Improving access for women and girls to essential, specialist, safe and adequate multisectoral services is a core strategic priority of the UN Trust Fund, and one of the three outcome areas in its Strategic Plan 2021-2025.
Between 2021 and 2024, an average of 70% of initiatives supported by the UN Trust Fund per year included strategies to prevent violence against women.
During that period, a total of 218,147 women and girls used specialist services to heal and recover from violence, and 41,615 individual providers improved service for survivors and women and girls at risk.
In Egypt, UN Trust Fund partners addressed growing, critical gaps in services for refugee women and girls primarily from Sudan, Eritrea and South Sudan. In 2024, some 520 young mothers – many of them survivors of violence – received tailored support, including mental healthcare, to improve their ability to cope. The initiatives also provided 872 individuals with psychosocial support, emergency cash grants and referrals, while promoting longer-term recovery through vocational training and small business support.
An intervention by the Greater Women Initiative for Health and Right (GWIHR) in Nigeria’s Rivers State has enhanced accessibility to services, institutional accountability, and legal protection for female and transgender sex workers, who face systemic discrimination. Thanks to peer-driven human rights education, in 2024 over 2,500 sex workers reported abuses and pursued legal action against perpetrators. GWIHR handled 327 gender-based violence cases and connected nearly 500 survivors to support services.
Improving access for women and girls to essential, specialist, safe and adequate multisectoral services is a core strategic priority of the UN Trust Fund, and one of the three outcome areas in its Strategic Plan 2021-2025.
Between 2021 and 2024, an average of 70% of initiatives supported by the UN Trust Fund per year included strategies to prevent violence against women.
During that period, a total of 218,147 women and girls used specialist services to heal and recover from violence, and 41,615 individual providers improved service for survivors and women and girls at risk.
In Egypt, UN Trust Fund partners addressed growing, critical gaps in services for refugee women and girls primarily from Sudan, Eritrea and South Sudan. In 2024, some 520 young mothers – many of them survivors of violence – received tailored support, including mental healthcare, to improve their ability to cope. The initiatives also provided 872 individuals with psychosocial support, emergency cash grants and referrals, while promoting longer-term recovery through vocational training and small business support.
An intervention by the Greater Women Initiative for Health and Right (GWIHR) in Nigeria’s Rivers State has enhanced accessibility to services, institutional accountability, and legal protection for female and transgender sex workers, who face systemic discrimination. Thanks to peer-driven human rights education, in 2024 over 2,500 sex workers reported abuses and pursued legal action against perpetrators. GWIHR handled 327 gender-based violence cases and connected nearly 500 survivors to support services.