A/HRC/23/17 E/CN.6/2013/8 grantees to gain a global overview of evidence-informed best practices on programming. It brought the partners together to gain a fuller understanding of their programmes and to ascertain how their evidence-informed approaches can be strengthened. V. Building new partnerships, ownership and expanded commitment 35. Mobilizing broad-based participation of both established and new actors in the field of eliminating violence against women is a key pillar of the strategic plan of the Trust Fund for 2010-2015. The Trust Fund is actively contributing to the United Nations “Delivering as one” initiative, by bringing the system together and ensuring coordination at the operational, decision-making and programme implementation stages. At the operational and programme management levels, the primary vehicle for the participation of the United Nations system comprises the 14 local inter-agency programme advisory committees and the Global Programme Advisory Committee of the Trust Fund. The Global Programme Advisory Committee advises the Trust Fund on strategic priorities and grant-making issues. The subregional inter-agency programme advisory committees ensure synergies with existing United Nations efforts towards the elimination of violence against women and national priorities. The decentralized and broadly participatory structure ensures that funding allocations conform to the capacities and needs of diverse countries and regions, thereby promoting the overall relevance of the Trust Fund to national priorities and contexts. In its grant-making cycle for 2012, the Trust Fund recorded the participation of 105 individuals and 17 organizations of the United Nations system 6 throughout the entire process, which illustrates the commitment of the entire United Nations system to the work and mission of the Trust Fund, and demonstrates the ability of the Fund to bring the system together in an open, transparent and participatory manner. Equally, it highlights the capacity to generate a platform for open discussion on strategies for the elimination of violence against women worldwide. __________________ 6 12 In 2012, members of the programme advisory committees at the global and subregional levels included: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); the International Labour Organization (ILO); the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS); the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women); the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA); the World Health Organization (WHO); the World Food Programme (WFP); the World Bank; United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict; and the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Programme advisory committees also comprised of leading representatives of non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental organizations and other experts at the global and field levels, including representatives from the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership, Equality Now, the Open Society Institute, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and others. 12-64357