A/HRC/37/20 Donor Amount (United States dollars) Date of receipt Italy 32 017 28 March 2017 Italy 11 848 10 December 2017 Kuwait 10 000 1 April 2017 Liechtenstein 25 100 9 May 2017 Luxembourg 16 688 24 October 2017 Norway Peru 100 876 4 August 2017 1 482 23 March 2017 Saudi Arabia 75 000 South Africa 5 536 30 March 2017 Sri Lanka 5 000 19 January 2017 Switzerland United States of America Total contributions and pledges 203 252 6 550 000 26 May 2017 8 December 2017 24 October 2017 8 336 936 IV. Forty-sixth session of the Board of Trustees 10. The forty-sixth session of the Board was held in Geneva from 30 October to 3 November 2017. The Board examined applications for funding and made recommendations on grants to be awarded to beneficiary organizations for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2018. 11. The amount available for distribution to projects was calculated after deducting programme support costs, the operating cash reserve and the expected expenditure for nongrant activities from the total amount of contributions received since the forty-fourth session of the Board, held in October 2016. 12. At the forty-sixth session, the Board reviewed a total of 218 admissible project proposals aimed at providing direct assistance to victims of torture and their families and — to a lesser extent — training and capacity-building in the field of rehabilitation. Applicants requested a total of $13,987,691. 13. In line with the grant-making procedure set out at its forty-fifth session (see A/72/278, paras. 5–8), the Board recommended awards for a total of 166 projects in 78 countries. The awards for the recommended projects totalled $7,221,000, for an average of $44,000 each. Of the 166 projects, 159 are for the delivery of direct assistance to victims of torture and 7 are for strengthening the capacity of the beneficiary organizations to deliver such services. With the vital financial assistance of the Fund, nearly 40,000 victims and their families worldwide should have access to rehabilitation in the course of 2018. 14. Project proposals were reviewed on a competitive basis, taking into account the merit and documented needs of each proposal, the degree to which it complemented other initiatives and the number of years of continuous support by the Fund to the same project. 15. The Board also recommended setting aside an additional $300,000 to respond to emergency assistance requests that may be received in 2018 through the intersessional procedure of the Fund. 16. In 2017, thanks to its enhanced emergency procedure, the Fund was able to provide financial support in the amount of $156,500 for the immediate relief of victims of torture. Grants under the emergency procedure were awarded to support vital rehabilitation services in Argentina, France, Hungary, Italy and the Russian Federation. 17. At its forty-sixth session, the Board also recommended that the secretariat undertake a mapping exercise of grant-making entities that feature prominently in the funding landscape for direct assistance to victims of torture, to be presented at the Board’s next policy session, in April 2018. That exercise would make it possible to identify comparative 4