A/HRC/41/3 E/CN.6/2019/7 London, which was co-hosted by the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the International Disability Alliance and the Government of Kenya. 35. Among the new projects awarded grants in 2018 for this area of work is one implemented in Kenya by Women Challenged to Challenge. This focuses on three ethnically diverse locations to reduce violence against women and girls with disabilities and to increase the conviction rate for abusers. The grantee is working with service providers and front-line responders to improve attitudes, protection mechanisms and multisectoral services. It is also working closely with two partners: Advantage Africa, a United Kingdom-based non-governmental organization with extensive experience in community development in East Africa, and the Kibwezi Disabled Persons’ Organisation. The project engages women in empowerment activities, supports the capacity of service providers and develops and delivers community theatre programmes through the community drama group, Twaweza, which has experience in creating and performing plays about violence against women in community settings. 36. A project implemented by the Stars of Hope Society, the only association in the State of Palestine that is run by and for women with disabilities, is aimed at improving the access of women and girls with disabilities in the West Bank and Gaza to multisectoral services. 37. Action on Disability and Development is implementing a project in six provinces to build on and expand the work of the Cambodian Women ’s Crisis Centre, a current trust fund grantee, with girls and women wi th disabilities who have either survived or are at risk of violence in the family, highlighting the important role played by the trust fund in enabling grantees to learn from one another ’s good practice. Working in partnership with local women’s and disabled person’s organizations, the grantee aims to increase the capacity of disabled women’s networks to lead primary prevention efforts. These include adapting the “SASA! Faith” community mobilization methodology, using positive role models to contribute to c hanging social norms and carrying out research to better understand intersectional approaches to primary prevention. 38. Several of the grants awarded in the new cycle are funded under the trust fund ’s by invitation only window. Based on the quality of the results in the first round of funding, this type of grant is eligible to bypass the usual three -year moratorium and apply for a second grant. First-round project results must show potential for being enhanced or replicated, or demonstrate a significant impact that can be built on with the second grant. There are now nine grantees in this cohort; the two highlighted below focus on the needs of women and girls with disabilities. 39. In a final evaluation of a project implemented in Zimbabwe by Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe, it was found that the organization had made significant changes to the lives of girls and women with disabilities. A total of 738 girls and women with disabilities who are survivors of gender-based violence received practical assistance and expert support services. The second project builds on these achievements and focuses on six rural and underserved districts with high rates of poverty, HIV/AIDS and sexual violence against girls and women with disabilities. The project replicates existing strategies and introduces a new aspect, which involves working with the Ministry of Health and Child Care to standardize and decentralize psychiatric assessment, when needed. This change is a direct result of lessons learned in the first project, through which it was found that the legal requirement to travel to Harare for psychiatric assessment was a significant barrier to justice. The grantee has established strong partnerships with 35 disabled people ’s organizations and other community groups across the country and is working with the Government’s victim-friendly system and in collaboration with the joint initiative of 10/16 18-21716