A/HRC/44/3 E/CN.6/2020/8 The proposal was based on the success and learning potential of a previous project supported by the trust fund that had focused on the intersection between HIV/AIDS and violence against women in the country. The current project primarily targets sexual and physical violence in the family and builds on the previous pilot project to scale up the provision of essential services, including psychosocial and legal support, HIV counselling and testing, and medical services for the most marginalized and leftbehind women in four informal urban communities in greater Cairo. In the light of the key findings of the earlier project, the organizers of the current project are increasing the emphasis on changing attitudes and behaviours by working with men and boys, and are engaging influential faith and community leaders to promote behavioural change and help to strengthen the institutional capacities of service providers to ensure that services are sustained beyond the lifetime of the project. In the initial phase of the project, 451 women from various groups were reached, including 59 female domestic workers, whose awareness was raised of various means to protect themselves from HIV and the HIV-related services available. The project also worked with 25 women from the target communities who were living with HIV. C. Fostering implementation of law and policy 36. The third priority area of focus for the trust fund is to bring legislation into line with international human rights standards; to implement laws, regulations and protocols to end harmful traditional practices; and to encourage States to fulfil their obligation to exercise due diligence in order to prevent violence, protect survivors and ensure their access to justice. 37. In Solomon Islands, the Regional Rights Resource Team of the Pacific Community is implementing a pilot project aimed at improving acces s to justice for women survivors of violence in the provinces of Guadalcanal and Malaita. The aim of the project is to assist the authorities of Solomon Islands in the implementation of the 2014 Family Protection Act. The Act provides for an integrated res ponse by various government departments, for assistance to survivors of family and domestic violence, for improved access to justice and for redress for survivors of violence against women. The grantee has developed a national training curriculum and accreditation scheme to develop the capacity of selected informal justice mechanisms established in rural communities under the Family Protection Act to deliver quality services. Five capacity-building and monitoring missions at each of the 37 project sites have resulted in an increase in the number of cases reported and in discussions about domestic violence as a harmful practice. A total of 48 authorized justices have been trained. They continue to show a willingness to hold awareness -raising sessions and speak to their communities about their role and about the purpose of the Family Protection Act. 38. In Kosovo, 10 Medica Kosova is using a small grant from the trust fund to implement a project whose aim is to protect the legal rights, including property rights, of women who have experienced gender-based violence during and after the armed conflict, and to improve institutional responses to gender-based violence. Medica Kosova is also providing monitoring and advocacy training for women ’s organizations and is working with those organizations to identify shortcomings in the implementation of the national strategy against domestic violence. Thus far, the project has assisted 17 survivors of gender-based violence in obtaining legal support and starting the process of registering their properties. Another nine women, who have obtained official status as survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, have __________________ 10 19-21597 References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999). 11/15