A/HRC/16/34 E/CN.6/2011/9 foundation to develop a knowledge management system, as described in section V above. Next steps include the completion of a sophisticated global monitoring system in order to capture and track grantees’ results more efficiently and make them more accessible to a global audience. In 2011, with a view towards facilitating cross-learning, the Fund will create multiple global platforms for connecting grantees using similar strategies or interventions. 41. The establishment of UN Women by the General Assembly in 2010 provides a welcome institutional framework to strengthen collaboration and capture global expertise on approaches to end violence against women. Although the United Nations Trust Fund faces the continuous challenge of meeting extraordinary global demand for programmes to end violence against women, it will seek opportunities for leveraging existing resources as it intensifies its resource mobilization to engage new and diverse strategic partners. IX. UNIFEM (part of UN Women) programming on ending violence against women 42. UNIFEM (part of UN Women) currently supports programmes to address gender-based violence in some 90 countries of the world. Guided by its strategy, “A life free of violence: unleashing the power of women’s empowerment and gender equality”, in the course of 2010, UNIFEM advocacy, programming, partnerships, outreach and inter-agency collaboration continued to expand at global, regional and national levels, highlights of which are provided below. Furthering policies, laws and their implementation 43. The ongoing policy of UNIFEM and its technical advisory services to national Governments, advocates and other stakeholders included support to women’s machineries in eight Caribbean countries for evidence-based development of national action plans to end violence against women; as well as in the Seychelles, with the Ministry of Health and Social Development, and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs on the development of the national strategy — a first of its kind in the Arab region. 44. Through its ongoing work with parliamentarians, women’s machineries and the women’s movement, UNIFEM continues to support efforts for legislative reforms to end impunity and improve women’s access to justice. At the global level, this included expanded collaboration with the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the regional level, to strengthen legislators’ learning and exchange opportunities on good practice for strengthened enforcement and monitoring, and gender-responsive budgeting; as well as completion of an inter-institutional memorandum of understanding. At the country level, UNIFEM provided support for legal reforms, with the passage of the law on domestic violence in Timor-Leste, and amendments to Albanian laws related to family violence in order to improve confidentiality measures, sustainable shelters, and coordinated community response systems by local government. 10-67259 13