A/HRC/44/3 E/CN.6/2020/8 A. Preventing violence against women and girls 21. Preventing violence against women and girls is a key element of most projects supported by the trust fund. Changing attitudes and behaviours and challenging the entrenched stereotypes about gender roles that underpin violence against women and girls are major components of this strand of grantees’ work. Projects are being implemented to bring about attitudinal change in communities, addressing men and boys as well as women and girls, communities and service providers, and empowering women and girls. 22. A project in Cambodia is being implemented by ADD International in partnership with local organizations to empower disabled women ’s networks and strengthen their capacity to lead primary prevention efforts in six districts in which domestic violence is reported to be high. The target of the project is violence committed by relatives and caregivers against women and girls with disabilities. The aim of the project is to strengthen the capacity of women-led organizations that work for people with disabilities so that they may more effectively support women and girls through prevention interventions. Also under that programme, women and girls with disabilities will be trained to become volunteer role models and a methodology will be developed to analyse the incidence and causes of gender-based violence. The methodology will be disseminated in Cambodia and internationally. 23. In Turkey, the Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV) has implemented a second-generation trust fund grant 9 to run a community-based project that is focused on the role of fatherhood as an entry point to changing behaviours that give rise to violence against women and girls. ACEV instituted an innovative 10 -week father support programme to transform gender-normative attitudes in the home. A final external evaluation showed that, following the trainings, 43 per cent of fathers took on more responsibility in child development and household duties and applied non-violent communication methods. It was also found that the number of incidents of physical violence towards women and children decreased after fathers had attended the training. The project reached 6,045 fathers through 471 father support programme groups in five provinces in Turkey. The project was also aimed at creating sustainable long-term change in Turkish society through three advocacy campaigns that promoted gender equality in the home with a view to preventing violence. The campaigns reached more than 2 million people. In addition, 150 graduates of the programme created, together with ACEV, nine new local fatherhood groups to extend the programme’s reach and create a nationwide network of men who stand for gender equality. 24. Projects aimed at making schools and other educational settings safe places for girls are an important part of the trust fund’s preventive focus. In the state of Yucatán, Mexico, the grantee Ciencia Social Alternativa is implementing a project to reduce the incidence of violence against girls living with disabilities. The aim of the project to ensure that public officials and education and health professionals are better equipped both to prevent violence and to provide support to girls who experience violence. Also under the project, workshops are held to teach girls with disabilities about their rights and about existing institutions that may provide them with support, should they ever experience violence of one form or another. In 2019, as part of the project, three seminars were held on the human rights of people with disabilities. Among the attendees were public officials, health professionals, teachers, legal officers and other officials, who drafted 72 proposals for courses of action to further the rights of girls with disabilities. Public officials who took part said that the seminars had made them more aware of the role they should play in implementing __________________ 9 19-21597 Second-generation trust fund grants are part of the “invitation only” funding window. 7/15