This comprehensive study is the first part of a broader external study to understand and enhance the resilience of civil society organizations and women’s rights organizations, especially those dedicated to ending violence against women and girls.. 

This meta-analysis covers 18 projects led by small grassroots women's rights organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund through the Small Grants modality – a special funding modality to support small women-led organizations focusing on ending violence against women, which often have limited access to resources and funding.

This meta-analysis covers nine projects led by small grassroots women's rights organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund and EU/UN Spotlight Initiative through the Small Grants modality – a special funding modality to support small women-led organizations focusing on ending violence against women, which often have limited access to resources and funding.

In 2020, the UN Trust Fund developed a five-year Strategic Plan 2021-2025, which set out its vision, mission, and strategic approaches for the period. In August 2023, a mid-term review (MTR) was commissioned by the UN Trust Fund to take stock of results and learnings and to guide decision-making for the remaining two and a half years of the Strategic Plan implementation. 

In 2023, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women actively supported the implementation of 191 bold, life-changing initiatives aimed at preventing and responding to violence against women and girls in 68 countries and territories, across five regions. These initiatives reached more than 15 million people, including at least 7,723,854 women and girls.

The third paper of the disability, inclusion and intersectionality series expands critical reflection on work to end violence against women and girls living with disabilities by drawing on the experience of 62 projects funded by the UN Trust Fund that identified women and girls with disabilities as primary beneficiaries.  

Addressing Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities: Results from the UN Trust Fund’s Special Window 2018-2023

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 2023.

Building Power in Feminist and Women’s Movements to End Violence against Women and Girls: Learning from Civil Society Organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.

The paper shows that the special window supported grantees to work at multiple levels of the socio-ecological model to prevent violence and that their programming had impact at all levels for refugees and/or forcibly displaced women and girls.  

The Final Synthesis Review provides a set of extracted, highly summarized findings across the 10 pathways to preventing violence against women and girls. It collates key lessons from the 10 briefs as well as the Special Edition on COVID-19, while providing recommendations and feedback on the series.

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization UNABU: Umuryango Nyarwanda w’Abagore Bafite Ubumuga (The Rwandan Organization of Women with Disabilities in English) with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.  

The synthesis review addresses this gap by taking a qualitative, grounded approach to identify practice-based knowledge and lessons learned. It contains key insights and lessons from the experiences of 13 diverse civil society and women’s rights organizations funded by the UN Trust Fund’s special window on ending violence against women and girls who are refugees and/or forcibly displaced between 2016-2022.  

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization (CSO) Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia (CDIA) in Paraguay from 2018 to 2021 with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization Ciencia Social Alternativa A.C. (CSAAC) from 2018 to 2021 with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.  

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization Centre for the Social Rights of Migrants (CENDEROS) from 2018 to 2021 with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization Center for Research on Democratic Process (CRDP) with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.  

This paper summarizes the three-year project implemented by the civil society organization Women Challenged to Challenge with a small grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.  

In 2022, 186 organizations in 70 countries and territories, supported by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, reached 47,578,975 people, including 24,408,861 women and girls, through various initiatives to bring about positive, transformative change and end all forms of violence against women and girls.

This synthesis review contains key insights and lessons from the experiences of 22 diverse civil society and women’s rights organizations in various contexts that were supported by the UN Trust Fund special window to end violence against women and girls with disabilities between 2018 and 2023.