The UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women was established by General Assembly Resolution 50/166 in 1996 and is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

The Trust Fund is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to combat violence. With grants now ranging from $300,000 to $1 million dollars, trust fund projects conduct public education and awareness campaigns, build coalitions, involve law-enforcement, judicial and government agencies, train educators, healthcare personnel and police officials to respond to and prevent violence.

Many projects strive to alter community attitudes and involve men as allies.

Projects funded in 2007: 

Help & Shelter, Guyana 
Project Title: Public Education & Advocacy to Reduce Gender-Based Violence 
Description: The project aims to strengthen the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act and national policy on Domestic Violence by the police and the judicial system, in particular to increase the utilization of protection orders. It will also advocate for the amendment of the Sexual Offences Act, which is substantively and procedurally inadequate to prevent and punish sexual abuse.

The project will mainly be implemented by training police, providing legal assistance for victims and undertaking advocacy with high-level judges, magistrates and policy-makers. It further includes a national public education and awareness campaign as well as building and strengthening partnerships with governmental agencies and NGOs working on gender-based violence. Integral to the project will be activities to mark International Women's Day and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. 

Women's Media Watch and Bureau of Women's Affairs
- Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Jamaica 
Description: To support the implementation of Jamaica's Domestic Violence Act (1996) and international women's rights conventions, including the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém do Para Convention), the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination (CEDAW), the Bureau of Gender Affairs will sensitize judges and magistrates to international women's rights conventions and train government and private sector employees on the national policy to effectively respond to sexual harassment in their workplaces.

The project will also produce and disseminate brochures for wide distribution on several forms of gender-based violence, such as sexual harassment, domestic violence, rape, incest and trafficking in persons. Women's Media Watch will train journalists, teachers, counsellors, trainers and community leaders on national and international laws and policies addressing violence against women and work to reduce tolerance of violence against women within these target groups.

Training materials on violence against women will be produced, and a public education and awareness raising campaign on gender and violence will be conducted through the media and other public forums.