UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women
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Institution : |
UNIFEM |
Funding Programs : |
UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women |
Geographical Focus : |
Developing Countries |
Description : | Most of the 2006 Trust Fund grantees will support the implementation of a new law or policy through a combination of training for government institutions, the judiciary and law enforcement; advocacy for increased budgetary resources; popular awareness raising; and capacity building for civil society groups to demand accountability. Initiatives to that end will be carried out in Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Grenada, India, Liberia, Mongolia, Niger, Paraguay, Rwanda, Somalia, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe. In Cameroon, a Trust Fund grant will support advocacy for the adoption of the Family Code that includes provisions to protect women from gender-based violence.
Initiatives in Bulgaria, India, Liberia and Ukraine will work specifically with local or community-based justice delivery systems to build capacity to deliver on new laws and policies. Where relevant, Trust Fund grantees will also engage with problems of potential conflict or disconnect between national laws and the rules of community justice systems, for example, by reviewing court proceedings to identify obstacles in applying existing legal provisions. A third group of grantees will work to ensure that especially disadvantaged or marginalized groups of women equally benefit from the protections offered by new laws. In Bulgaria, the focus will be on women and girls with disabilities; in Bolivia and Ecuador as well as Guatemala, work will be carried out in indigenous Kichwa and Mayan communities; in Nicaragua, an initiative will use the Trust Fund grant to focus on communities along the Atlantic Coast where response rates to abuse cases are particularly poor. |
Who can apply : |
Groups with initiatives in developing countries that are addressing gender-based violence. |
Language : |
No Information |
URL : |
http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/violence_against_wome...
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