A/HRC/32/3 E/CN.6/2016/8 grantee organizations, partner organizations, primary and secondary bene ficiaries and key stakeholders. A. Prevention: focus on young people 29. Data on violence against young and adolescent girls, at the national level, remain scarce. However, a recent study carried out by the United Nations Children ’s Fund in 42 countries found that the proportion of adolescent girls who reported experiencing some form of physical violence between the ages of 15 and 19 ranged from 4 per cent in Kazakhstan to more than 50 per cent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. In countries where comparable data are available, up to 12 per cent of girls aged 15 to 19 reported incidents of sexual violence during the previous year. 5 30. A core component of many Trust Fund grantee initiatives is raising awareness about violence among teenagers and young people, who are at a critical stage in life when values and norms about gender equality are instilled. The Trust Fund is currently investing more than $12 million to support 20 grantees in addressing violence against young and adolescent girls. 31. An initiative by Society Without Violence, in Armenia, led to the formal adoption of a module on gender and gender-based violence by the Ministry of Education and Science and its integration into professional development classes for teachers. In addition, in 2015, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Women, of which Society Without Violence is a co-founder, received the Woman of Courage Award at the annual Universal Rights Award Ceremony, organized by the United Nations office in Armenia, the office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Yerevan, the Embassy of the United States of America, the delegation of the European Union to Armenia, the Embassy of the United Kingdom and the office of the Council of Europe in Yerevan. The award recognized, in particular, the courageous advocacy work of Hasmik Khachatryan, a survivor of domestic violence, for the protection of women’s rights and assistance to survivors of domestic violence in Armenia. 32. A project by Plan Viet Nam is working to address gender-based violence in and around schools, which is one of the main barriers to girls ’ empowerment and gender equality. A research-based model piloted in 20 schools across Hanoi reached approximately 30,000 adolescent girls and boys aged 11 to 18. Following the success of the pilot project, the Hanoi Department of Education has undertaken to replicate the initiative across 766 schools in the city, potentially reaching more than 500,000 adolescents. 33. Grassroot Soccer is implementing a girl-centred project in five subdistricts in South Africa, a country with one of the world’s highest rates of violence against girls aged between 12 and 17. In coordination with Thuthuzela one-stop care centres and civil society partners, it is expanding its innovative SKILLZ Plus sports -based intervention to foster girls’ empowerment. The South African Department of Basic Education has signed a memorandum of understanding with Grassroot Soccer __________________ 5 8/17 UNICEF, Hidden in Plain Sight: a statistical analysis of violence against child ren, September 2014. The report found that only 8 per cent of children worldwide live in countries that prohibit corporal punishment in all settings (see pp. 110 -111). 15-22220