A/HRC/29/3 E/CN.6/2015/6 55. Other new Trust Fund grantees will up-scale and implement innovative approaches for addressing violence against women. In Liberia, for example, the Episcopal Relief and Development, a faith-based organization, will catalyse Christian, interfaith and Muslim organizations to become agents of change, create awareness of violence against women and girls in their communities and transform beliefs and attitudes that legitimize and condone violence. 56. New grantees will also strengthen the capacities of journalists and the media to raise awareness of the scale of violence against women and girls. In the State of Palestine, the Community Media Centre will shed light on the pervasivene ss of violence against women in Gaza and advocate for the creation of policies and procedures to protect women from violence. VI. The way ahead 57. The year 2015 is a significant one for the Trust Fund and for global initiatives to prevent and end violence against women and girls. Almost 20 years after its creation, the Trust Fund will respond to the evolving context provided by the post-2015 development agenda in setting a new course for the coming years that is true to its founding vision and agreed commitments. As one of the structural causes of gender inequality, violence against women and girls is interrelated with all critical areas that are holding women and girls back — in the public or private sphere — and therefore must be addressed as such. To that end the Trust Fund will centre its efforts within this framework of intersectionality and the existing obligations of States under international and national law and focus on implementation at the national and local level. 58. The Trust Fund’s strategy for 2015-2020 will focus on three core areas of work. Grant giving remains key and the Trust Fund will work to increase its grant giving portfolio in 2015 to $18 million, specifically targeting giving by the private sector and individual giving, as well as voluntary contributions by Member States. 59. The Trust Fund will aim to make an important contribution to evidence -based programming on violence against women and girls, by developing a knowledge management infrastructure that enables the unique body of knowledge and experience built up by Trust Fund grantees to be shared and to grow. 60. The Trust Fund will also focus on reversing the worldwide chronic underfunding of initiatives to address violence against women and girls by providing leadership in global advocacy and calling for a significant increase in global giving to this issue. The communications vehicle for this call will be the United Nations Trust Fund’s global resource mobilization campaign which will be launched in March at the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. 14-67252 13/13

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