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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
Trust Fund for Victims (TFV)
Out of 12 posts at the Trust Fund Secretariat
(of which seven are approved posts and five
are GTAs), two are vacant. Of the 12 posts, six
are professional posts (five approved posts and
one GTA) and six are general service posts (two
fixed terms positions and four GTAs). Women
occupy half of the filled positions (50% women
and 50% men) at the professional and general
service levels, and overall. This figure represents
a 7% decrease in the number of women in
professional posts with respect to 2010 and a
21% decrease with respect to 2009. The most
senior positions of Executive Director (D1) and
Senior Programme Officer (P5) are occupied
respectively by a man and a woman.
Of the six professional posts at the Trust
Fund Secretariat, five (83%), of which one is a GTA
position, are occupied by nationals from WEOG
countries and one (17%) by a national from the
Africa region.
Out of the 34 TFV projects approved by the
Chambers, of which 18 are in northern Uganda
and 16 in eastern DRC, 28 projects are active.
Of the six inactive projects, two are on-hold
and awaiting proposals (both of these relate
to Uganda), three have been closed and their
beneficiaries transferred to two other projects
(DRC), and one is completed having reached its
closing date (DRC).
The total funds obligated for grants in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and
northern Uganda since 2007/2008, is €5,344,545.
In addition, €600,000 has been allocated to
activities in the Central African Republic (CAR).
The current reserve to supplement orders
for reparations from the Court amounts to
€1,000,000.
The TFV funds available in the Fund’s Euro bank
accounts as of 30 June 2011 are €3,491,210.83.
Last year, the TFV had €3,760,527.15 available as
of the end of June. In 2009, the resources for the
same time period amounted to €3,131,248.
Since the establishment of the Trust Fund
in 2004, a total of 28 countries have made
donations. Germany is the largest State donor
having provided €1,714,800 in contributions.
Finland and the United Kingdom are the next
largest contributors to the Fund. 241
Of the 18 projects approved for Uganda,
three (17%) support women and girls victims/
survivors. Of these, one uses earmarked funds
for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
and two receive common basket funds. Of the
16 projects approved in the DRC, eight (50%) use
earmarked funds for SGBV and work directly
with women and girls victims/survivors.
On 6 May 2011, the Fund issued a three-month
Call for Expressions of Interest in CAR. Activities
in the country are expected to start at the
beginning of 2012 and will focus on victims/
survivors of sexual and gender-based violence,
their families and affected communities.
In response to the €10 million appeal to assist
1.7 million victims of sexual violence under
the jurisdiction of the Court launched by the
Board of Directors of the TFV on 10 September
2008, the Fund received a total of €1,740,000
as earmarked donations from the Principality
of Andorra, Denmark, Finland, Germany and
Norway. With a total of €698,400 donated since
2008, Norway is the largest single contributor to
sexual and gender-based violence initiatives. 242
241 Reviewing Rehabilitation Assistance and Preparing for
Delivering Reparations, Programme Progress <strong>Report</strong>,
Summer 2011, p 35.
242 Ibidem.
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