A/HRC/16/34 E/CN.6/2011/9 non-governmental organization Breakthrough); and as a member of the Affinity Groups organized on violence and gender issues in the lead-up to the event, with a range of private and public sector counterparts to foster new partnerships. Engaging groups of strategic importance: adolescents and youth, men and boys 60. The evidence is building that the prevention of violence against women and girls must start at younger ages, and that engaging adolescents and youth, and men of all ages, is a critical component to future success. 61. UNIFEM places strategic emphasis on advancing the rights and needs of adolescent girls, and on the role that young people of both sexes can play in prevention. It is one among more than 20 partners of the Man Up Campaign — the first global initiative focused exclusively on youth leadership and mobilization to address ending violence against women and girls. UNIFEM is also a member of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls, a global initiative focused on the needs and rights of marginalized adolescent girls in the context of the Millennium Development Goals and efforts aimed at poverty reduction and development. UNIFEM plays a key advisory and technical role on engendering the programme frameworks overall and more specifically on the pillar on gender-based violence, in collaboration with UNFPA and UNICEF (as co-chairs), and ILO, UNESCO and WHO. The Task Force will provide technical support and guidance to United Nations country teams in developing holistic programmes, with initiatives starting up in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Liberia and Malawi, with support from the United Nations Foundation. 62. UNIFEM also continued to support the Together for Girls initiative, a partnership spearheaded by a private sector individual, co-led with UNICEF and the United States-based Centers for Disease Control, involving other United Nations system agencies (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), UNFPA, WHO). It is focused on expanding the country data collection (via surveys) on sexual abuse against girls, in order to spur action and policy and service delivery responses. 63. UNIFEM also contributed to include a gender perspective in the agenda of the World Youth Conference held in Mexico in 2010 and in the joint statement signed by 27 heads of United Nations system agencies in New York at the global launch of the International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding. It also organized the Young Women’s Forum during the Conference, an open space of discussion about innovative solutions to empower young women as agents of peace, development and justice. 64. Collaboration with pro-equality men’s groups and the MenEngage Alliance, on which UNIFEM serves along other United Nations sister agencies on the International Advisory Committee, is ongoing at the advocacy and technical levels. This included UNIFEM collaboration with the partner organization’s expert on masculinities issues to develop the programming module on engaging men and boys in violence prevention; convening a Commission on the Status of Women panel for the release of the findings of a new international survey reflecting male attitudes about gender and violence; and continued collaboration with men’s networks at the country level (e.g., Colombia and Nepal, among others). 18 10-67259