The UN Trust Fund Annual Report 2024 is out!
In 2024, the UN Trust Fund supported 180 civil society and women’s rights organizations across 74 countries, reaching over 14.7 million people and directly supporting more than 7.7 million women and girls. Learn more
In Focus: Countering Backlash against Women and Girls’ Rights
Civil society and women's rights organizations around the world are facing escalating and dangerous backlash. Learn how civil society and women's rights organizations demonstrate remarkable resilience in the face of this new challenge and continue to support women and girls. Learn more
In Focus: 27th Grant Giving Cycle (2023)
The UN Trust Fund awarded USD 16 million to 36 civil society and women's rights organizations implementing initiatives to address to gender-based violence across 41 countries and territories, and USD 2.34 million to 8 initiatives in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa under the ACT programme. Learn more
"Small and Mighty": a new UN Trust Fund podcast!
Listen to the voices of small civil society and women's rights organizations working to prevent and end violence against women, despite limited resources and emerging challenges. Learn more
Highlights
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Panelists at the Human Rights Council side event organized by the UN Trust Fund, OHCHR and UN Women in Geneva on 25 June 2025. Credit: UN Trust Fund
Voices of Resilience from the Frontlines: Advancing Efforts to End Violence against Women and Girls in the Context of Backlash

On 25 June 2025, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and UN Women co-hosted a side event during the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council.

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Transforming lives, ending violence: Stories of strength and solidarity in 2024

Explore the journeys of five women and girls whose lives were touched by the initiatives led by UN Trust Fund grantee partners in different regions of the world and different contexts.

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Courtesy of the Greater Women Initiative for Health and Rights (Nigeria).
Writing their own stories: Self-identified sex workers in Nigeria

In Nigeria, the Greater Women initiative for Health and Rights is changing the narrative around sex workers and ensuring they have access to specialist support services.

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Group photo of the UN Trust Fund's capacity development workshop in Brazil in 2025
Collective Learning Workshop 2025: Centring Community and Care

From 7-11 April 2025, the UN Trust Fund’s newest grantee partners joined the annual Collective Learning Workshop, which supports them to start up their initiatives and enables them to share experiences, network and foster a sense of community.

Strategic Plan 2021⁠–⁠2025
UN Trust Fund Annual Report 2024

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