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11. Also urges States to ensure the systematic collection and analysis of data
on violence against women, including with the involvement of national statistical
offices and, where appropriate, in partnership with other actors, taking note of the
World Health Organization multi-country study on women’s health and domestic
violence against women and its recommendation to enhance capacity and establish
systems for data collection to monitor violence against women;
12. Urges the United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes and the
specialized agencies, and invites the Bretton Woods institutions, in accordance with
their mandates, to support, upon request and within existing resources, the
strengthening of national capacities and efforts on the collection, processing and
dissemination of data, including data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant
information, for their possible use for legislative, policy and programme
development and in the national plans of action against all forms of violence against
women;
13. Notes the work carried out for the elimination of all forms of violence
against women by relevant United Nations bodies, entities, funds and programmes
and relevant specialized agencies, including those responsible for the promotion of
gender equality and women’s rights, and urges them and invites the Bretton Woods
institutions:
(a) To enhance the coordination of and intensify their efforts to eliminate all
forms of violence against women and girls in a more systematic, comprehensive and
sustained way, inter alia, through the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender
Equality supported by the newly established Task Force on Violence against
Women, in close collaboration with relevant civil society, including
non-governmental organizations;
(b) To enhance coordination in a more systematic, comprehensive and
sustained way of their assistance to States in their efforts to eliminate all forms of
violence against women, including in the development or implementation of
national action plans and, where appropriate, national development plans, including
poverty reduction strategies where they exist, and programme-based and sector-wide
approaches and in close collaboration with relevant civil society, including
non-governmental organizations;
14. Calls upon the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality to
consider ways and means to enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations Trust
Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women as a system-wide
funding mechanism for preventing and redressing all forms of violence against
women and girls;
15. Strongly encourages States to increase significantly their voluntary
financial support for activities related to preventing and eliminating all forms of
violence against women, the empowerment of women and gender equality carried
out by the specialized agencies and the United Nations funds and programmes,
including the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate
Violence against Women;
16. Stresses that within the United Nations system adequate resources should
be assigned to those bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes
responsible for the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and to efforts
throughout the United Nations system to eliminate violence against women and
girls;
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