A/HRC/34/74 Contents Page I. II. III. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 A. Background .............................................................................................................................. 3 B. Mandate ................................................................................................................................... 3 Activities of the Voluntary Fund and the Board of Trustees ............................................................ 4 A. Forty-third session (Guatemala) .............................................................................................. 5 B. Forty-third session (general) ................................................................................................... 8 Technical cooperation ...................................................................................................................... 9 A. Technical cooperation to support implementation of and follow-up on recommendations by human rights mechanisms ....................................................................................................... 9 B. Synergy and partnerships with other United Nations entities .................................................. 13 C. Measuring results of technical cooperation, and the response of the Office of the High Commissioner .......................................................................................................... 13 Main findings, challenges and recommendations .................................................................... 13 Status of funding and donors ............................................................................................................ 14 I. Contributions to the Voluntary Fund and expenditure trends (2008-2016)...................................... 16 II. Voluntary Fund cost plan and expenditure (2016) ........................................................................... 17 III. Financial status of the Voluntary Fund (2016) ................................................................................. 18 IV. Donors and contributors (2016) ....................................................................................................... 19 D. IV. Annexes 2