A/HRC/32/3 E/CN.6/2016/8 IV. Trust Fund grantee achievements in 2015 25. Trust Fund grantees around the world work to change attitudes, improve service delivery and advocate for the implementation of laws. For example, in Kyrgyzstan, efforts by civil society groups, supported by UN -Women, led to the final approval in 2013 of legislation designed to end bride kidnapping, one of the issues highlighted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in its concluding observations from 2008 (see CEDAW/C/KGZ/CO/3). Nevertheless, according to Women’s Support Centre, a non-governmental organization, women and girls continue to experience high rates of domestic violence, including bride kidnapping and early and forced marriage. 4 The National Federation of Female Communities in Kyrgyzstan is piloting a school -based education programme, in two schools, to build leadership skills an d teach girls how to prevent and respond to threats of violence. An expert team developed an educational package focusing on empowering girls through education, art and media, the first of its kind in Kyrgyzstan. Trust Fund team members on a mission to monitor the project learned of its effect on generations of women in the same family. One woman said, of her 15-year-old granddaughter, “My generation had no choice, I had to stay in that marriage. I am happy that things are changing and that my granddaughter knows her rights”. 26. The work of Trust Fund grantees in 2015 was varied, reflecting the Trust Fund’s work to address and end violence against women and girls in all its forms. Grantee programmes are working with the police, addressing harassment in the workplace, reaching girls through sports, creating safe houses and advancing gender justice in post-conflict settings, among other strategies. 27. During the year, programmes supported by the Trust Fund benefited at least 1 million women, girls, men and boys, both directly and indirectly, through project activities. In total, 176,461 women and girls were reported as directly benefiting from project activities (as at 1 December 2015), including 5,810 survivors of violence, 5,108 indigenous women and/or wome n from ethnic minorities, 13,592 female migrant workers and 680 women and girls with disabilities. In addition, such projects engaged at least 101,333 men and boys, as well as 19,764 education professionals, 6,156 members of community-based organizations and 2,342 uniformed personnel as agents of change. Awareness-raising, social media campaigns, radio and television shows, theatre and other forms of edutainment enabled grantee programmes to strategically reach at least 678,335 people worldwide. 28. Throughout 2015, the Trust Fund undertook extensive monitoring missions to nine countries, in four regions, in order to validate the effectiveness of grantee programmes. The Trust Fund visited seven grantees from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, in Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan and Kosovo; one grantee from Asia, in Myanmar; two grantees from Africa, in Morocco and South Africa; and two grantees from Latin America and the Caribbean, in Antigua and Barbuda and El Salvador. During those missions, the Trust Fund visited key project sites and met __________________ 4 15-22220 More information available from www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/ sections/library/publications/2013/12/un%20women -evaw-kyrgystan-brief_usweb%20pdf.ashx?v=2&d=20141013T121456. 7/17