UN Trust Fund for Women to End Violence Against Women 2016 - Programme Areas
Funds for NGOs Last date 4th May 2016
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UN Trust Fund Priority Programmatic Areas The UN Trust Fund’s programmatic areas will complement existing national and UN-led efforts to protect human rights and promote gender equality in the context of Sustainable Development Goals and all other existing international commitments to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. If submitting an application under the programmatic window, proposals must contribute to one or more of the following areas, which are the focus of the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020: 1) Improving access for women and girls to essential, safe and adequate multi-sectoral services to end violence against women and girls; (2) Increasing effectiveness of legislation, policies, national action plans and accountability systems to prevent and end violence against women and girls; and (3) Improving prevention of violence against women and girls through changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices. By way of illustration only, applicants submitting a proposal under one of the UN Trust Fund’s three priority programmatic areas might consider: • Developing specific strategies for primary prevention of violence against women and girls, that is, strategies that will lead towards stopping violence from occurring altogether in the first place. Examples include: community and/or school-based approaches and interventions or working with men and boys on changing gender norms and the acceptability of violence, among various others. • Ensuring survivors’ access to justice, by strengthening implementation of existing national legislation, and alignment with international and regional human rights’ standards; and to quality health and other services and supports. This may include establishing or expanding access to services such as hotlines, safe spaces, legal assistance and crisis counseling, among others. • Empowering women to understand and claim their rights and mobilizing communities on ‘zero tolerance’ through legal literacy about international, national and local laws, policies and action plans, as well as through socio-economic (including employment) opportunities for women and girls to break out of the cycle of violence. • Strengthening efforts to address the full range of violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations, including efforts to prevent and address rape as a systematic method of warfare by State and non-state actors.5 • Responding to the needs and rights of especially excluded and underserved groups, such as women and girls living in poverty, adolescents and youth, migrant women workers, domestic workers, indigenous communities, women and girls living with HIV or disabilities, women and girls who have been trafficked, among others; or on especially neglected forms of violence or issues, such as sexual violence against girls and young women, abuse during pregnancy or economic violence. • Securing strategic policy commitments and budgets for implementation, by working to ensure that ending violence against women and girls is incorporated into leading national development and funding frameworks, such as Poverty Reduction Strategies, National Development Plans, National HIV and AIDS Plans, Sector-Wide Approaches, post-conflict peace-building and reconstruction frameworks, or upcoming post-2015 related plans. • Enlisting relatively ‘new’ stakeholders who have a critical, but largely untapped, role to play in preventing and addressing violence against women and girls, such as working with men and boys, young people, faith-based organizations, employers and trade unions, among other strategic groups.
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