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which they operate. However, community engagement, awareness -raising and
education campaigns are strong themes running through the range of programmes
for addressing the structural and underlying causes and risk factors so as to prevent
violence against women and girls and effect sustainable change.
III. Setting a course for the future
11. A fundamental premise at the core of the Trust Fund ’s mission is that ensuring
freedom from violence is inseparable from improving the life chances, choices and
opportunities available to all women and girls and empowering them to pursue such
opportunities. Therefore, the Trust Fund centres its work within the framework of
intersectionality and the existing obligations of States under international and
national law. In that context, the newly agreed Sustainable Development Goals
provide a platform and umbrella for the Trust Fund’s strategic vision.
12. The Trust Fund has set the course for its future work with the adoption of its
new strategic plan, 2015-2020. The plan was developed in consultation with Trust
Fund donors and grantees, Member States, members of civil society organizations,
experts on the issue of violence against women and girls and members of the Trust
Fund’s Programme Advisory Committee.
13. The key focus areas that will guide Trust Fund interventions are: providing
multisectoral services for survivors, paying particular attention to the needs of
underserved women and girls; prevention, with a specific focus on formal
education; changing social norms, beliefs and attitudes, with a specific focus on
actively engaging men and young people; proactively using advances in technology;
disseminating and publicizing lessons learned by building a global evidence hub
based on the evaluated results of Trust Fund grantees; ensuring that supported
programmes focus on delivering sustainable and impact-oriented results; and
advocating for increased global giving in order to fund programmes that address
violence against women and girls.
14. In line with its aim of securing concrete and sustainable results, the Trust Fund
will look to award larger and longer-term grants that allow projects to be
implemented and evaluated adequately. Where the evidence suggests that specific
results could provide a model that can be replicated elsewhere, the Trust Fund may
consider directly reinvesting in those projects. Those grantees invited to submit a
second proposal, for a further funding cycle, will be selected on the basis of
specific, measurable criteria, including evidence of specific results achieved,
sustainability, the potential for replication and the use of innovative methodologies
and approaches. The work of identifying existing grantees who fulfil those criteria
has already begun.
15. The Trust Fund has increased its investment in improving the monitoring and
evaluation capacity of its grantees. A central focus of the new strategic plan is to
enhance evaluation capacity- and evidence-building in order not only to strengthen
accountability, but also to harness the global community of practice represented by
Trust Fund grantees in support of evidence-based programming. Such measures as
creating spaces to collate, analyse and present Trust Fund findings and further
developing the Trust Fund’s interactive online grant management system will form
part of the operationalization of the plan.
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