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local mentors are using the knowledge gained through training and campaigns to bring
about attitudinal change and engagement among community members, including men
and boys. Some 2,812 women have benefited directly from the project, and women
from the target communities have indicated increased levels of confidence and self esteem and shown a high level of commitment to disseminating the information they
have received to other villages. Respondents from 103 ethnic minority tribal
communities and participants at a national workshop displayed a deeper
understanding of violence against women and girls and the possibilities for effective
action to reduce it as a result of their participation in the Pragya project.
V. Results and evidence
47. In 2018, the trust fund published a technical annex to its Annual Report of 2017,
providing an update on the results framework of its strategic plan, 2015 –2020. As the
first such report to be produced by the trust fund in it s 20-year history, it involved the
development of indicators, methods and systems to collect data, including input from,
and in consultation with, more than 70 grantee organizations. As a result , the
framework has been simplified to include three tiers of result types in order to better
reflect which results can be attributed to the secretariat of the trust fund and which
are achieved by the organizations themselves through the trust fund grant. The
number of indicators was reduced from 63 to 48, in respons e to a thorough review
and in consultation with grantee organizations, to ensure that the results selected were
the most relevant and focused. 8
48. A mid-term review of the current trust fund’s strategic plan was initiated in
2018, and the report is scheduled to be issued in early 2019. The review seeks to
assess progress against the trust fund’s strategic plan, 2015–2020, and to gather
evidence about specific achievements that demonstrate how these results contribute
towards the trust fund’s strategic direction for this period. The evaluators used both
qualitative and quantitative methods to review the current strategic plan, including a
documentation review, key informant interviews and an online questionnaire for
grantees. The aim is to use the evidence and recommendations to inform any
adjustments needed to the current strategic plan, as well as the conceptualization of
the new strategic plan, 2015–2020.
49. The review included an anonymous survey of organizations funded by the trust
fund since 2015 to assess satisfaction with its support, including the training provided.
A total of 101 individuals from a portfolio of more than 100 organizations targeted
responded to the survey. Early results show that 71 per cent of respondents agreed or
strongly agreed that they had used what they learned in other projects (13 per cent
said that it was too early to say, because projects had just started) and 84 per cent
believed that, the visibility of their organizations had increased as a result of the
partnership with the trust fund.
50. The evidence hub, one of the pillars of the current strategic plan, took a step
forward in 2018 with the creation of a new grants evaluations library on the trust
fund’s public website. The information shared is part of a larger endeavo ur to build
an evidence and learning hub by 2020 that can catalyse and harness the knowledge
and lessons learned through the work of grantees. Thus far, 40 evaluations have been
posted to the trust fund website. In the future, all satisfactory, high -quality project
evaluations will be uploaded onto the website, and it is planned to disseminate the
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United Nations, UN-Women, “United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
Annual Report 2017: Generating Sustainability” (2018).
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