A/HRC/23/17 E/CN.6/2013/8 vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse. The centre is creating a community safety network for children by training guardians, teachers, police officers and medical professionals on how to better protect this group and identify the physical and mental trauma experienced by abused children who have been left behind. As a result of the programme, government departments cooperating in the pilot areas have increased their awareness of the importance of protecting left-behind girls and have shown interest in integrating components of the intervention into their routine work. For example, until 2012, local education policy in Suizhou City did not include safety and sex education in the education and training plan for teachers and students. Through the efforts of the centre, 1,675 local primary and junior high school students received critical sexual education and self-protection training, and sexuality and safety education was included in the annual training plan for teachers by the Suizhou Education Bureau for the first time. In addition, three resource centres were established in 2012 as safe spaces for guardians and left-behind children to share information and experiences, to learn and to help each other. The centre and its partners have taken the first crucial steps to establish measures for preventing violence against girls in the context of communities affected by migration. In doing so, the centre has demonstrated how a strategic, small-scale investment can have an important multiplier effect. 15. In Zambia, Equality Now is empowering adolescent girls to prevent, identify and report sexual violence through the creation of safe spaces for girls where they can build their protective assets. The programme has reached over 1,800 girls in four schools. Knowing that engaging boys is critical to any prevention effort, the programme reached 1,500 school-age boys with messages aimed at challenging stereotypes that condone sexual violence against girls, thus eroding the discriminatory attitudes and behaviours that have prevented them from becoming champions of girls’ rights. The attitude change generated by the programme became evident through the commitment of over 600 boys in four schools to become agents of change to address sexual violence against girls, with an emphasis on becoming the next generation of partners in the fight against violence. 16. Recognizing the important role that men and boys can play in promoting zero tolerance of violence, the Trust Fund has invested approximately $6.3 million in programmes that specifically engage men and boys as agents of change. 17. Another grantee working to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and promoting gender equality is the Brazilian organization Instituto Promundo. With support from the Trust Fund, the institute implemented a multicountry programme in Brazil, Chile, India and Rwanda, that ended in 2012. The programme sought to test and evaluate an array of interventions that engage young and adult men in the prevention of gender-based violence, including in the fields of sport, education, health and the workplace. The programme was subject to an impact evaluation in 2012 that demonstrated statistically significant changes both in attitudes towards violence against women and in the self-reported decrease in the use of violence against female partners. Qualitative results further affirmed decreased support for attitudes that encourage men’s use of intimate partner violence. In India, the programme generated a decline in self-reported perpetration of intimate partner violence among participants. In Jaunpur, for example, there was a decrease of self-reported use of physical violence against women over the course of three months, from 19 per cent at the baseline to 9 per cent at the end-line survey. The evaluation also showed an increase in knowledge of laws pertaining to violence 12-64357 5