A/HRC/43/44/Add.3 12. Paragraph 81 17. It should also be noted that the share of old-age pension recipients within the total number of pensioners in 2018 amounted to 58.3%, disability pension recipients amounted to 30.1%, recipients of survivor pension amounted to 11.6%. Besides, the pension provision covered 13.1% of the population in 2018. 13. Paragraph 92 18. Major water users in Azerbaijan are the industry and agriculture, forestry and fisheries. In 2018, 2.5 billion m3 of water was used by industry; 6.7 billion m3 of water was used by agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector, a big part of which is shared in irrigation1. 14. Paragraph 93 19. According to the information provided by the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, the water resources in the country are assessed to be at the level of 31.6 billion m3 in 2018. 15. Paragraph 98 20. According to agricultural census data for 2015, the share of women in Azerbaijan within the total number of people engaged in agricultural sector was 48.6%. As a result of state programmes and different projects, the number of women entrepreneurs has increased from 4% to 29%. 16. Paragraphs 99-101 21. Since 2011, the United Nations Development Program and the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs (SCFWCA) have been implementing the project “Technical Assistance to Promote Economic and Social Life of Women in Rural and Regional Areas”. The main objective of the project is to increase the economic opportunities and skills of women for their active participation in economic life, entrepreneurial activities and employment. Within the framework of the project, Women Resource Centres were established in 8 regions of the country. Totally, 5500 women benefited from the project, 102 women started the entrepreneurship activities, and 50 women were provided with jobs since 2011. The State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs jointly with the Azerbaijan Microfinance Association conducted trainings on “Financial literacy” and “Start and develop business in the regions” within the framework of the project “Training of women in the regions of Azerbaijan and development of female entrepreneurship”. 17. Paragraph 103 22. Azerbaijan has started the process of accession to the 2011 Istanbul Convention. To ensure improved institutional response capacity, as well as collection, analysis and use of data on domestic violence, the inter-agency Gender Based Violence (GBV) Database was developed by the Government. The SCFWCA acts as the Administrator of the Database. Totally 650 facts were registered in the electronic data bank within the period from October 2017 to the end of 2018. The SCFWCA initiated a two-year project entitled “Combating gender-based violence in Azerbaijan” in close partnership with UNFPA and USAID in 20162017. The main objective of the project was to support the Government of Azerbaijan to develop effective guidance and response mechanisms to combat GBV. The project was implemented through the series of interrelated components on improvement of legal and policy framework, large scale awareness-raising campaigns, provision of trainings for relevant service providers, as well as development of integrated strategies to coordinate multi-sectorial approaches to addressing violence against women. The Government currently develops the National Action Plan on GBV prevention and response, as well as the guidelines for establishment of the inter-agency coordination mechanism. 1 4 https://www.stat.gov.az/source/environment/?lang=en.