UN Trust Fund
to End Violenceagainst Women
Annual Report 2022

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ANNUAL REPORT 2022
The United Nations Trust Fund in support of actions to eliminate violence against women (UN Trust Fund) was thefirst, and remains the only, global, multilateral grant-giving mechanism exclusively dedicated to supporting efforts toprevent and end violence against women and girls (VAW/G). Established by the General Assembly in 1996 (resolution
50/166), it is administered by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWomen) on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund involves UN bodies and organs, civil society organizations(CSOs) and experts on ending VAW/G in its decision-making processes through its Programme Advisory Committees.1“One of the ways which Women Challenged to Challenge has contributed
to the global feminist movement is by mobilizing women and girls
with disabilities both at community and national level to make thembe self-advocates of the change they want to see in society.”- Jackline Bartenge, Programme Manager at Women Challenged to Challenge,a grantee of the UN Trust Fund in Kenya.

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In 2022, the UN Trust Fund’s Programme Advisory Committee at the global and regional levels included representatives from leading
CSOs and other experts on ending VAW/G, as well as staff members from 11 UN organs and bodies that actively contributed to the
grant-giving approval processes, providing strategic input to funding decisions and playing a vital role in driving forward collective
efforts to engage the wider community in work to prevent and end VAW/G. This included representatives from Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund,the United Nations Children’s Fund, UN-Women, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/
AIDS, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization. It also
included intergovernmental organizations and other experts at the global and field levels, including representatives from the Center for
Women’s Global Leadership, Equality Now, the South African Medical Research Council as well as the United Nations Special Rapporteuron violence against women, its causes and consequences.

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Editor in Chief: Vesna Jaric
Produced by: Diep Nguyen
Editing: Lina NicolliWith contributions by the UN Trust Fund team: Adina Wolf, Amélie Gontharet, Anna Alaszewski, Anna Nemirovsky, Annie Hedlund, Astrid
Pertuisel, Daniele Elizaire, Dilshod Atakhanov, Elimane Bousso, Erika Petillo, Etsehiwot Eguale, Fiona Dalmier, Gemma Wood, Hisham Obaid,
Ines Finchelstein, Lorna Mesina, Madhuri Kibria, Marie Palitzyne, Mila Ioncheva, Mildred Garcia, Milad Kosoric, Miriam Modalal, Morgan
Ogenyi, Paloma Garron, Raissa Vitorio, Regina Salanova, Ruth Prieto Cabello, Sambou Diakite, Senem Aydogan, Shruti Majumdar, Tanya
Ghani, Tirualem Habtegebriel, Valentina Logiudice.

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Table of Contents
1. Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. List of abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
4. Scope and outreach of the UN Trust Fund-supported projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
5. UN Trust Fund’s contribution to global efforts to end violence against women and girls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6. Investment in organizational resilience and preparedness for effective adaptations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7. Grantee results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

7.1 Key results across outcome areas from the second yearof the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
7.2 Access to essential, safe and adequate multisectoral services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
7.3 Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
7.4 Implementation of laws, policies and national action plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
7.5 Delivering on leaving no one behind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
7.6 Capacity development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  53
8. Elevating and sharing practice based knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.1 Prevention Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
8.2 International convenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9. Spotlight Initiative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

9.1 Investing in movements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
9.2 Consolidating learning from Spotlight Initiative implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
9.3 Institutional strengthening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  72
10. LOOKING FORWARD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
11. THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  77
12. Technical Annex to the UN Trust Fund Annual Report 2021:
Results Framework Progress Report (2021-2025) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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FOREWORDAs the newly appointed Chief of the UN Trust Fund to End
Violence against Women, I had envisioned starting thisAnnual Report by portraying a more optimistic landscape – aworld where violence against women and girls (VAW/G) is
diminishing, where gender equality is advancing, where weare sailing on hopeful seas. Sadly, that is not where we are.
Instead, I have to reflect the stark reality that VAW/G
remains a deeply entrenched global crisis that affects one
in three women throughout their lifetime – a sobering
statistic – and transcends boundaries of culture, nationality
and socio-economic status. This pervasive crisis, fuelledby patriarchal norms and institutions, calls for immediate,concerted action from every corner of society. And thisis where I can say that there is a clear message of hope,determination and resilience to share, which shines throughthe work of UN Trust Fund grantees all over the world,many operating in extremely challenging environments.
The 2022 Annual Report of the UN Trust Fund showcases
the transformative impact driven by our grantee partners –women’s rights organizations and civil society organizations(WROs/CSOs) – throughout the past year. From Afghanistan
to Iran, from Sudan to Ukraine and from the Democratic
Republic of the Congo to El Salvador, it is our partners’
courage and resolve that is enabling the women and girls
they serve to imagine and pursue that better, safer andmore equal world – alongside all of us who want to see
an end to VAW/G and gender inequality.
Our partners, working in 70 countries and territories, show
us the power of grass-roots action every day. They are thebackbone of our global effort to safeguard the humanrights, dignity and freedoms of women and girls. They
are the first to respond to acts of violence and the last to
leave a crisis, ensuring that all women and girl survivorsof violence, including those experiencing intersecting
discrimination and most at risk of being “left behind”,
receive the holistic support they need to rebuild their lives.

Our partners’ achievements are at the heart of this report– and every initiative that reaches women and girls is a
step towards that better future we all seek. Our partners
supported the transformation of individual lives and thecommunities where they work. In 2022 alone, they reachedclose to 50 million community members, empowered
almost 500,000 women and girls, and reached tensof thousands of women and girls with empowerment
programming and life-saving support services.
The UN Trust Fund and our partners aim to reach womenand girls in all their diversity. This includes women andgirls from the lowest income brackets, LBTQI women,
Indigenous women and women and girls with disabilities.
The active efforts by our partners to engage with and reachthose most often overlooked, contributes significantly tocreating more just, inclusive and democratic communities
and societies.
This report underscores the crucial role of localized,
community-based interventions tailored to the specificneeds of women and girls in their respective contexts.
These interventions have proven to be the most effective
in driving transformative change and serve as valuable
sources of practice-based learning.
The UN Trust Fund is delighted to highlight that in 2022,
the launch of SHINE took place – an online hub for global
knowledge exchange on ending VAW/G, developed by
the UN Trust Fund in collaboration with the Spotlight
Initiative. This platform facilitates partners worldwide
to share experiences and knowledge, drawing inspirationfrom each other, regardless of their geographical locationand in over 50 languages.

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At the UN Trust Fund, we stand firmly on feminist principles,
acknowledging that inclusive women’s rights movements
and alliances are the driving force for transformativechange. In 2022, we fine-tuned our strategies to address
the needs voiced by our grantee partners and invested inwomen’s rights movement building. In response to thechallenges brought by COVID-19, war, political instability
and climate-induced disasters, we also increased our
support to strengthen organizational resilience andpreparedness and our 26th Call for Proposals focusedon those encountering multiple forms of discriminationand those living amid complex, protracted crisis settings.
At the UN Trust Fund, we know how vital long-term,
predictable, and sustained funding is, especially in timesof crises, and we remain committed to advocating for afunding landscape that responds to this need.

As the Chief of the UN Trust Fund, I cannot stress enoughthe importance of our partnerships with WROs/CSOs. I am
constantly inspired by their collective efforts and know thepower of transformative change when we stand united
against violence and discrimination and stand strong in
the face of the backlash against women’s rights.
As we look to the future, let us remember that every
stride we make in this shared journey, every life touched,and every norm challenged brings us one step closer toour ultimate goal at the UN Trust Fund: a world of global
solidarity in which all women and girls live free from all
forms of violence and enjoy and exercise their human rights.

In solidarity,
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2. List of abbreviations
AFA

Alliances for Africa

AFC

Association Femme et Citoyenneté

ARNBUdruženje Roma Novi Beččej (Novi Beččej Roma Association)

ArtGloArt & Global Health Center

BWO

Baghdad Women Organization

CAWTAR

Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research

CEM-H

Centro de Estudios de la Mujer – Honduras

CIARENA

Conservación, Investigación y Aprovechamiento de los Recursos Naturales

CISCSA

Centro de Intercambio y Servicios para el Cono Sur Argentina

COVIE

Conscience et Vie

CREAWCentre for Rights Education and Awareness

CSOs

Civil society organizations

CWR

Center of Women’s Rights

CWSI

Centre for Women Studies and Intervention

DFJ

Dynamique des Femmes Juristes

DRC

Democratic Republic of Congo

FACT Zimbabwe

Family AIDS Caring Trust Zimbabwe

FGM/C

Female genital mutilation/cutting

FODDAJ

Forum for Women in Development and Democracy and JusticeSelf-identified FSW

Self-identified female sex workers

FUNDECOFundación para la Promoción de la Economía Social y Cooperativa

GBV

Gender-based violence

GBVDR NET

Gender-Based Violence and Disability Rights Network

IDIWA

Integrated Disabled Women Activities

IMUMI

Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (Institute for Women in Migration)

INERELA+International Network of Religious Leaders Living withor Personally Affected by HIV and AIDSIYWDInstitution of Young Women Development

M&E

Monitoring and evaluation

MOSAIC

Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice

OCD

Organization for Community Development

PILC

Public Interest Law Center

PSEA

Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse

PSHA

Prevention of Sexual Harassment and Abuse

RuWCED

Rural Women Center for Education and Development

SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

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SGBV

Sexual and gender-based violence

Sonke

Sonke Gender Justice

Spotlight Initiative

Spotlight Initiative of the European Union and the United Nations

SUWA

Scripture Union West Africa

SVRI Forum

Sexual Violence Research Initiative ForumSWAGAA

Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse

UN Trust Fund

United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women

UN Women

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

VAW/G

Violence against women and girls

VSLA

Village Saving and Loans Association

WATC

Women’s Affairs Technical Committee

WDWs

Women domestic workers

WINGS

Women Initiating New Goals of Safety

WOLREC

Women’s Legal Resource Centre

WROs

Women’s rights organizations

ZNWL

Zambia National Women’s Lobby

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INTRODUCTION

Globally, violence against women and girls (VAW/G) remained the most widespread human rights
abuse in 2022, a year marked by escalating conflict and a further shrinking of civic spaces, withthe lives, bodies, dignity and freedom of women and girls under assault from threats and acts ofviolence. Pushback on women’s rights and feminist movements is on the rise across every regionof the world. As anti-rights forces continued to expand, this trend manifested itself in different
ways, including through national policies and laws that pose significant risks of rolling backhard-earned rights – right acquired thanks to the trailblazing efforts of civil society organizations
and women’s rights organizations (CSOs/WROs) whose work has always been and remains acentral focus of UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) support.

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This report describes the achievements and impact of
CSOs/WROs-led programming to end VAW/G, supportedby the UN Trust Fund. In the context of recovery fromCOVID-19 and response to multiple overlapping crises, theUN Trust Fund’s support extended to include investment inorganizational resilience and preparedness for adaptations
to effectively enable the work of CSOs/WROs at theforefront of responding to VAW/G. Throughout 2022,
the UN Trust Fund fostered close relationships with
CSOs/WROs based on mutual enablement, collectively
contributing to strengthening inclusive feminist alliancesand movements, key drivers of transformative change
at local, national, regional and global levels. Grass-roots,
women-led and women’s rights organizations continued
to provide localized prevention initiatives and lifeline
specialist support services and to empower community
members to advocate for sustainable and life-changing
impact in their own communities.
This report also details the second year of implementationof the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025, withinsights on activists’ uncompromising pursuit of a safer
world for women against a challenging backdrop. The year
2022 was marked by mindful investment in practice-basedknowledge on programming to end VAW/G emerging
from CSOs/WROs through peer exchanges, in a spirit ofmutual enablement. Their expertise, practices and voices
consolidate the understanding that achieving results on
ending VAW/G is dependent upon investment in CSOs/
WROs’ organizational resilience. The report sheds lighton how these actors and an intentional and proactive
intersectional approach are delivering on the Agenda 2030
principle of leaving no one behind.
Emerging needs from contextual challenges voiced by
CSOs/WROs informed the UN Trust Fund’s work, including
its 26th Call for Proposals in 2022. This Call focused on
ending VAW/G with a particular emphasis on thoseexperiencing intersecting forms of discrimination in allcontexts, including those working in protracted crises. In

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light of the global context of increasingly complex, longer
and overlapping crises and the need of CSOs/WROs to haveaccess to long-term, predictable and sustained funding fortheir life-saving work, the 2022 Call for Proposals invited allorganizations to strengthen their preparedness capacityand organizational resilience to effectively address VAW/G
before and once a crisis hits.
At the heart of this report is an overview of grantees’
results and the impacts of their interventions during 2022
grouped under the UN Trust Fund’s three outcome areas:

1. Improved prevention
of VAW/G throughchanges in behaviours,
practices and attitudes
2. Improved access for womenand girls to essential, safe
and adequate multisectoral
services
3. Improved effectivenessof legislation, policies,
national action plans
and accountability systems
The report highlights the UN Trust Fund’s efforts toco-create communications and advocacy platforms toamplify the knowledge and practice that CSOs/WROs
are leading and that enrich the ending VAW/G ecosystem.
These platforms are helping to build a solid foundationthat drives forward inclusive feminist movements basedon evidence and the voices of the women and girls these
CSOs/WROs are serving.

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In 2022, the UN Trust Fund marked a first milestone
with a prevention webinar series titled “Learning from
Practice: Lessons on preventing violence from civil society
organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violenceagainst Women” created in collaboration with

70 grantees and external
researchers.

The briefs in this series explored 10 pathways to prevention,
validated through global consultations with more than

250 ending VAW/G practitioners,
and set the stage for ongoing learning and dialogue on
the newly launched SHINE, a virtual knowledge exchange
hub produced by the UN Trust Fund and developed incollaboration with the Spotlight Initiative of the European
Union and the United Nations (Spotlight Initiative).

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50 languages.

This was followed by the launch of the first-ever UN TrustFund podcast titled “Pathways to Prevention”, guiding
listeners through these practices, which was shared ona range of distribution platforms and highly ranked in
multiple countries and territories. Guided by a wealth ofcivil society-led knowledge and practices, the UN TrustFund contributed to different global convening platforms
through joint evidence-based advocacy and collective action
for more core, flexible, long-term funding for CSOs/WROs.
The final chapter of this report focuses on projects fundedby the UN Trust Fund under the Spotlight Initiative. These
projects focused on strengthening CSOs/WROs-led
initiatives on movement building, in line with Outcome
6 of the Spotlight Initiative Theory of Change.2

Spotlight Initiative Theory of Change for Outcome 6 in “Terms of Reference 2017-2023”

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on preventing and addressing VAW/G in 70 countries andterritories, across five regions, with grants totalling

Grantees continued to step up and respond to the needsof women and girls, reaching over

47,578,975 people,
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Estimated total number of women and girls reached through UN Trust fund projects, including primary, secondary and indirect beneficiaries.
The indirect beneficiaries are typically beneficiaries reached through awareness campaigns on TV, radio, public events etc. where sex/
gender disaggregated data is often unavailable. Where gender and sex is unknown, the percentage of female population globally (49.7%)
has been used to estimate the total number of women and girls reached. Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.FE.ZS

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433,677 women and girls

directly benefited from or were involved as partners4

in UN Trust Fund grantee-led projects. Women and girls were empowered to exercise agency for transformationalchange in their own lives – specifically through accessing specialist support services and prevention initiatives and as
co-creators in the design and implementation of projects to end VAW/G, including efforts to improve the effectivenessof legislation, policies and national action plans.

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The UN Trust Fund’s work is guided by the principle of leaving no one behind, implemented through an intentional andpro-active intersectional approach. Central to numerous initiatives is the recognition by grantees of the interconnection
between ending VAW/G and addressing multiple, intersecting forms of discrimination. In 2022, grantees changed thelives of at least:

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41,780and/or affected by AIDS; andsurvivors of VAW/G;

Indigenous women and girls;

22,915

women and girls living with HIV

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women and girls living with disabilities.5

refugee and internallydisplaced women and girls;

105,686

women and girls belonging
to the lowest income group;

Women and girls continued to be at the centre of these advocacy efforts
with at least 1,275,730 women and girls able to access information,
goods, resources and/or services to help prevent or respond to VAW/G.6

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by type, to track how projects are reaching marginalized groups. However, disaggregation by type is optional, hence final numbers area sample and are probably an underestimate.

6 The number of women and girls, inclusive of the sex and gender disaggregation categories “self-identified” and “unable to disaggregate”.

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UN TRUST FUND’SCONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL EFFORTS

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The UN Trust Fund continued to use its unique convening
power as a United Nations system-wide grant-giving
mechanism to build and foster partnerships with civil society
and technical experts through interagency engagement.
This included leveraging its positioning and existing multistakeholder governance structure to inform programmingunder the Spotlight Initiative (see Chapter 9).

The UN Trust Fund contributes to these efforts by enabling
CSOs/WROs through the provision of dedicated, flexible
funding to exercise their expertise in ending VAW/G. The
partnerships formed with grantees informed not only the
UN Trust Fund, but also the entire United Nations system andkey local, national and regional partners leading efforts tobring about change for women and girl survivors and thoseat risk of violence. Simultaneously, the efforts, expertiseand knowledge led and generated by CSOs/WROs are often
the driving force behind fostering inclusive women’s andfeminist movements and therefore leading to collective
actions in addressing systemic VAW/G issues.

The vision of the UN Trust Fund’s
Strategic Plan 2021-2025 is situatedunder Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) 5. It is integral to theachievement of Outcome 5 of the
UN Women Strategic Plan 2021-2025
on “Voice, leadership and agency ofwomen and girls” and Impact 3 on“Ending Violence against Women”.

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The commitment and strength of CSOs, especially WROs – and feminist
movements more broadly – are a key factor in driving positive change
to end VAW/G.
Resourcing and creating an enabling environment where
women’s rights and feminist organizations can lead areessential to promote and protect women’s human rights andto systemically “dismantle colonial, racist and patriarchal
power structures”, as outlined in the recommendation of
Women7 (W7)7 to the leaders of the G7 in 2022.

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W7 also urged G7 leaders to commit sufficient financing
and funding for gender-based violence (GBV) prevention,
protection and response, including “investing an additional
100 million USD of yearly contributions to UN Women,
including the UN Women-managed UN Trust Fund to End
Violence against Women” to support implementation ofcommitments under the Action Coalition on Gender-based
Violence within the scope of Generation Equality.

Women7 (W7) is a group of CSOs that come together to promote proposals on gender equality and women’s rights within the G7 process.
Building on feminist principles of intersectionality and inclusion, W7 aims to bring together voices from civil society around the world tocritically reflect on and inform G7 outcomes. Its objective is to ensure that G7 leaders make concrete political and financial commitmentsthat can have a tangible, lasting and transformative impact on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity, https://women7.org/

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In terms of knowledge generation and management,
the UN Trust Fund supported grantee organizations to
codify their knowledge through facilitated exchange
and cooperation.

Grounded in feminist principles,the process of codifying practicebased knowledge has enriched
the partnership building both
between grantees and with the
UN Trust Fund.

The knowledge products of this process informed the UN
Trust Fund’s advocacy. Investments made in facilitating
conversations with and among grantees have contributed
to UN Women’s evidence-based policy advocacy andthought leadership on advancing gender equality andwomen’s empowerment.

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Throughout 2022, it was clear that flexible, core and adequate
resourcing is crucial for CSOs/WROs to navigate thecompounded impact of global and local crises. Operational
and programmatic adaptations implemented by UN TrustFund grantees in response to COVID-19 provided a strong
foundation and evidence for continuous investment inorganizational resilience with which grantees can continue
to meet the needs of women and girl survivors of violencein contexts of uncertainty beyond the pandemic. Building
resilience involves both the organizational efforts to adapt
risk management systems that can withstand challenges
created by rapidly changing contexts and donor adaptationin grant-giving practices that acknowledge CSOs/WROs’
initiatives in prioritizing women’s safety and empowerment
in all circumstances. The UN Trust Fund has embraced thatreality and responded by providing support in the formof flexible, long-term funding and resources for self- andcollective care to enable grantee staff to continue theirwork to end VAW/G in situations where crises, or theiraftermath, create specific and increased challenges.

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The UN Trust Fund captured results enabled by institutional
strengthening investment through five indicators that wereintroduced during the COVID-19 pandemic:

26,707beneficiaries werereached with food,hygiene, sanitation and/or other emergency needparcels in order to ensure

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2,02670 %due to grantee organizations’adaptation for work from homepolicy or provision of equipment.

that could meet pre-COVID-19
expectations or exceed expected
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resuming activities

These indicators were introduced during intense adaptations in
response to the global pandemic. However, they remained relevant in
capturing adaptations to multiple overlapping, often unpredictable,
crises that required flexibility for rapid operational and programmatic
adaptations in 2022.

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In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the grantee
Dynamique des Femmes Juristes (DFJ) operated in a context
of multiple, overlapping crises in North Kivu provincethroughout 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic paralysed thefunctioning of all institutions including courts and tribunals;
a state of siege (similar to a state of emergency) imposed in
the project area replaced civilian authorities with military
authorities and civilian courts with military courts; the 2021
eruption of the Nyiragongo Volcano near the provincial
capital, Goma, caused damage to infrastructure, impacting
women and girls; and the ongoing war between the M23
armed group and the national army left women and girls
at increasing risk of violence and with very limited accessto justice.
DFJ reported in 2022 that there had been an increased
number of rape cases where victims were children andperpetrators were relatives to whom parents facing
displacement and insecurity had entrusted their children.
In recognition of the fact that organizational resilienceand crisis preparedness are two main components of along-term sustainability beyond the project, DFJ worked
on adapting its policies, procedures, practices and systems.
This included promoting mobile court hearings and training
magistrates and court officers to ensure an appropriate
judicial response during multiple crises. This practice has
been replicated at state headquarters and has improved
access to justice for survivors of VAW/G.

Grantees’ experienceof effective adaptation
highlights the value of localizedinterventions and their ability
to rapidly pivot to the needsof beneficiaries in changing
contexts.
With support from the UN Trust Fund, grantee organizations
achieved significant results during the year throughcreative context-based relevant adaptations to projectinterventions to meet the needs of women and girl survivors
and those at particular risk of violence. Grantees usedcreatively and improved technology-facilitated solutions
born out of COVID-19 to increase both outreach andaccess to services. They also recognized that co-creation
with community members had proved to be catalytic
for enhancing collective preparedness and institutionalchanges. Rising food insecurity and economic injusticeprompted adaptations to address the intersection between
women’s economic empowerment and VAW/G. Finally,
investment in self- and collective care emerged as aneffective way to enable organizational reflection andanalysis of their resilience needs.

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districts to support women survivors of domestic violence when they leave
temporary safe shelters. In mid-2022, Rozan quickly adapted its project activities
to respond to the emerging needs of women and girls beyond their mandate in
the context of crisis when catastrophic flooding killed over 1,500 people, displacednearly 8 million, and left countless numbers in areas of the country still submerged
lacking shelter, food, clean water and medicine.
Rozan’s team immediately conducted a basic assessment to understand theimmediate needs of the affected communities, especially their needs for food,shelter and medical supplies. The assessment informed the organization’s
development of a flood relief plan during which it provided a first round of bags
containing food, medical supplies and dignity kits to communities settling incamps and temporary shelters.
Given that every disaster impacts on the psychosocial health of communities,
Rozan’s team of psychologists is building an action plan to address issues ofstress and shock. Rozan is also providing immediate emotional and psychosocial
support to affected communities.

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Responding to survivors’ needs through context-relevant interventions
Operational adaptations including cash-based interventions
as implemented by UN Trust Fund grantees in Kenya,
Jordan and Nigeria to women-headed households or
women businessowners were not only crucial to meeting
women’s immediate survival and longer-term needs but
were also an important element in mitigating violence inthe family and community.
In Kenya, for example, a cash transfer programme launchedby the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW)
provided financial support to survivors of VAW/G througha mobile money platform which was able to meet theimmediate and urgent needs of 306 women, some ofwhom were able to start small businesses which are
now thriving. CREAW devised identification criteria anda verification process so that survivors could be identified
before cash was transferred.

Despite the war in Ukraine, the NGO “Club Eney”, a small
UN Trust Fund grantee, kept alive service provision for
women and girls at high risk of violence and abuse: women
who use drugs, self-identified women sex workers, women
living with HIV and internally displaced women and girls.
As part of the immediate response to the crisis, Club
Eney, with support of the UN Trust Fund, repurposedsome resources for an immediate response to keep
their staff and beneficiaries safe. One of the facilitators
implementing Women Initiating New Goals of Safety(WINGS), a screening and intervention tool to guide womenat risk through risk assessment and safety planning, wasevacuated from Kharkiv, while others received allowancesfor evacuation, food and medication for project staff andprimary beneficiaries, as well as working tools and supplies
to help internally displaced women grow vegetable andimprove food security.

A total of 315 women
received humanitarian aid,
27 women received seeds,
tools and supplies for workand 21 women received cash
assistance for evacuation.
In addition, responding to the fact that women who use
drugs and women who engage in sex work experienced
greater discrimination at shelters, Club Eney opened ashelter in Kyiv to serve women survivors and trained
community activists to advocate for equal access toshelters to improve their safety.

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Technology-facilitated solutions
In 2022, the 67 th Commission on the Status of Women
called for increased support and coordination with CSO/
WROs to improve policy coherence and coordination on
ending VAW/G.8 During the year, while continuing tocontend with the protracted pandemic, CSOs/WROs also
had to adapt to the rising socio-political turbulence andenvironmental crises that directly and indirectly impacted
the lives of women and girls. One of the key adaptions
undertaken by several grantees was extending the use oftechnology in their activism to prevent and end VAW/G.
A number of innovative technology-facilitated responses
coming out of COVID-19 adaptations will continue to be
updated and accessed by more users even after theseparticular projects have ended.

The grantee Art & Global Health Center (ArtGlo) in Malawi
piloted online programming for their MAWA project andMAWA Edge classroom on the Omprakash platform, where
all the project training sessions took place.

This enabled 20 CSOs to acquire
improved skills, knowledge andcapacities to lead their own
local projects on ending VAW/G.
Msauko Jafali, a member ofYoung Women Rise, a women-led
organization, in Chradzulu said:“I will use my new acquired skills[from MAWA Edge classroom] in looking for
further collaboration and networking. I am
more confident in my abilities than I was
6 months ago.”
Although restrictions on movement to contain COVID-19
ended, ArtGlo continued the online pilot and worked with
CSOs to improve their virtual visibility, with two CSOs
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Feminist co-creation of collective and sustainable solutions
During 2022, grantees led co-creation efforts with
community members to plan and implement solutions
to prevent and end VAW/G at the local level with the aimof sustaining gains beyond the project cycle, particularlyin the context of a rising backlash against women’s rights.
In Zimbabwe, CSOs/WROs like the Institution of Young
Women Development (IYWD) and the Family AIDS Caring
Trust Zimbabwe (FACT) Zimbabwe experienced restrictionsin operating in civic spaces as a result of limits imposedon their right to freedom of association, while humanand women’s rights defenders and activists also faced
institutional harassment. The grantees informed the
UN Trust Fund that restrictive legislation and increased
surveillance of their activities and administrativerequirements for CSOs, introduced by the government in
the run-up to general elections, resulted in shrinking spacefor CSOs/WROs to operate and implement programming toend VAW/G. This led to the arrest of IYWD staff and project
participants in 2022 on a charge of convening a public
meeting without police clearance while implementing
project activities in the community and they were awaiting
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The UN Trust Fund has engaged with UN Women in
Zimbabwe regarding this situation, organizing a virtual
convening of grantees and the UN Women Country Office
to discuss these challenges and seeking to strengthen
support for grantees, including by developing a risk
mitigation plan.
In this context, CSOs/WROs found different entry points
to navigate the limited space. IYWD chose to integrate thefeminist movement building strategy into its programming
through a Training of Trainers model that enabled women
to immediately mobilize themselves to engage duty bearers
and influence changes in the behaviours, values andbeliefs perpetuating VAW/G even when the CSOs/WROs
involved could no longer operate. FACT cultivated a cultureof accountability within stakeholders’ institutions while
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In Mexico, the grantee Conservación, Investigación y Aprovechamiento de losRecursos Naturales (CIARENA) introduced a horticultural training initiative as
an adjustment when COVID-19 hit just as the project started. Implemented in
Indigenous communities and led by young Indigenous women in Oaxaca state, thisproject addressed the rising food insecurity that was driving VAW/G, benefiting
women with little to no access to economic opportunities, including women headof households and domestic workers. Produce made from the project helped
cover consumption needs and enabled some women to sell vegetables and earnsmall incomes.
The success of this activity relied on consultation with and the active participationof beneficiaries: women were consulted on what to grow and what techniques
to use. As a result, while this initiative was initially piloted in 2021, most womenare still growing local fruits and vegetables using their traditional knowledge
and techniques, which not only improves food safety at the community level, butalso strengthens Indigenous women’s autonomy and improves their self-esteem
while creating intergenerational exchanges to sustain change.
This seemingly simple initiative also contributed to shifting attitudes around whogets to work in the fields – an activity traditionally reserved for men. Finally, it also
contributed to environmental justice in an area where landowners monopolize
fertile ground for pesticide-heavy monoculture farming, leading to poor soil healthand the disappearance of Indigenous culture.

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Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and in theaftermaths of other crises, which have damaged national
economies and made existing support systems more fragile,
informed CSOs/WROs’ adoption of women’s economic
empowerment activities. These activities which were
initiated and extended through efforts such as vocational
workshops and craft projects to generate income, reflected
the transformative capacity within CSOs/WROs to adapt.
Results from grantees’ work has consistently shown the link
between women’s increased financial independence andbetter access to resources and greater security, including
protection from violence. Importantly, results in 2022
demonstrated that these activities held potential not
only to improve women’s incomes but also to sustain theireconomic empowerment.

“A pressing need for many survivors of VAW/G
is economic independence especially when
they are at present dependent financially on
the perpetrator of violence who continues toexhibit violent behaviour.”Member of the Organization
for Community Development (OCD),
a grantee in India working in rural areas
with fisher communities.

Staff and volunteers of the grantee Scripture Union West
Africa (SUWA) in Nigeria were fully equipped to continue
programme implementation with COVID-19 as an integrated
component of efforts. Throughout 2022, SUWA’s projectempowered women and girl survivors and those at riskof violence to gain financial stability and develop incomegenerating activities, such as soap-making or baking, throughthe Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA).

SUWA supported the formationof 10 groups with 231 participantsof whom 95% were able to accessloans for their various businesses.
This expanded during the year
to 48 groups involving a total
1,062 women.
VSLA groups have enhanced women’s ability to accessloans outside normal banking constraints and becomeless dependent, thus enabling them to provide for theirchildren and family, pay school fees and purchase groceries
for the household. Increased capacity and confidence havealso led to their participating in community development,
leadership and decision-making.

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Self- and collective care, an indispensable part of sustainable change
An important enabling element in grantees’ successfulproject outcomes was the UN Trust Fund’s investment in theresilience of CSOs and their ability to adapt in increasingly
complex contexts, coupled with core and flexible funding,including for staff self- and collective care.
In Iraq, the Baghdad Women Organization (BWO) led aproject that aimed to improve access to essential, safe
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release techniques. An immediate recommendation comingfrom this activity was a demand for more such training forother local organizations working directly with beneficiaries
and further development of skills and tools for handlingcases with VAW/G survivors.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Center of Women’s
Rights (CWR) maintained its “Person of Trust” programmethroughout the spread of and recovery fromthe COVID-19 pandemic, assisting
1,993 women survivors ofviolence, particularly intimate
partner violence.
CWR made use of the availability of the UN Trust Fund
self-care grant for small organizations to create internal
self-care group sessions and problem-solving workshops.
Meliha Sendic, President of CWR, reflected: “This grant
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7.1 Key results across outcome areas from the second year of the UN Trust Fund’s
Strategic Plan 2021-2025

3. Increased effectiveness oflegislation, policies, national
action plans and accountability
1. Improved access for womensystems. In addition, lessons
and girls to essential, safe andlearned and knowledge reported
adequate multisectoral services;by grantees have informed the
UN Trust Fund’s investments
2. Improved prevention of VAW/G
in initiatives that adopt an
through changes in behaviours,
intersectional approach thatpractices and attitudes;
aims to reach women and girls
in particularly marginalized
communities who risk being
left furthest behind.

The Strategic Plan 2021-2025 places CSOs, and especially
WROs, at the centre of the UN Trust Fund’s work as it
continues to fund interventions in three outcome areas:

This approach is featured in the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025 among key strategies to end VAW/G.

In 2022, grantee-led initiatives directly transformed the lives of

81,866 women and girl survivors of violence,

almost 1.5 times as many as the year before.

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In many cases, women and girls face multiple andintersecting forms of violence, to which grantees respondedwith interventions that sought to meet both the immediate
and the longer-term needs of survivors and those at riskof violence.

Throughout 2022, 62,111 womenand girls used specialist support
services to address and end VAW/G.
At the same time, UN Trust Fund grantees supported 13,288
individual service providers and institutions in improving
specialist service provision for survivors and women andgirls at risk.

Quality services, including but
not limited to legal aid andfacilitation in reaching court,
enabled 21,113 women and girls toaccess justice effectively
in cases of VAW/G.
Efforts by CSOs/WROs were captured using 21 common
indicators, five of which specifically focused on grantees’
adaptations to the impact of COVID-19. Many of theseadaptations contributed to the overall outreach and impact
of ensuring no woman or girl is left behind, including during
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per cent of all grantee organizations reported being fullyback on track or exceeding pre-COVID expectations ofdelivery, compared to 48 per cent in 2021.
The UN Trust Fund continued its close communication
with grantees throughout the year, with 364 meetings
where grantees shared progress, received programmaticand capacity support and ensured quality assurance
through reporting.
Whether operating in ongoing conflicts, in the aftermathof natural disasters, or in ever shrinking and increasingly
unsafe civic spaces, CSOs/WROs adapted to mitigate therisks of VAW/G through bold, context-relevant, innovative
programming.

Projects led by UN Trust Fund
grantees directly increased thecapacities of 67,620 women andgirls to participate in public life
and/or exercise leadership inefforts to end VAW/G.
This result was extremely important throughout 2022 whenmany CSOs/WROs reportedly faced more restrictions inmaintaining safe operations either because of restrictions
on the right to freedom of association or assembly, or moretangible threats against women’s human rights defenders.

During the year, the UN Trust Fund organized and/or facilitated grantees’ participation in

14 global events,
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Throughengagement events,

the UN Trust Fund brought together more than

117 participants,

including grantees,

UN Women Country Office colleagues and other partners.

Based on the success of previous years, throughout 2022,
the UN Trust Fund continued its commitment to elevating
practice-based knowledge that informs its advocacy
through global and country-focused convenings.

These convenings contributed
to strengthening coordinationand knowledge exchange
among grantees and partners,
provided networking
opportunities and ensured that
the UN Trust Fund looped backto country-level practitioners’
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Immediate results of such convenings included increased
cooperation and coordination between UN WomenCountry Offices and UN Trust Fund grantees, particularly
in geographic areas where both were carrying out
programming to end VAW/G, and enhanced support to
CSOs operating in challenging circumstances. For example,in March 2022, El Salvador introduced emergency legislation(Régimen de excepción) which imposed restrictions on
freedom of association and assembly, among others. UN
Trust Fund convened partner organizations in El Salvador
and the UN Women Country Office in a dialogue onorganizational resilience in this challenging political context.
The virtual meeting also served as a platform for partnerorganizations to network and foster feminist movements.

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Under this pillar of work, the UN Trust Fund supports projects that provide
specialist support services as well as those that work directly with service
providers to improve access to such services for women and girl survivors
and those at risk of VAW/G. CSOs/WROs efforts in further engaging directly
and indirectly with multisectoral stakeholders are crucial to enhancing thequality of tailored, multisector, survivor-centred service provision.
Throughout 2022, at least 62,111 women and girls used specialist support
services to end VAW/G supported by UN Trust Fund grantees.
In Tunisia, Association Femme et Citoyenneté (AFC), a small
women-led organization, maintained services at its Manara
Centre (established in 2014) – the only centre for womensurvivors of all forms of violence in the north-western regionof Tunisia. Some 80 per cent of those using the centre aresurvivors of domestic violence.

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In the first six months of 2022 alone, AFC’s Manara Centre
welcomed a total of 260 women survivors of violence, 145of whom came to the centre for the first time. The centre
also initiated 74 legal actions (proceedings in 51 of whichwere ongoing and 20 of which resulted in judgments infavour of survivors). In addition, the centre started providing
psychological support, a new service since February 2022,
to 32 survivors.

Besides individual support, the service also included 11
discussion group sessions, which contributed to improving
survivors’ self-esteem and decision-making power. This
activity has since paved the way for the creation of groupcohesion and friendship bonds that are essential for rebuilding
social support systems. AFC also worked with 70 social
service and healthcare providers, uniformed personnel,
administration officials and clerks in the justice sector to
improve their knowledge and skills in receiving and handlingcases of VAW/G.
In Serbia, the grantee Udruženje Roma Novi Beččej (NoviBeččej Roma Association, ARNB) led 10 meetings, six caseconferences and two public workshops with government
representatives, service providers and the provincial
ombudsman to improve their understanding of theirrole in providing adequate and appropriate services tosurvivors of violence. The organization also operated an
SOS Helpline where women survivors and those at risk ofviolence could seek psychological support or be referred
to legal services.

During the reporting period,a total of 74 women and girls
at risk or survivors of violence
were provided with legal
counselling and assistance;
21 women received emergency
support, including medical,
food and transport assistance,
to leave violent situations;and 18 received basic necessities
within 24 hours of reporting
violence.
In addition, ARNB also referred seven women and girls to
institutional support services, five of which were cases ofchild marriage and two of rape/sexual violence.

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operate. They have built trust-based relationships incommunities which enable them to reach those at highest
risk of violence and exclusion.
For example, the Forum for Women in Development and
Democracy and Justice (FODDAJ) led a project focusing onstrengthening emergency responses to sexual and genderbased violence (SGBV) in refugee hosting communities
and improving access to services for adolescent girls andyoung women refugees.

In 2022, FODDAJ recorded 123
girls aged 15-24 requesting
specialist support services,
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This was a direct result of FODDAJ’s outreach activity
through which adolescent girls and young women becameaware of available services. Additionally, FODDAJ also
provided income-generating skills training through its“Learn to Earn” programme.
This delivered training to a total of 50 girls on tailoring,soap making, hairdressing, literacy skills and computers.

As a result of the initiative,
50 girls received completion
certificates validated by the
Ministry of Education; 13 girls
went on to advanced level
education; eight girls foundemployment in nearby tradecentres; and 11 girls started theirown soap making and tailoringbusinesses.
The skills building activities not only offered a pathway
out of poverty and towards financial independence, butalso increased girls’ decision-making power in relation toaccess to healthcare, use of contraceptives and mobility.

In Mexico, the Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (IMUMI, Institute for Womenin Migration) is using a grant from the UN Trust Fund to improve access to specialist
support services for women migrants from the Latin America and the Caribbean
region. IMUMI is also collecting data to inform policy recommendations that will
better serve the needs of women and girl asylum seekers. On average, before they fled
their home countries, around three-quarters of the women receiving IMUMI support
had been subjected to some form of violence (physical, psychological, economic or
sexual) perpetrated by a partner, former partner or relative, or by gangs, police orother authorities. Unfortunately, many of the women who reach Mexico continue
to face institutional violence and aggression.
Further, the prolonged wait to obtain refugee status from the Mexican Commission
for Refugee Assistance leaves many women asylum seekers without access to public
services, including healthcare, education, housing and decent employment. As aresult, IMUMI’s legal clinic has designed and implemented a multi-pronged modelof care tailored to meet the individual and multi-faceted needs of women survivorsof violence, including legal aid and mental healthcare.
To address the types of violence often faced by women on the move, IMUMI iscollaborating with other CSOs and academic institutions in Mexico to develop andimplement strategies that can coordinate referrals and update information to
inform tailored assistance for each woman.
IMUMI is also working with local feminist organizations on policy advocacy byproviding evidence and proposals for policy reforms that reflect the voices andneeds of migrant women and asylum seekers. Marcela Orozco, Project Coordinatorfor IMUMI, stressed how it is important to “understand the cultural aspects of eachregion, and, therefore, of its population”.

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7.3 Prevention
Preventing VAW/G remained an important intervention area for UN Trust Fund grantees in 2022.
Across the UN Trust Fund portfolio, grantees supported 27,102 community, faith, traditional
and/or youth leaders to publicly advocate for changes in attitudes, behaviours and practices,
including harmful practices, toward ending VAW/G. Thanks to cumulative efforts of the UN TrustFund grantees, 1,249 spaces, including schools, general public spaces and work environments,
were made safer for women and girls, bringing them one step closer to living a life free fromthe threat or acts of violence.
The grantee Zambia National Women’s Lobby (ZNWL)
addressed school-related sexual violence by empowering
girls in Girls Leadership Clubs and through intra-provincial
school debates where topics such as sexual violence, HIV
infections, teenage pregnancies and access to sexualand reproductive health information were discussed anddebated. Over 50 members of the Girls Leadership Clubs
participated in the debates as this became a more regular
activity. Moreover, ZNWL led sensitization activities with
104 duty bearers in five districts.

At the community level,
1,618 women, men, girls and boys
participated in awareness-raising
meetings that used drama toaddress issues such as SGBV,
including harmful traditional
practices.
The project also used community radio programmes andeducation and communication materials to disseminate
information on these issues. In Chibombo district, thetraditional leader reported that two girls had been
withdrawn from early marriages after their parents
attended a sensitization session with the leader.

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In Eswatini, amid political and civil unrest during the
pandemic which drove rising rates of teenage pregnancy
and GBV, the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse(SWAGAA) worked with a variety of stakeholders to
implement a project to address violence against womenand girls living with disabilities.

In 2022, the organization
worked with 719 community
members through community
dialogues focusing on gendernorms and attitudes. In
addition, 663 adolescent girls
and young women, including
656 women and girls living withdisabilities, were empoweredwith knowledge and awareness,
especially through the “Protect
Our Youth” clubs, of their rights;
risk reduction strategies; how to
respond to risk, social pressureand violence; and how to seek
support and resources.

These dialogues, covering topics from positive parenting
to social asset building, were delivered and moderated
by community facilitators who led the discussions withrespect, value neutrality and cultural sensitivity.

In addition, 52 community
facilitators and life mentors were
mobilized as agents of change
and supported with mentoringfrom SWAGAA to improve theirknowledge of intersectionality in
VAW/G and facilitation skills toensure interactive, participatory
and action-oriented dialogues.
The experience highlighted the long-term impact ofcommunity-led facilitation through which members’
project ownership is increased.

In India, the Martha Farrell Foundation improved theknowledge of 3,055 women domestic workers (WDWs) on
their rights under the Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace Act (2013). WDW leaders were identified acrossall 13 districts covered by the project who have continued
to actively mobilize their peers for advocacy and lobbying.

In 2022, WDW leaders led astate level consultation withprominent local authorities, civilsociety and union members toconsolidate recommendations on
strengthening the 2013 Act.
The recommendations led the Delhi Labour Department
to notify district authorities across Delhi to form andempower Local Committees, including nodal officers
and police personnel, to prevent sexual harassment inworkplaces and ensure timely redress for complainants.

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One of the findings from the UN Trust Fund’s working
paper “Feminist and Women’s Movements in the Context
of Ending Violence against Women and Girls – Implications
for Funders and Grant Makers” indicated that countries
with the strongest feminist movements tend to have morecomprehensive policies on VAW/G than those where such
movements are weaker or non-existent.9

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In the second year of implementation of its Strategic
Plan 2021-2025, the UN Trust Fund continued to amplify
support for its grantees in fostering the development,
implementation, accountability and advocacy forstrengthening EVAW and gender-responsive laws andpolicies. The aim was to ensure that these laws andpolicies not only address VAW/G but also create enabling
environments for CSOs/WROs and women’s human rights
defenders to continue their essential work and collectively
drive sustainable feminist movements.

In 2022, supported by
UN Trust Fund grantees,
1,544 local, sub-national or
national government institutions
had increased capacities
to design and implement
institutional reforms, strategies
and/or policies to preventor respond to VAW/G. Suchcapacities led to 329 guidelines,
protocols and/or standard
operating procedures tostrengthen, develop and/or
improve services to address
VAW/G across all levels.

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In Kenya in early 2022, CREAW supported Isiolo County, one of its project sites, toofficially launch its own gender policy to guide the mainstreaming of policies andprocesses to address VAW/G. The policy was drafted by CREAW and the Kenya
Women Parliamentarians Association. CREAW also teamed up with local women’s
rights groups to advocate for the policy’s adoption. The policy was the outcomeof a 2018 needs assessment by CREAW that gave insights into the gaps andchallenges faced by women and girls in Isiolo and Narok counties when it cameto fully realizing their rights. The policy sets out specific information on how theCounty Government of Isiolo can mainstream gender in all county functions toaddress a number of issues, including public participation and the representationof women and girls in all sectors; economic funds and equal opportunities for
women; and a mechanism for GBV prevention and response (such as safety nets,
shelters and economic justice).

“Our engagements with local champions who are vocal andwell trusted within the communities made sure that the Policy
was women driven. At the community level, the women
involved felt confident to share their views and challenges
that formed the basis of the policy. They also played a key rolein community mobilization and sensitization on gender-based
violence and policy dissemination.”– Wangechi Wachira,Executive Director of CREAW Kenya

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In Nigeria, advocacy by the Centre for Women Studies andIntervention (CWSI) led to the adoption of two customarylaws in the areas of intervention: the Buanchor customary
law for the elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting(FGM/C) and the Boki customary law on ending VAW/G,
which was developed and adopted by 30 communities in Boki.

CWSI also reported that in the
Bekwarra Local GovernmentArea, the paramount ruler, His
Royal Majesty Livinus OgbecheOdey, had for the first time in
the history of the Indigenous
people of Bekwarra included awoman, Queen Regina EchakaOgar, in the traditional decisionmaking Council.
This act alone was a milestone and had monumental
impact on efforts to reduce the high level of discriminationand exclusion of women in decision-making. Women in
the four local government areas impacted are freer toparticipate in social activities that provide interaction
with others in society or the community as a result of thechange in customary laws.

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In Honduras, where femicide rates are among the highest
in Latin America, the grantee Centro de Estudios de la
Mujer – Honduras (CEM-H) influenced behaviour changes
and challenged social norms through engaging with andtraining a variety of individuals, groups and networks.
Among them were, 189 teachers from 10 educational
centres who were trained on VAW/G prevention and referralmechanisms and 180 young people who participatedin feminist political schools and were trained on new
masculinities and advocacy spaces. Additionally, 30 women’s
networks increased their knowledge and their technicaland political capacities for advocacy and the elimination
of VAW/G.

CEM-H’s participation in nineinter-institutional roundtables
on femicides led to 12 proposals
for legislative reform, budgets,solidarity credit for women andpublic policies being presented to
President Xiomara Castro.

In the State of Palestine, the grantee Women’s Affairs
Technical Committee (WATC) engaged informal justiceactors, traditional leaders and civil society actors inopen dialogues and provided training on how to provide
comprehensive and appropriate services and uphold therights of survivors of VAW/G. As Islamic Sharia Law andtraditional values often take precedence in courts, Sharia
judges were trained on human rights and international legal
standards to complement their knowledge. Additionally,
networks of informal justice actors have been trained andmobilized to provide safe spaces, important information on
support services and to assist survivors seeking counselling
and representation.

Overall, WATC provided 24
training sessions reaching 121
informal justice actors and 29
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A total of 333 men and boys were
mobilized and had an increased
understanding of harmful genderunequal norms and stereotypes
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Across the UN Trust Fund portfolio, grantees worked tirelessly to meet the needs of those atparticular risk of VAW/G and of being left behind, such as women and girls living with disabilities;
Indigenous women and girls; lesbian, bisexual and transgender women; human rights defenders;and self-identified sex workers. Grantees also made conscious efforts to mainstream intersectional
approaches to empower and end violence against hardest-to-reach women and girls, thereby
nurturing and enriching feminist movements led by and for women and girl survivors and thoseat risk of VAW/G.
In Tunisia, the Centre of Arab Women for Training andResearch (CAWTAR) conducted research on national andinternational laws on sensory disabilities which informed
the design of a training kit focused on providing appropriate
care for women and girls with disabilities.

Additionally, CAWTAR engaged
architectural firms in visits andconsultations to advise on how to
improve two shelters for womensurvivors of violence with visualand hearing impairments.
CAWTAR also continued to develop the “SafeNess” reporting
mobile app, in collaboration with the Ministry of Family
Affairs, Women, Children and the Elderly, aimed at providing
a crucial tool for raising awareness of GBV and the rights
of survivors.

In Albania, Aleanca LGBT is leading a project on creating
safe spaces for lesbian, bisexual and transgender women,
promoting their economic inclusion and delivering quality
services.

In November 2022, the Albanianorganization organized, withfunding from the UN Trust Fundand in cooperation with theUnited Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) Albania,
a training session with
24 businesses and corporations on
the anti-discrimination standards
and policies these companies
should implement to secure an
inclusive recruitment process
and a safe work environment for
LGBTI employees.
Aleanca LGBT presented the data on discrimination in
employment that LGBTI community members faced in
2022. Several of the companies who took part expressed their
willingness to organize training with their staff on LGBTI
issues to create a work environment free of discriminationand stigma for LGBTI people.

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In Cameroon, RuWCED’s work with service providers todestigmatize people living with HIV/AIDS and highlight theimportance of adhering to antiretroviral therapy led to arise in the number of women living with HIV continuing
treatment from 70 per cent to over 90 per cent.

In Argentina, Fundación ANDHES responded to the needsof women migrant workers, who expressed concerns
about rising GBV against them, and lesbian, bisexual andtransgender women and the need for better tools andknowledge to support these groups.

Among the 438 women andgirls living with HIV reachedthroughout its entire project,
103 who are heads of family
were provided with seed capitaland training for economic
empowerment to better enable
them to maintain a healthy dietto support their treatment.

Despite the economic crisis,
which made it difficult tosustain the process, migrant
women workers acted aslegal counsellors and pointsof reference, accompanying
survivors of GBV and using
collective strategies andcommunity networks, such as
cooperatives, to generate work.
They noted that the project had enabled them to acquire
new tools and knowledge on rights and actions to enhancesurvivors’ access to justice, positioning them as active andpolitical subjects in their territories.
One of the women participants commented:“We know that even though there arelaws, sometimes we have to fight toassert our rights.”

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Conscience et Vie (COVIE), therecipient of a small UN Trust Fund
grant implementing a projectin Cote d’Ivoire to prevent andrespond to violence against selfidentified female sex workers(FSW), including those livingwith HIV/AIDS, created 193 “antiviolence community circles”
that reached a total of 396 FSW
in 30 areas in Abidjan.
In a country where sex work is illegal, FSW are atheighted risk of marginalization and violence andhence less likely to come forward to report violence.
COVIE’s initiative also led to 257 FSW (64 per cent of
FSW reached) now feeling informed and empowered
enough to report violence when they see/face it and toseek legal advice. In addition, 16 women and girls livingwith HIV/AIDS were provided with personal protective
equipment and anti-retroviral therapy and 24 survivorsof violence received essential services (medical,
psychosocial and legal).
Even though ending VAW/G has been acknowledged as
one of Peru’s priorities,10 there is limited awareness about
the abuse of women and girls with disabilities. Moreover,
women with disabilities also have limited access to services
that are available to survivors of violence. The grantee Paz
y Esperanza (Peace and Hope) supported women and girls
living with disabilities in the Lima, Cusco and San Martin
regions while lobbying for better specialist services withgovernment partners.

In 2022, Paz y Esperanza improved the knowledge of
265 women living with disabilities on different forms ofviolence, how to identify them and how to seek assistancefrom relevant institutional actors.

In addition, 110 women
living with disabilities were
empowered as agents of change
through participation in politicaladvocacy activities, which havethen led to the improved accessto the justice and protection
systems for women and girls
with disabilities, including theimplementation of the country’s
first inclusive police station in
Bocanegra and the adoptionof a protocol on addressing theneeds of women and girls withdisabilities who are survivors ofviolence in Cusco.
These results were achieved through Paz y Esperanza’s effort
to engage 1,040 civil servants and protection officials intraining to understand and identify the social barriers andrisk factors faced by women with disabilities, allowing themto adjust their care and response mechanisms.

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a UN Trust Fund grantee in Nigeria.
Capacity development forms part of the UN Trust Fund’svision set out in its Strategic Plan 2021-2025 with two
distinctive objectives, both of which are defined by theneeds and demands of grantees. One of the objectives isto accompany CSOs/WROs through all stages of a projectto effectively plan and manage grant funds; the other is
to support CSOs/WROs to develop or access additional
capacities needed for ending VAW/G programming, learningand knowledge management – all factors contributing
to quality project management in ending VAW/G work.
Grantees’ feedback played an important role in informing
the direction and improvement of the UN Trust Fund’s
capacity development activities in 2022.

During 2022, a total of
2,174 attendances (a 97 per centincrease compared to theprevious year) were registeredfor 22 webinars delivered in
32 sessions provided by the
UN Trust Fund.11
These sessions are geared to grantees at their relevant
project stage and are structured around key aspects ofending VAW/G project management, namely programming
principles, intersectionality, monitoring and evaluation,
operations and financial planning, audit preparation,
project modification and closure.

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Onboarding new cohort of grantees
In 2022, the UN Trust Fund welcomed a new cohort of37 organizations in 27 countries and territories in its 25th
grant-giving cycle. A total of 155 grantee focal points
attended a training package for new grantees in thefirst three months of project implementation – morethan double the minimum required number of two
focal points per organization. Overall, 95 per cent ofgrantee organizations (35 out of 37) fully complied with
the UN Trust Fund mandatory requirements to complete
three compulsory training components:

1. Project Management training;
2. The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation
and Abuse (PSEA) e-learning course;
3. The fraud awareness basic training.

Each grantee is also required to having a written fraud
prevention and fraud awareness policy in place, which ata minimum includes a system to prevent, detect, report,address and follow-up on fraud, corruption and otherwrongdoing. Grantees are also required to develop an
Anti-Fraud policy by the end of the first year of project
implementation.

By the end of 2022, a total of
98 per cent of grantees whose
project had been active for atleast a year after grant signing
had anti-fraud, PSEA and PSHA
policies in place.

Grantee organizations that do not have either a PSEA or aPrevention of Sexual Harassment and Abuse (PSHA) policy(or both), including internal complaints procedures forreporting and measures for investigating related allegations,are required to develop relevant policies within the firstyear of project implementation.

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Centre platform, to ensure knowledge retainment. A
total of 97 focal points from grantee organizations
completed this test, which included questions on UN
Trust Fund reporting requirements and its financial
rules and procedures, among other things.

In the annual post-training
survey for grantees in
the new cohort of the25th cycle, 54 per cent ofrespondents indicated thatthey fully retained and used
the learning after the training
for the implementation
and/or management of the
UN Trust Fund supported
project;

In 2022, the UN Trust Fund continued its practiceof providing tailored support to grantees througha portfolio manager who assisted and guided themthroughout the three-year project life cycle of the
UN Trust Fund grant. This approach enabled grantees
not only to share information about local context,
emerging needs and evolving challenges, but also
to develop grantees’ organizational capacities toundertake future programming beyond the UN TrustFund supported project.

the remaining 42 per cent of respondents said that they
had partially retained and used the learning.

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Continuous investment in capacity development
The UN Trust Fund continued to provide ongoing support to all
active grantees. This included refresher sessions on reporting
project data, procurement procedures and recommendations,as well as training on how to run external evaluations.
Capacity development investment by the UN Trust Fund
plays a catalytic role in grantees’ ability to effectively
resource their work to end VAW/G. The grantee Beyond
Borders, a human rights organization leading a projectto address violence against women and girls living withdisabilities in Haiti, shared:“Beyond Borders has put in place more
systems and adapted more universally
adhered-to protocols that position theorganization to receive other sources of
support from larger entities who bringcertain administrative/operational
expectations as a precursor forconsideration.”In the 2022 annual grantee survey,

55 per centof respondents reported that their organization was able
to mobilize additional funding to continue, replicate orscale up either the project funded by the UN Trust Fundor other projects working to end VAW/G.

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Among these, 67 per cent reported that this was flexible,
core and/or long-term funding. One grantee reported:“flexible funding means that the funds can be redirected forthe needs of the beneficiaries… like recently in the pandemic,
it enabled us to provide emergency interventions.”
In 2022, the UN Trust Fund led its first webinar on
communicating the results of work to end VAW/G throughthe use of social media, providing an introduction andupdates on the algorithms of popular platforms. The
webinar also facilitated peer-to-peer exchange on goodpractices in different contexts to amplify survivors’ voices
to support grantees’ efforts not only in advocacy andoutreach but also in mobilizing resources for initiatives
to end VAW/G. Participants expressed recognition of
the longer-term impact of these capacity development
activities in different and practical ways. For example,
one participant said:“We do not have a monitoring andevaluation tool for the organization. We
only utilize funders’ requests when reporting
and we feel that developing a tool of ourown would assist the organization to better
lobby, advocate and strategize.”
A survey of training participants indicated that over 77 percent found capacity development activities very usefulor useful. Grantees also provided detailed feedback on
their needs, particularly small WROs, such as navigating
donor systems and reporting on the impact of localized
work to end VAW/G.

In 2022, for the first time,
the UN Trust Fund provided
calibrated support in the forms
of webinars, written guidance
and individual accompanimentto preselected applicants while
they developed and refined theirproject proposal.
This new approach ensured projects’ clarity in terms ofarea of focus, forms of VAW/G addressed, appropriate
strategies and their impact in the specific project context. In
addition, the individual accompaniment component createdan opportunity for portfolio managers to form strong
partnerships with grantees from the outset and extend
support in the finalization of the project document andcontinue the support in the development of indicators. The
webinars and guidance focused on topics such as resultsbased management, financial planning, intersectionality,and programming principles on ending VAW/G. In responseto the applicants’ requests, Arabic language interpretation
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the UN Trust Fund and its grantees continued to redefine
donor-grantee partnerships to bolster global feminist
movements. As one grantee representative noted:“The process of communication was very
good between us and the Trust Fund as it
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In 2022, the UN Trust Fund capitalized on its convening potential facilitating exchange among
practitioners to codify insights in practice-based solutions for ending VAW/G as a building
foundation for achieving the SDGs. Alongside various UN Trust Fund-generated knowledge products
and knowledge exchange webinars, the SHINE hub, produced by the UN Trust Fund and developedin collaboration with the Spotlight Initiative, offers the combined power of a virtual exchange
space, convening platform and multilingual tool in more than 50 languages to inform global
policy, programming and advocacy on ending VAW/G. In the nine months since its introduction,
SHINE welcomed 1,445 registered users, five times the target number, and opened six discussions
that attracted active engagements from practitioners representing CSOs/WROs globally.

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8.1 Prevention Series
The UN Trust Fund, in collaboration with 70 grantees andexternal researchers, co-produced the practice-basedknowledge Prevention Series of 10 knowledge briefs
titled “Learning from Practice: Lessons from Civil Society
Organizations on Prevention of Violence against Womenand Girls”. The briefs explored 10 pathways to prevention,
validated through global consultations with more than 250

ending VAW/G practitioners, and set the stage for continuous
learning and dialogue on SHINE. The Prevention Series waslaunched through eight webinars between November
2021 and June 2022 and also through the UN Trust Fund’s
first-ever eight-part podcast series, guided by the voices ofgrantee organizations implementing prevention projects.

The 2022 grantee survey shows that during the year 95 per cent of the grantees
benefited from the knowledge products developed by the UN Trust Fund, including
the Annual Report 2021, the Prevention Series, SHINE and the Evaluation Library.

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These diverse formats of knowledge products show that alearning journey grounded in mutual enablement, inclusionand participation will continue to support UN Trust Fund
efforts to honour practitioners’ lived experience, knowledge
and more.

Accompanied by intensifiedsocial media promotion, thewebinars reached over 39,700
people on Twitter alone andthe podcast was placed ashigh as #15 on US non-profit
podcasts and in the top five and
10 in various countries, namely
Australia, Egypt, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands and the United
Kingdom, during the threemonths following its virtual
launch in September 2022.

The UN Trust Fund-commissioned study on “Feminist andWomen’s Movements in the Context of Ending Violenceagainst Women and Girls – Implications for Funders andGrant Makers (an External Literature Review)” set out an
overview of mutually enabling connections between ending
VAW/G programming led by WROs and building feminist
movements. The study provided a conceptual framing foranalysing grant-makers’ contribution to building feminist
movements as a stepping stone for the UN Trust Fund
Strategic Plan 2021-2025 commitment to support inclusive
feminist movements.
In 2022, the UN Trust Fund met its first milestone in the“Learning from Practice: Prevention Series” when it held
its final webinar introducing and exploring the 10th andfinal theme of the series. This series as well as the UN
Trust Fund’s knowledge products, introduced throughout
the year, have since become important entry points andopportunities for the UN Trust Fund to continue advocating
for practice-based knowledge led by CSOs/WROs at
different international convenings. Investments made infacilitating conversations with and among grantees haveconcretized the role of the UN Trust Fund in facilitatingexchange among practitioners towards solutions for ending
VAW/G as a building foundation for achieving the SDGs.

A total of 97% of respondents to the 2022 grantee survey found the knowledge
exchange webinars and events organized by the UN Trust Fund to be inclusive
in terms of languages (interpretation/translation) availability, access and special
arrangements for those with disabilities, diversity and representation of participants.
One of the grantees acknowledged the UN Trust Fund’s efforts in inclusive knowledge
exchange: “Overall, we found the knowledge exchange events and webinars to be
useful in terms of the information provided and the opportunities for learning andnetworking. These events were also inclusive in terms of language, availability andaccessibility.”

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8.2. International convenings
As part of its commitment to creating convening spaces and amplifying the voices of activists,
women human rights defenders and practitioners, the UN Trust Fund organized and attended
14 global convenings and facilitated the participation of grantee representatives in at least 19,
including both virtual and in-person meetings. These provided opportunities to highlight thecritical role WROs play in meeting the needs of women and girl survivors and those at risk ofviolence. The following summarizes a few highlights in 2022:• In March, in collaboration with the Spotlight Initiative
Secretariat, the UN Trust Fund organized a special
event, “Resiliency to Crises: Lessons from Civil Society
Organizations in the Prevention of Violence against
Women and Girls”. The event amplified the voices ofactivists and celebrated the resilience of CSOs who
navigated overlapping crises during and beyond
COVID-19, while acting as first responders to survivors
of VAW/G. Participants voiced a collective call for donor
support that recognizes and sufficiently resources thevital work of CSOs/WROs and their ability to adapt
to changing contexts. The event also introduced theglobal knowledge exchange platform SHINE.

• In September, the UN Trust Fund joined a panel
discussion at the IDEAS Conference 2022, “Power of
evaluation: Influencing decision making for a betterand more equal world” to share lessons learned andthe challenges encountered when implementing
participatory evaluation to contribute to an inclusive
and transformative evaluation process throughout
ending VAW/G projects.

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in a three-day Spotlight Initiative Global Learning
Symposium (16-18 September 2022) to share learningfrom projects funded by the Spotlight Initiative.
These grantees also attended the full five days of theSexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum (19-23
September). During the Global Learning Symposium,the 11 CSO representatives discussed their experienceand lessons learned during project implementation andshared their achievements and challenges, adaptations
and experiences of organizational resilience during
the COVID-19 pandemic. They emphasized theirappreciation for the funding flexibility and continuous
support received during the pandemic and for theopportunity to exchange knowledge and good practices
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the UN Trust Fund’s Special Funding Window for
projects to prevent and end violence against womenand girls living with disabilities. Among the issues
presented were lessons learned regarding engaging
faith and traditional actors to prevent VAW/G; theUN Trust Fund’s small grant modality to reinforce
efforts to empower small, women-led and women’s
rights organizations leading projects to address
VAW/G globally; and the UN Trust Fund’s work onpractice-based knowledge. A study by the UN TrustFund was shared at the SVRI Forum, highlighting theimportance of including CSOs as leaders in prevention
research, policy and programming from the local to
the global level. Ensuring a permanent and leading“seat at the table” for CSOs, especially WROs, in all
violence prevention discourses is a key mechanism for
democratizing and decolonizing the evidence base on
programming to end VAW/G.

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• In November, the UN Trust Fund chaired a session ofpromising practices on primary prevention in Indiaand introduced its “Prevention Series: Learning from
Practice” at a multi-stakeholder workshop on “WhatWorks for Prevention of Violence against Women in
India”, organized by UN Women. The UN Trust Fund
highlighted in particular the intersectional approachto preventing VAW/G, using evidence from its practicebased knowledge codified by CSOs/WROs to inform
successful practices in programming to end VAW/G.
• During the year, six in-person and virtual country
and region-focused convenings organized by the UN
Trust Fund provided opportunities for all grantees andpartners to exchange ideas as well as to turn nationaland regional synergies into actions. For example, in
December 2022, a virtual convening with UN TrustFund grantees in Armenia and UN Women Europe andCentral Asia Regional Office provided an opportunity for
dialogue and for grantees to reflect on the challenges
and opportunities to jointly promote standards andprotocols on preventing and responding to domestic
violence in Armenia. The convening offered a space
to discuss investment in institutional resilience andwhether it makes for better programming to end VAW/G
in times of crisis, as the grantees continued to adapt theirways of working in post-pandemic and conflict settings.
The grantees welcomed the space for discussion andrecommended continuing the conversation.

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InitiativeIn partnership with the UN Trust Fund, the Spotlight
Initiative, a global, multi-year partnership between theEuropean Union and the United Nations to eliminate
all forms of VAW/G by 2030, funded single-country andmulti-country projects across 15 countries in sub-SaharanAfrica and Latin America. Funded projects focused onstrengthening and supporting WROs and autonomous CSOs,
in line with Outcome 6 of the Spotlight Initiative Theoryof Change. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic,
55 grantees in sub-Saharan Africa, including 20 who received
additional funding to further institutional strengthening forcrisis response and maintain or adapt existing interventions
to end VAW/G, continued implementation. The focus of thisfunding, disbursed under the Spotlight Initiative in 2020,
was particularly at-risk and marginalized women and girls.
In 2022, the 55 UN Trust Fund grantees funded under the
Spotlight Initiative in 2022 reached a total

29,454,578
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women and girls.

This number includes primary beneficiaries (women andgirls directly benefiting or involved as partners), secondary
beneficiaries (people involved as partners) and indirect
beneficiaries people reached by projects. The information
gathered by the UN Trust Fund enabled data on grantee
achievements to be disaggregated by sex/gender or as“unknown” when disaggregation was not possible (forexample in relation to indirect beneficiaries reachedthrough public awareness-raising activities where it may
be challenging to disaggregate by gender).
UN Trust Fund grantees under the Spotlight Initiative
specifically focused on reaching women and girls experiencing
intersecting forms of violence and discrimination with theaim to leave no one behind. For example, in the context
of rising economic instability and food insecurity driven
by conflicts and other crises, 51,575 women in the lowest
income group received support from the 55 grantees.
During 2022, this cohort of grantees directly supported
and empowered a total of

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9.1 Investing in movements
Throughout 2022, UN Trust Fund grantees under the Spotlight
Initiative continued working with local communities toprevent and end VAW/G, through jointly strengthening
feminist movements that drive longer-term changes in the
lives of women and girls, especially those at risk of being left
furthest behind, through laws and policies.
In Uganda, the grantee Integrated Disabled Women Activities(IDIWA) supported the establishment of the Busoga GenderBased Violence and Disability Rights Network (GBVDR NET), a
network of feminist WROs, groups and associations of women
living with disabilities, and media outlets, to promote catalytic,transformative, systemic change which addresses the root
barriers preventing gender equality, rather than seeking tochange women to adapt to discriminatory systems. Members’
knowledge of how networks operate informed strategicplanning for the period 2023-2027 through various thematic
working groups including: Disability, Gender and Human
Rights; Sexual and Reproductive Rights; and Livelihoods.
For example, one of the members, Reproductive Health
Uganda spearheaded medical camps and provided treatment
for sexually transmitted infections and cancer screening
for women and girls with disabilities. Women living withdisabilities supported by IDIWA have successfully advocatedfor their inclusion in COVID-19 recovery through anti-poverty
programmes in the country.

In Argentina, 1,140 women survivors of violence were
empowered and equipped with the knowledge andautonomy to claim their rights by women volunteering incommunity referral mechanisms who received training fromthe grantee Fundación para la Promoción de la Economía
Social y Cooperativa (FUNDECO). With the lifting of thestrictest movement restrictions, the sudden possibility ofsimultaneously carrying out virtual and in-person trainings
became an opportunity that boosted the quantitative results
and enabled the expansion of the project’s reach beyond thecapital, as originally intended. As a result, 785 women survivorsof violence participated in capacity-building sessions tobecome volunteers in their own community referral structures.
In another part of Argentina, the grantee Centro deIntercambio y Servicios para el Cono Sur Argentina (CISCSA)
created safe spaces for 123 women who were survivors or
at risk of violence to participate and advocate for “women’s
rights to the city” in various “Ciudades Feministas” (Feminist
Cities) proposals, voicing their needs in the design of public
policies for safer public spaces. An additional 768 women who
were survivors or at risk of violence were trained on VAW/G,
women’s rights and ending VAW/G in public spaces, while
87 community members were trained on urban planningand its intersection with VAW/G.

The project has helped some womenand girls living with disabilities establish
household income generating activities andsmall-scale businesses, supporting theirrecovery from the effects of the pandemic.

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Using the advocacy skills gained through the project
implemented by the Women’s Legal Resource Centre(WOLREC) in the Southern Region of Malawi, community
women successfully demanded new infrastructure that is
effectively reducing the risks of SGBV and creating a safer
environment for women and girls – including by reducing
the distances needed to travel to school or to obtain drinking
water. Through meetings with duty bearers, women promoted
the building of a girls’ hostel for the Mpatsa Community
Day Secondary School so that girls do not need travel long
distances to school, journeys that put them at risk of VAW/G.
The hostel, which accommodates 200 girls, has helped create
a better and safe environment for girls.

In Balaka district, three boreholes
were drilled providing safe water
points which meant women andgirls no longer had to travel long
distances to fetch water, helping
create a safer environment for
women and girls.
The three boreholes are serving 750 households(approximately 5,250 people). In Nsanje, the introductionof a piped water system has also helped reduce the risk
of VAW/G. This greater access to safe drinking water isestimated to be benefiting more than 3,000 people.

In the DRC, schoolgirls trained and coached by mentors froma project led by the grantee Fund for Congolese Women
became well-respected leaders and champions for ending
VAW/G in their communities. This youth-led component in
the project created a ripple effect in other schools in thearea, resulting in 20 school clubs conducting training andorganized sensitizations in their respective schools andcommunities and even invitations to organize sessions atother schools as part of extracurricular activities or during
relevant international days. This approach of empoweringcommunity champions enabled schoolgirls to implement
their savviness through the use of different communication
channels such as radio, mass sensitization and peer-to-peertalks to influence their peers and community members to
advocate for girls’ safety and dignity.

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9.2 Consolidating learning from Spotlight Initiative implementation
In December 2022, a number of Spotlight Initiative large
grantees concluded their projects and have received support
from the UN Trust Fund to produce a quality final project
evaluation. The UN Trust Fund held consultations with
grantees in order to co-design the evaluation questions
with the cohort, which then became the basis for evaluation
guidance for large grants. The aim was to ensure thatthe evaluations were utility-focused, meet the needs ofgrantees and their beneficiaries and effectively measure
and attribute results, particularly of the movement building
aspect of their work. All decentralized evaluations for large
grantees are expected to be completed in 2023.

Apart from evaluations, the UN Trust Fund has also coproduced knowledge products for two small grant grantees
in Africa (from a cohort of 44) that summarizes the resultsof and lessons learned from the project, with the aim ofcontributing knowledge to the evidence base on ending
VAW/G, for use by other practitioners and partners. Theseevaluations and the project summaries produced willserve as a useful learning tool to inform the next stageof their projects, contribute to the knowledge base on
movement building and help raise awareness for continued
investments in ending VAW/G. The knowledge produced
through these will contribute to the evaluation of the entire
Spotlight Initiative portfolio, which will be initiated in 2023.

For small grants (nine in totalout of the cohort of 35), in linewith the UN Trust Fund’s policy of
centralized evaluations for small
grants, the UN Trust Fund is coproducing a meta-analysis withthem, focusing on movementbuilding and aiming to extract
lessons learned and bestpractices across this cohort.

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documented by grantees underscored the need to recognize
and centre the voices of CSOs/WROs, who are the mostimpacted and closest to the realities on the ground, in theending VAW/G ecosystem. The UN Trust Fund’s “Learningfrom Practice: Prevention Series” shows that a learningjourney grounded in mutual enablement, inclusion andparticipation will continue to enable the UN Trust Fund tohonour practitioners’ lived experience, knowledge and more.

Since its introduction in March 2022, SHINE has emerged
as an important tool that feeds into the objectives of
UN Trust Fund’s knowledge journey: inform decision-making
for better polices to end VAW/G; amplify CSOs/WROs’ own
expertise and practice-based knowledge; and co-create
evidence of what works and critically how to end VAW/G.

SHINE has significant potential
for strengthening the UN Trust
Fund’s unique positioning,leverage and convening role in
the ending VAW/G ecosystemand therefore benefit all its civilsociety partners.

In the context of protracted and overlapping crises, grantees
showed the importance of expanding and strengthening
the capacity of local alliances and feminist networks inmeeting the needs of VAW/G survivors, while responding
to contextual instabilities and uncertainties. The evidence
is that feminist movements are key to ending VAW/G
and countries and territories with the strongest feminist
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to build on its investment inlong-term, core and flexible
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facilitating more exchanges, enabling more collaborations
at all levels, and exploring context-driven approaches toending VAW/G among CSOs/WROs are central to the UN
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9.3 Institutional strengthening
Twenty grantees in sub-Saharan Africa received additional funding from the Spotlight Initiative
towards institutional strengthening for crisis response and maintaining or adapting existing
interventions to end VAW/G during the COVID-19.
For example, in Nigeria, the grantee Alliances for Africa(AFA) organized trainings that enabled its staff members to
improve strategic planning and monitoring and evaluation(M&E) in order to ensure its programme was effective inreaching the most marginalized women and girls.

Many Spotlight Initiative grantees beyond the 20
grantees from sub-Saharan Africa also continued to work
to strengthen the capacities of partners to influence
positive progress through social media and traditional
communications channels.

The strategic planningtraining analysed
the organization’s
strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities andchallenges related to
management, service
delivery and individual
staff capacity.

In Argentina, the grantee CISCSA established and fosteredpartnerships with local media journalists through virtual
gatherings with CSOs/WROs and LBTQI+ organizations, aswell as through training in different workshops on VAW/G
and referral mechanisms. Seven journalists and media
representatives were trained on VAW/G and reporting
on VAW/G in public spaces. Similarly, the grantee Public
Interest Law Center (PILC) in Chad motivated the media tocommit to speaking out against VAW/G and to respecting
survivors. In total, 45 journalists participated and are raisingawareness of VAW/G themselves while 116 paralegals agreed
to work pro-bono with the project, including providing
pre-counselling sessions to women survivors of violence.

The M&E training was tailored to ensure that staff members
could create their individual plans in alignment withthe organization’s goals. Through these trainings, an
M&E framework and a strategic plan for 2022-2027 weredeveloped in a collaborative process. Those trainings
and plans are critically contributing to AFA’s institutional
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In 2022, there were emerging movements at sub-regional
level regarding programmatic collaboration in countries
and territories with common social issues to tackle VAW/G
through different entry points to effect institutionalchange and through movement building. Two UN TrustFund grantees, Sonke in South Africa and SWAGAA in
Eswatini, and co-partner MOSAIC implemented a multicountry project with Spotlight Initiative funding to improvepolicy implementation and strengthen coalitions for joint
advocacy to end VAW/G.

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forms of SGBV. Additionally,
the Bethany Projectcontinued its awarenessraising activities with116 community leadersand ending VAW/G service
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In Central America, over 100 women joined CEM-H’sconvening “Rebellions, knowledge and practices in thecurrent geopolitical context to eliminate VAW/G” (Rebeldías,saberes y prácticas en el actual contexto geopolítico paraeliminar la VCMN) to initiate collective feminist strategic
thinking to reconsider the territorial approaches on ending
VAW/G in Central America. This intergenerational andintersectional feminist meeting encouraged knowledge
exchange and the sharing of experiences and new
perspectives on regional approaches to safeguarding
the lives of women and girls in the face of economic andpolitical crises, shrinking civic spaces and the rise of hatecrimes and VAW/G in the region.

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Ghana and South Africa implemented by INERELA+. In all
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mixed gender workshops, issues of challenging harmful
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10. Looking forward
During 2022, grantees’ results, achievements and lessons
learned continued to play a vital role in informing, refining
and enhancing the UN Trust Fund’s adaptations, support
and grant-giving practices. This ever stronger and closer
collaboration is ensuring that the UN Trust Fund is in aposition to provide timely and adequate responses to theneeds of CSOs/WROs leading essential work in ending
VAW/G.

Through its 26th Call for Proposals,
launched in November 2022,
the UN Trust Fund renewed its
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Central to this approach is responding to the emerging
needs and contextual challenges voiced by CSOs/WROs
by recognizing the need to intentionally invest in building
the preparedness and organizational resilience of grantees
as key drivers of transformative change towards ending
VAW/G.
The UN Trust Fund will continue to fulfil this commitment
through the provision of increased core and flexible funding,capacity development and budget for self- and collective
care. In addition, the special focus on contexts of protracted
and overlapping crises aims to expose the underutilized
potential of CSOs/WROs to improve the lives of women andgirls whose needs would otherwise have remained unmet.

11. THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS
As of December 2022, contributors to the UN Trust Fund included:• the Governments of: Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia,
Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and theUnited States of America.

Support was also received from:• the UN-Women National Committees of Australia, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America• the Spotlight Initiative partnership between the European Union and the United Nations and• partners including, SOKO Inc., Conscious Step and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund.

Thank you to all the generous donors and contributors for their ongoing, committed support to the UN
Trust Fund’s mission. Your sustained efforts to effectively resource work on ending VAW/G have enabled
the implementation of 186 projects in 2022 that delivered the results presented in this report.
We are also using this opportunity to express gratitude to the generous individuals around the world, such as L. KatterJackson, who supported the UN Trust Fund in 2022.
A special thank you to UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman for her continuous support of the UN TrustFund and the cause of ending VAW/G.

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