A/HRC/22/22 for the period 2011-2012, the secretariat for the Special Fund conducted an extensive evaluation of those 25 projects, taking into consideration the outcome of informal consultations with members of the Subcommittee, in February 2012. The evaluation process has been done in close collaboration with OHCHR field presences, and field visits to eligible applicants have been conducted by OHCHR or United Nations Development Programme staff. 7. In the evaluation of projects, priority consideration was given to projects submitted by States parties and national preventive mechanisms. In those cases in which a project was submitted by a non-governmental organization, particular attention was paid to the implementation of the project in collaboration and partnership with States parties and national preventive mechanisms. In some cases, applicants were encouraged to implement the projects with the national preventive mechanism. 8. Nine projects encompassing a wide range of activities, in accordance with the Subcommittee recommendations, that address the prevention of torture in Benin, Honduras, Maldives, Mexico and Paraguay, were approved and grants awarded. The total amount of grants awarded was $166,977. Please refer to the annex for further information on the approved projects. 9. The remaining 16 projects were rejected by the Grants Committee for not meeting the thematic selection criteria established by the guidelines for applications for the period 2011-2012. E. Call for applications 2013 10. A new call for applications to the Special Fund was published on 15 August 2012 and closed on 15 October 2012. For this call, thematic priorities per country were identified by the Subcommittee during its seventeenth session, held in Geneva from 18 to 22 June 2012. In addition, projects addressing any other specific recommendation in the visit reports that detailed a pressing and compelling need could be considered. 11. Under this call, eligible projects were to be aimed at implementing recommendations made by the Subcommittee after a visit to a State party, provided those recommendations were contained in a report that had become public by the request of the State party. Therefore, the countries able to respond to this call were: Benin, Brazil, Honduras, Maldives, Mexico, Paraguay and Sweden. 12. As in the previous cycle, applications could be submitted by States parties and national preventive mechanisms. In addition, applications could be submitted by national human rights institutions, if compliant with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles), and nongovernmental organizations, if the proposed projects were to be implemented in cooperation with States parties and/or national preventive mechanisms. 13. Applicants could request grants of up to $50,000 for project activities to be implemented between 1 January and 31 December 2013. OHCHR, as fund manager, reserves the right to earmark part of a grant to specific budget lines. 14. A total of 34 applications were received, out of which 4 were considered inadmissible under the geographic eligibility criteria (that is, projects aiming at the implementation of recommendations made by the Subcommittee following a visit to a State party, provided those recommendations are contained in a report that has become public by the request of the State party). The 30 applications deemed admissible (those submitted within the deadline and in which the geographic eligibility criteria were met) concern six of 3