A/HRC/15/38 Contents Page I. Introduction............................................................................................................. 1–2 3 II. Mandate of the Fund ............................................................................................... 3–9 3 III. Administration of the Fund, mandate and composition of the Board of Trustees... 10–13 4 IV. Sessions of the Board of Trustees. .......................................................................... 14–17 5 V. Intersessional decision-making ............................................................................... 18–19 5 VI. Financial status of the Fund .................................................................................... 20–22 6 VII. Beneficiaries of the Fund ........................................................................................ 23–28 7 VIII. Methods of work and grants cycle .......................................................................... 29–34 8 IX. Capacity-building and training................................................................................ 35–37 9 X. Proposed expansion of the mandate to cover sessions of the treaty bodies............. 38–48 9 XI. Proposed expansion of the mandate to cover sessions of the Human Rights Council............................................................................................ 49–56 11 Concluding remarks ................................................................................................ 57–61 13 XII. 2 Paragraphs