A/HRC/13/71 E/CN.6/2010/8 40. Integrating responses to violence against women within national and regional development and funding frameworks is an especially strategic and emerging area that UNIFEM promotes. In this regard, it has supported technical inputs to strengthen commitments to addressing violence against women set out in the Cape Verde National Development Plan and in Egypt’s National Socio-Economic Development Plan. Moreover, UNIFEM technical contributions and the Fund’s long-standing partnership with the secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) facilitated the inclusion of gender-responsive targets and indicators on reducing violence against women in the Community’s work programme for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. 41. Securing resources for the implementation of laws and policies is a critical and often neglected area of work to end violence against women. In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, building on the successes of previous gender-responsive budgeting efforts, UNIFEM, UNDP and UNFPA, in collaboration, contributed to the issuance of guidelines by the National Budget Office instructing all municipalities and regions to allocate funds for the operation of local units charged with monitoring the enforcement of laws concerning gender equality and violence against women. In Burundi, advocacy on gender-responsive budgeting directed at the Ministry of Finance contributed to the inclusion in the 2009 national budget of a specific line concerning violence against women. 42. At the regional level, UNIFEM and partners contributed to the development of the first African Union Gender Policy and 10-year Action Plan that provides, inter alia, a framework for addressing violence against women. UNIFEM also provided technical support to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit on gender, peace and security in order to create a platform for policy dialogue and to identify practical actions to enhance transborder cooperation in addressing human trafficking and other issues affecting women and children. In the Caribbean, UNIFEM convened a regional advisory group on gender and development, with participation from the United Nations system, donors, CARICOM and regional non-governmental organizations, which led to the endorsement of a regional Special Rapporteur on gender-based violence as well as a joint programme concerning indigenous women. Improving access for survivors and developing the capacities of key policy and service delivery institutions 43. Two mainstays of UNIFEM programming are the expansion of women’s access to services and justice and the provision of support to Governments and other key actors in order to strengthen know-how and capacities for effective responses to violence against women. 44. Strengthening front-line responders in order to ensure police protection and high-quality responses for survivors is a priority in UNIFEM-supported programmes. In Rwanda, UNIFEM assisted in the formulation of the national police policy on gender-based and sexual violence and, with UNFPA and UNICEF, supported the establishment by the National Police Health Services of a One-Stop Centre for violence survivors at the Kacyriu Police Hospital, in Kigali. In Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, UNIFEM funded the Tanzania Female Police Network in order to establish a victim support unit for violence survivors. In the Caribbean, UNIFEM contributed to the commitment undertaken by six national 14 09-65802