2025 | UN Trust Fund

The UN Trust Fund's model combines advocacy and financing with convening, learning and evidence generation. In 2025, this included an independent meta-analysis of evaluations completed across its 2021–2025 Strategic Plan, which confirmed that sustained investment in civil society delivers measurable results, including shifts in harmful social norms, improved access to survivor services, more responsive justice systems and stronger, more resilient women's organizations. The meta-analysis found that 100 per cent of initiatives reviewed demonstrated effectiveness, and nearly two thirds showed measurable impact on violence against women and girls, including in some cases reductions in rates of violence and prevention of harmful norms. This pattern is consistent over more than a decade of UN Trust Fund support. 

The UN Trust Fund also continued to expand its Evaluation Library, as a shared learning asset for partners and the broader ecosystem to end violence against women and girls. It now houses nearly 200 evaluations in English, French and Spanish, 25 added in 2025 alone and is home to one of the largest repositories on what works on EVAW/G.  Finally, 2025 was also a crucial year of funding cuts and backlash, and through the year, the UN Trust Fund continued to elevate how feminist CSOs are confronting growing political resistance, shrinking civic space, and the rollback of hard-won progress.