A/HRC/43/25 Donor Amount (United States dollars) Date of receipt Germany 550 055 5 December 2019 Holy See 2 000 13 February 2019 India 50 000 20 March 2019 Ireland 94 760 12 August 2019 Kuwait 10 000 7 March 2019 Luxembourg 16 411 11 October 2019 Norway 330 632 18 November 2019 Pakistan 3 000 3 July 2019 Peru 1 174 10 January 2019 Peru 1 088 5 June 2019 Saudi Arabia 75 000 23 May 2019 United Arab Emirates 10 000 9 April 2019 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 35 260 12 April 2019 Public donation Total contributions 228 2 355 627 Pledges Italy United States of America 22 050 Pledge 6 550 000 Pledge Total pledges 6 572 050 Total contributions and pledges 8 927 677 * Includes a contribution of US$ 21,888 from the government of Quebec. IV. Fiftieth session of the Board of Trustees 10. The fiftieth session of the Board of Trustees was held in Geneva from 7 to 11 October 2019. The Board examined proposals for funding and made recommendations on grants to be awarded to beneficiary organizations for activities to be implemented in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2020. 11. The amount available for distribution to projects was calculated after deducting programme support costs, the operating cash reserve and expected expenditures for nongrant activities. 12. At the fiftieth session, the Board reviewed a total of 226 admissible project proposals received under the call for applications for 2020, aimed at providing direct assistance to victims of torture and their families, as well as – to a lesser extent – training and capacity-building in the field of rehabilitation, amounting to a total request of $13,490,899. 13. In line with the grant-making procedure set out at its forty-fifth session (A/72/278, paras. 5–8), the Board recommended that $7,363,850 be awarded, for a total of 172 projects to be implemented in 2020 in 78 countries (for an average grant size of $42,865). Of those projects, 165 are for the delivery of direct assistance services to victims of torture ($7,119,500), and 7 are for training and capacity-building projects ($244,350) aimed at strengthening the capacity of the beneficiary organizations to deliver such services. With the vital financial assistance of the Fund, it is expected that nearly 40,565 victims and their families worldwide will have access to rehabilitation and other forms of concrete assistance in the course of 2020. 4