A/HRC/32/51 Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 A. Background .............................................................................................................................. 3 B. Mandate ................................................................................................................................... 3 Activities and results of the Voluntary Fund and the Board of Trustees .......................................... 4 A Forty-second session (Geneva) ................................................................................................ 4 B. Forty-second session (Ukraine) ............................................................................................... 6 Technical cooperation ...................................................................................................................... 8 A. Technical cooperation to reflect national development objectives .......................................... 8 B. Synergy and partnerships with other United Nations entities .................................................. 11 C. Measuring results of technical cooperation, and the response of the Office of the High Commissioner .......................................................................................................... 12 Main findings, challenges identified and recommendations .................................................... 13 Status of funding and donors ............................................................................................................ 13 I. Voluntary Fund and expenditure trends: 2008 to 2015 ................................................................... 15 II. Voluntary Fund cost plan and expenditure: 2015 ............................................................................. 16 III. Financial status of the Voluntary Fund: 2015 .................................................................................. 17 IV. List of donors and contributors: 2015 .............................................................................................. 18 II. III. D. IV. Annexes 2