A/HRC/38/3 E/CN.6/2018/9 could offer leadership and guidance to the peer groups to which they belong. These women leaders are regularly convening meetings, discussing issues around violence against women and solutions to engage the 2,757 members of the women ’s groups. The monitoring visit clearly indicated the scope in areas of convergence where the work of Pragya and the trust fund can reinforce each other, for example in obtaining access to relevant State machineries and using learnings from the project to inform future initiatives. IV. Strategy-led results 35. The trust fund continues to channel its grant-giving in support of the key objectives set out in its strategic plan, 2015–2020, namely: supporting work on primary prevention of violence against women and girls; increasing and improving support services for survivors of violence; and strengthening the implementation of national laws, policies and action plans. The following sets out some of the key achievements and areas of progress by trust fund grantees in pursuit of the overarching aims. 36. In 2017, several projects supported by the trust fund were aimed at ensuring that national laws were enacted in line with international law and standards and that the guarantees promised were delivered in reality for women and girls. In Nepal, for example, grantee Restless Development Nepal, in partnership with local non-governmental organizations, implemented a project to abolish the harmful traditional practice of Chhaupadi, which involves isolating menstruating women and girls, thereby putting them at risk of other abuses. The practice has been banned by the Supreme Court and in August 2017 was made a criminal offence, with Restless Development Nepal among the organizations that were instrumental in getting the new law passed. More recently, the grantee has focused on institutional development among civil society organizations and capacity-building to implement the legislation and ultimately end Chhaupadi. 37. The project used youth-led peer-to-peer education to address such sensitive issues as sexual and reproductive health, as well as disseminating information on laws and policies. Youth group members have also taken initiatives to spread the message of “Six Sa (health, safety, hygiene, education, nutrition and support) ” in the community. A mid-term review showed that all the women and girls who responded to a survey by Restless Development Nepal reported that they had attended school or work regularly during menstruation in the previous three months. This indicated an important change from the baseline survey, when almost 7 per cent of respondents reported skipping class during menstruation. In addition, 11,180 young women and girls gained knowledge about Chhaupadi, gender-based violence and other forms of discrimination through school sessions, door-to-door visits and awareness-raising sessions. 38. In Tunisia, Fondation CIDEAL, a development organization, is working to make the commitment to gender equality, including the elimination of violence against women, enshrined in the 2014 Constitution a reality. The trust fund-supported project is working to improve access to justice, health care and other vital services in the governorate of Kef, including through the Manara Centre, which is the only centre offering multisectoral services to women survivors of domestic violence in the northwest of the country. The Centre’s legal department assists women in legal actions relating to violence, divorce, maintenance payments, childcare and housing subsidies. 10/16 17-22602