A/HRC/37/79 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 31 January 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session 26 February–23 March 2018 Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Report of the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights* Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 18/18, in which the Council invited the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights to present a comprehensive report on the Board’s work on an annual basis, starting from the twentieth session of the Council. Pursuant to Council resolution 33/28, the present report is submitted to the Council at its thirty-seventh session, in March 2018, instead of at its June session, as originally requested by the Council in resolution 18/18. It provides an update on the work of the Board of Trustees of the Fund since the previous report of the Chair of the Board (A/HRC/34/74). * The annexes to the present report are circulated as received. GE.18-01439(E) 