A/HRC/10/54 page 14 C. Support of the Office for international initiatives 1. International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights Twentieth session 54. As the secretariat of the International Coordinating Committee and its subcommittee on accreditation, OHCHR provided substantive support to and facilitated the holding of the twentieth session of the Committee in Geneva from 14 to 18 April 2008. The meeting focused on issues relating to functions, structure, governance and financing of the Committee, deciding that the Committee would be incorporated under Swiss law. The 16 A-status national human rights institutions that are voting members representing the four regions of the Committee will make up the Committee Bureau. The meeting also agreed that an annual meeting would be held for the organization and discussion of thematic matters. The holding of international conferences would be maintained. An annual membership fee will also be levied. 55. The meeting also focused on substantive issues, such as the engagement of national human rights institutions in the international human rights system, their role in business, poverty reduction and disability, and the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and activities of human rights institutions in this context. In addition, the four regional groups presented their activities at the plenary session. Incorporation 56. On 30 July 2008, the Committee held a constitutive assembly for the incorporation of the Committee as an association under Swiss law. OHCHR provided input in the drafting of the statute of incorporation and facilitated the incorporation process. Twenty-first session 57. As the secretariat of the Committee and its subcommittee on accreditation, OHCHR provided substantive support to and facilitated the holding of the Committee’s twenty-first session in Nairobi on 21 November 2008, prior to the ninth International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions. 58. The meeting focused on issues relating to the governance and funding of the Committee and the establishment of thematic working groups. The meeting adopted the revised statute of the Committee (see annex II), with recommendations for further development of the statute, and agreed on an annual subscription fee of 3,200 euros for A-status institutions. The meeting also adopted a number of resolutions on membership and sustainable funding, including that each A-status accredited institution would be a voting member of the incorporated Committee, subject to an annual subscription; and each B-status accredited institution would be accepted as a non-voting member of the incorporated Committee. The next institutional meeting of the Committee will be held the week of 23 March 2009, in Geneva. 59. The meeting agreed on the establishment of thematic working groups within the Committee: a working group on strategic participation of national human rights institutions in