A/HRC/44/18 Income Interest and miscellaneous income Total income 20 926.50 318 390.18 Expenditure Staff costs Other personnel costs (consultants’ fees and travel) Staff travel Travel of representatives/participants to meetings and seminars Contractual services General operating and other direct costs Equipment, vehicles and furniture 42 240.11 – 3 842.54 179 496.78 2 600.00 26 692.81 – Grants out (<$50,000) and fellowships 19 445.72 Programme support (indirect) costs 35 244.26 Total expenditure Adjustments to prior year expenditure (liquidation of commitments) Net excess (shortfall) of income over expenditure for the period Opening balance on 1 January 2019 309 562.22 – 8 827.96 904 638.73 Other adjustments (prior period) – Unpaid pledges – Total fund balance as at 31 December 2019 913 466.69 6. Since the establishment of the fund, 19 countries have made financial contributions. China has contributed a total of $250,000.00, of which $150,000.00 was pledged in 2018 and received in 2019. Furthermore, in 2019, for the first time, an intergovernmental organization made a contribution to the fund: the International Organization of la Francophonie contributed $47,167.01. 7. Since the fund has not enjoyed a predictable pattern of income, substantial resources are systematically kept as a reserve for future activities; the secretariat of the fund has approved all requests, in line with the fund’s terms of reference, to enable participation in the universal periodic review. III. Activities A. Travel to meetings 8. Under the terms of reference of the fund, financial support is made available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to cover travel to Geneva by one official government representative in order to participate: (a) In sessions of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review during which the representative’s country is considered; (b) In plenary sessions of the Human Rights Council during which the outcome of the review of the representative’s country is adopted. 9. The fund also provides for the travel of official representatives (one per delegation) of developing countries, in particular least developed countries, that are members of the Human Rights Council and do not have a permanent mission in Geneva, to act as rapporteurs (namely, as members of the troika). 3