A/HRC/34/17 Contributions and pledges received from 1 January to 5 December 2016 Donor Amount (United States dollars) Date of receipt Contributions Andorra 11 099 29 July 2016 Argentina 15 000 1 March 2016 Austria 21 231 1 December 2016 Canada 44 148 17 February 2016 Chile 5 000 6 May 2016 447 890 16 March 2016 22 676 31 May 2016 Germany 445 931 207 609 7 June 2016 21 November 2016 Holy See 2 000 17 October 2016 India 25 000 15 January 2016 Ireland 39 459 19 April 2016 Kuwait 10 000 23 February 2016 Liechtenstein 25 075 8 March 2016 Luxembourg 16 760 23 August 2016 Norway 95 270 20 June 2016 1 470 3 August 2016 75 000 3 June 2016 10 000 25 February 2016 5 696 312 24 October 2016 Denmark France Peru Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates United States of America Total contributions 7 216 930 Pledges Mexico Switzerland United States of America Total pledges 10 000 24 May 2016 202 840 10 November 2016 6 550 000 21 September 2016 6 762 840 IV. Forty-fourth session of the Board of Trustees 10. The forty-fourth session of the Board was held in Geneva from 3 to 7 October 2016. The Board examined applications for funding and made recommendations on grants to be awarded to beneficiary organizations for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2017. 11. The amount available for distribution to projects was calculated after deducting programme support costs, the operating cash reserve and the expenditure for non-grant activities from the total amount of contributions received since the forty-second session of the Board, held in October 2015. 12. At the forty-fourth session, the Board, with the assistance of the secretariat, reviewed a total of 220 admissible project applications aimed at providing direct assistance 4