for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Track Impunity Always (Trial), supported by a number of Member States, enabled 89 itinerant hearings to be organized by military and civil courts in the provinces of Bas Congo, Equateur, Kasaï-oriental, Katanga, North Kivu, Orientale, South Kivu and Kinshasa between 2008 and 2014. The advocacy efforts of the international community with respect to combating impunity for sexual violence were reinforced by the mandates of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and the Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict. 18. In 2013, UNJHRO provided legal assistance free of charge to 1,507 victims of sexual violence in 12 legal clinics and 25 legal aid centre s (throughout the country apart from Orientale province), with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Belgium, Brazil and UK Aid. 19. According to figures from MONUSCO, there was a gradual increase in the number of judgements issued with respect to sexual violence in comparison with the total number of judgements issued by national courts between 2009 and 2014: from 14 per cent (2009/2010), to 17 per cent (2010/2011), 22 per cent (2011/2012), 25 per cent (2012/2013) and 23 per cent (2013/2014). 20. During the period in question, around 33,057 victims 3 of sexual violence benefited from holistic care comprising legal, medical, psychosocial and social and economic assistance provided by UNJHRO, UN-Women, OSISA, UNFPA and UNICEF, often through local NGOs. In 2010, following work by the Panel on Remedies and Reparations for Victims of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNJHRO and UNFPA provided joint social and eco nomic assistance to 30 women who were victims of sexual violence in Songo -Mboyo (Equateur province). At their request, they were given a boat for transporting fish so that they could sell their merchandise, together with training in managing it. Thanks to the advocacy of the international community, in 2014 for the first time, the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo granted reparations to 30 victims from Songo Mboyo. 4 2. Strengthening the administration of justice 21. In 2006, the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper diagnosed the judicial system as being ineffective and resulting in individuals resorting to extrajudicial conflict resolution procedures, court decisions not being enforced and people harbouring a deep mistrust in the justice system. 22. In his report of 2008 on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural, including the right to development (A/HRC/8/4/Add.2), the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers noted that there was no judicial training college, nor any adequate training for judges, which meant that their judgements were unreliable. He recommended __________________ 3 4 8/19 Data gathered from MONUSCO performance reports from 2009 to 2014. In December 2003, FARDC soldiers committed mass rapes of women and girls in Songo -Mboyo. The final rulings on appeal were handed down in 2007 by the military tribunal in the garrison of Mbandaka sitting in itinerant hearing at Songo-Mboyo. GE.15-14279