A/HRC/41/3 E/CN.6/2019/7 A. Preventing violence against women and girls 20. Preventing violence against women and girls is a key element of most projects funded by the trust fund. Because early intervention at an age when social attitudes are being formed is especially important for effecting change, the trust fund supports many projects that are aimed at making schools and other educational settings safe places for girls. The fund currently supports eight grantees working to improve curricula or to implement policies, practices or services aimed at preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in 130 target schools. 21. In Kenya, the organization Trócaire has implemented a project focused on adolescent girls and young women in eight informal settlements in Nakuru town to reduce violence against women and girls through empowerment activities, includi ng training in fundamental rights, economic and vocational skills and fostering community-level gender-transformative behavioural change through community engagement and awareness-raising using the “SASA! Faith” methodology. Thanks to this training, 150 adolescent girls and young women, who now have increased levels of economic and personal power, including new self-confidence and increased selfesteem, have embarked on18 income-generating business start-ups. In addition, a total of 83 girls are enrolled in vocational skills training for the job market or selfemployment. The SASA! Faith model has engaged faith communities in dialogue on the underlying causes of violence against women and in large-scale awareness-raising activities through public forums, reaching over 3,500 people. In addition, more than 250 front-line workers from various sectors took part in capacity-building activities to provide effective and high-quality services and implement laws to prevent violence against women and girls. In this regard, 41 cases were ongoing and three convictions for sexual violence had been secured by the end of 2018. 22. The Mother and Child Education Foundation in Turkey has built on a previous project supported by the trust fund, Father Training for Violence -Free Families, to translate improved attitudes into gender-sensitive and non-violent behaviours within families. The first six-month assessment of the project revealed that women had received an increased level of support, both perceived and reported, for thei r rights and a decreased level of domestic violence. During the 47 sessions organized by the Foundation between January and June 2018, 388 mothers shared their experiences of a changing home atmosphere, which they linked to changes in their spouses ’ attitudes. During in-depth interviews, women reported fewer aggressive tendencies in their spouses and more open verbal expression of awareness of, and willingness to change, aggressive behaviours. 23. Early and child marriage was the focus of a project implemen ted in Pakistan by the Sindh Community Foundation. The overall goal was to ensure that girls in 30 villages in three districts of Sindh province were better protected from being forced into early marriage. In the final evaluation, it was found that the pro ject had increased knowledge and shifted attitudes towards the protection of girls from early marriage. The project reached 3,915 primary and secondary beneficiaries, including 10 girls who, having been protected from early marriage, had gone back to schoo l – three of them as a result of timely action taken by police officials trained through the project. B. Improving access to multisectoral services 24. A second priority area of the trust fund is increasing the access of women and girls to essential, safe and adequate multisectoral services. Many applications for funding received by the trust fund include some form of service delivery for survivors, 6/16 18-21716