United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women
Call for proposals 2017Date:
The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women(“UN Trust Fund”) is a global multi-lateral mechanism supporting national efforts to endone of the most widespread human rights violations in the world. Established in 1996 byUN General Assembly Resolution 50/1661, the UN Trust Fund is administered by the UnitedNations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) on behalfof the United Nations System.
The movement to prevent and end violence against women and girls has made enormousstrides since the UN Trust Fund’s establishment over 20 years ago. However, despite clearprogress, violence against women remains a human rights crisis affecting girls and womenall over the world, regardless of class, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability status orculture. Such violence is at the extreme of a spectrum of discrimination that denies womenand girls a whole range of rights and is one of the key cross-cutting challenges identifiedin Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the SDGs),adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015.
Applications from women’s rights, women-led, and small women’s organizations will beprioritized, in recognition of them being the driving force of the ending violence againstwomen agenda, as well as being at the forefront of reaching women and girls survivorsat the grassroots level.
Read the Call for proposals 2017.