A/HRC/19/30 E/CN.6/2012/13 gender-based violence indicators and collect cross-sectoral data on the implementation of the Sexual Offences Act. In India and Bangladesh, the Fair Wear Foundation is working to eliminate harassment and violence against women in textile export factories by conducting audits of 10 factories using the organization’s existing International Labour Organization-based verification audit methodology. 26. In 2011, the Fund intensified its efforts and investments in order to develop the capacities of grantees to conduct effective monitoring and evaluation and to improve the Fund’s overall processes for capturing and disseminating knowledge. The Fund provided technical feedback to grantees, beginning with the proposal development phase and continuing with assistance in developing and implementing grantees’ monitoring and evaluation plans. As in previous years, the 2011 Call for Proposals for the sixteenth grant-making cycle recommended that applicants dedicate 10 per cent of grants requested to evaluation and an additional 2 to 5 per cent to monitoring. In 2011, the Fund secretariat conducted monitoring visits to 13 grantees in seven countries, in addition to the regular monitoring by focal points for the Fund at the subregional offices of UN-Women. These field visits involved meetings with a range of grantees and stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Liberia and Thailand. 27. Closing the gaps in grantees’ capacity to design and implement programmes and knowledge regarding what works in ending violence against women is central to the Fund’s mandate, as described in the monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management framework for the period 2008-2011. In 2011, the Fund institutionalized capacity development training for recently funded grantees on evidence-based programme design, monitoring and evaluation. The Fund held two skills-building workshops, in Bangkok and New York, for new and current grantees, reaching a total of 18 organizations. 4 In addition to holding its annual skillsbuilding workshops, the Fund organized a three-day workshop tailored to meet the specific monitoring and evaluation needs of new grantees working to address the intersection of violence against women and HIV. The workshop enabled grantees to identify common outcomes of projects; to develop a system for communication and collaboration between grantees; and to share tools, resources and information in the context of HIV/AIDS and violence against women. Grantees responded enthusiastically to the Fund’s capacity-development training and have begun to integrate evidence-based research, monitoring and evaluation tools into their existing programmes. 28. In 2011, in order to further decrease the evaluation and knowledge gap as set out in its strategic vision, the Fund commissioned a study to map all the outcomes in the field of violence against women that had been influenced by grantees from grant-making cycles 10 to 14. A team of experts “harvested” outcomes from a total of 80 grantees implementing projects in 73 countries. This outcome-mapping process provided an unprecedented opportunity to generate knowledge (concerning trends, patterns and gaps) on where investments were proving most effective and on __________________ 4 8 A five-day regional workshop was held in Bangkok from 2 to 6 May 2011 for grantees, primarily from the Asia and Pacific and Arab States regions. There were more than 34 participants, including representation from 10 grantee organizations and United Nations country teams. In New York, the Fund held a three-day pre-implementation workshop on HIV and violence against women from 7 to 9 September 2011, engaging 39 participants from eight grantee organizations, in addition to UN-Women subregional focal points and a range of international experts on the intersection of violence against women and HIV. 11-63260