Publications
The UN Trust Fund produces publications including its Annual Report, report to the Commission on the Status of Women and fact sheets. You can find these in the directory below. More
Learning from practice: Training for Behaviour Change to prevent violence against women and girls
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Designing effective training takes time and effort; it requires an iterative and adaptive process that is time and resource intensive. From the perspective of behaviour change, training can have enormous strategic value and be a critical pathway to prevent violence against women and girls.
Learning from practice: Adolescent-focused approaches to prevent violence against women and girls
Friday, September 24, 2021
Adolescent-focused approaches as a means of preventing violence against women and girls are an important area for intervention and research. Adolescence is a critical time for both boys and girls, but adolescent girls in particular face new gendered risks at this life stage, because of their increased vulnerabilities to various forms of violence and harmful practices.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Mobilizing women as agents of change in their own lives is key for projects working to prevent violence against women and girls. As “community facilitators”, women beneficiaries of projects are a crucial link to the broader community of women that prevention projects need to engage with.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Exploring intersectional approaches when designing and implementing projects is critical to preventing violence against women and girls, and key to realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 “Leave no one behind”.
Learning from practice: Community mobilization to prevent violence against women and girls
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Mobilizing communities is critical to preventing violence against women and girls. However, deeper understanding is needed of: the processes and factors that facilitate effective community mobilization in various contexts; how the changing dynamics of social contexts influence community mobilization programmes; and how programmes adapt in response.
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Faith-based actors and traditional actors are increasingly recognized as key to preventing violence against women and girls and crucial to realizing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 5 (achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls by 2030). Their reach and influence cannot be ignored, especially given their unique position in households and communities.
UN Trust Fund Annual Report 2020
Thursday, June 24, 2021
On its 25th anniversary, the UN Trust Fund launches Annual Report for 2020, which highlights the results of funded civil society and women’s rights organizations despite the challenges of COVID-19. During 2020, UN Trust Fund grantees adapted swiftly to help protect and support women and girls during the unprecedented global crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Monday, June 7, 2021
The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women’s (UN Trust Fund) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 is grounded in the right of all women and girls to live free of violence. It seeks to achieve this goal through global solidarity and partnerships that enable civil society organizations, especially women’s rights organizations, to deliver survivor-centred and demand-driven initiatives to help feminist movements grow globally.
UN Trust Fund Report to the Commission on the Status of Women 2021
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 2021.
Monday, October 19, 2020
In 2020, the UN Trust Fund engaged an independent, external evaluation team to produce a meta-analysis based on 30 high-quality external evaluations commissioned by its grantees in 26 countries covering projects implemented between 2015-2019.